Sculpture trail

The brief for this project came from an external consultant's report on developing on a history trail for the area. The consultants had suggested over 25 different historical markers for the popular suburb, and from the beginning the council wanted an 'Interpretive Sculptural Elements Trail'. The council had two key agendas with the artwork. The first was to use a marked trail to show the public that there are a string of public, river front spaces throughout Battery Point and to reveal the complex layers that make up the area. It is now a gentrified suburb, but was once highly industrialised and a slum, and much of it was scheduled for demolition until community groups fought for its retention in the latter half of the 20th century. The s... More