Anne Graham, Passage

Role: Public Art Assistant Curator
Development: Sydney Sculpture Walk, Sydney CBD, Royal Botanic Gardens and The Domain
Program / Client: City Art for the City of Sydney

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.

Anne Graham's Passage in Martin Place traces the actual foot print of two Georgian houses that stood at the site, with the mist elements forming the walls and the beautiful bronze reflection bowl fountains to represent the location of the washrooms, connecting the artwork to the nearby Tank Stream from where the water would be collected. Interested in the general infrastructure and workings of a city as a metaphor for the human body, the artist portrays this in the rise and fall of the mist and water as though the artwork were breathing.

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

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