A play on the location and meaning of Emerald Hill, this artwork questions civic infrastructure markers.
Im your crazy looking thing in Clarendon Street that the kids love to
stop and see...Im viewed from afar as you walk along the street. You
wonder what i may possibly be as you approach from a distance and
then, as you approach the corner, you see me waving to the town
hall... Stand inside and look up to see my spikes twinkling with light.
EMERALD HILL SCULPTURE
Triggering curiosity and the imagination, the spikey sculpture challenges
our perceptions of heritage and setting, context and formal architectural
language. The concept is primarily aimed to trigger the immagination of
children and pedestrains who use Clarendon Street.
Year
2022
Scope
Public Art
Location
South Melbourne
Status
Short listed
Team / Collaborators
Matt Drysdale, Colin Wilson, Kesinee Wattanaveerachai, Sumanee Wuttisin
Public Art
Urban Design
Palce Making
Typology
Client
Triggering curiosity and the imagination, the spikey sculpture challenges our perceptions of heritage and setting, context and formal architectural language.
The concept is primarily aimed to trigger the immagination of children and pedestrains who use Clarendon Street.
There are 3 distinct scales of interaction for the site and sculpture location.
The sculpture is conceived as responding to these scales and tobe legible along Clarendon Street and also the Bank Street axis linking back to the Shrine.
Conceived as a folly that builds on the concept of the town hall as being a place of meeting and congregation, the form creates a colourful node during the day and a beacon at night.
