Tag: Sculpture

  • Tale of a mermaid

    The little girls who helped their father build her are young women now. Time has rusted away her marmaid tail but she still has pert Madonna breasts. She’s growing old gracefully, with a garland of yellow flowers blooming, crown-like around her head in the spring. Once apon a time she had the letterbox suspended above…

  • Suspended sphere

    Sadly I don’t know the name of the artist who created this beautiful sphere suspended outside the Australian National Gallery in Canberra.

  • Sculpture, the Bride and the Photographer

        James Turrell, Skyspace Within Without 2010, Sculpture Garden, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

  • North Sydney Public Art Trail

        HARBOUR CYCLES, Alfred Street, Bradfield Park North, Milsons Point “Harbour Cycles acknowledges North Sydney’s role in the maritime and industrial heritage of the Harbour which was once one of the busiest ports in the world. It speaks of its proximity to the foreshore with images taken from maritime machinery, water turbulence, rivets and…

  • North Sydney Public Art Trail

      FOXIE, Alfred Street, Bradfield Park North, Milsons Point A favourite landmark with local residents and group walking tours is Clary Akon’s Foxie – a humble bronze statue that stands on top of Broomfield Memorial Drinking Fountain in the rockery garden at Bradfield Park North. The diminutive sculpture was installed in 2007 atop the original…