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.

Japanese artist Kimio Tsuchiya's Memory is Creation Without End is a large spiral sculptural installation of found remnants of stonemasonry from Sydney’s demolished buildings. Weathered and darkened with age, the sandstone is returned to the site at this once important quarry for Sydney’s early colonial buildings, in order to endow the stone with new meaning and memory in a cyclical symbol of the connection between past, present and future. Despite appearing to emerge from deep within the ground like a ruin, Tarpeian Way is today but a thin veneer of earth above the Sydney Harbour Tunnel.

The Sydney Sculpture Walk consists of ten public artworks by international and Australian artists throughout Sydney's CBD, East Circular Quay, the Royal Botanic Gardens and The Domain. Each artwork was site-specific, addressing the historical and cultural aspects of its location and contributing to an appreciation and understanding of the local environment, history and character. As Assistant Curator Amanda worked closely with esteemed Curator of the Sydney Sculpture Walk, Sally Couacaud, and each of the artists to develop, project manage and realise the public art program housed in many high profile and beautiful sites throughout the CBD.

Images: City of Sydney