Amanda was the City of Sydney Assistant Curator of Public Art for the Sydney Sculpture Walk program and other new artworks being commissioned as major City of Sydney initiatives in the lead up to the 2000 Olympic Games and 2001 Centenary of Federation.

Fiona Hall's Folly for Mrs Macquarie is installed in the Royal Botanic Gardens at the site overlooking the harbour the artwork where a sketch from the period indicates Mrs Macquaire had a Neo-Classical folly constructed. This contemporary folly also offers a place to sit and contemplate the history of colonisation. Barbed wire referenced in the iron-work alludes to that used by the British to carve up the land for farming, and the false ceiling is made up of cast bones of indigenous animals that would have inhabited the site. The Norfolk Pine fronds of the dome refer to the unsuitability of this indigenous species to be used for ship masts despite the hope that it may prove useful.

The Sydney Sculpture Walk consists of ten permanent public artworks by international and Australian artists throughout Sydney's CBD, East Circular Quay, the Royal Botanic Gardens and The Domain. Amanda worked closely with esteemed Curator, Sally Couacaud and each of the artists to develop, project manage and realise the public art program that address historical and cultural aspects of the many high profile and beautiful sites throughout the CBD in which they are housed.

Images: City of Sydney