Amanda was engaged by Landcom to curate public artworks for Landcom's Northwest Places, an enormous area surrounding the new Sydney Metro Northwest stations spanning over twenty five kilometers.

Nadia Hernandez’s artwork Everything Comes Alive is part of the second iteration of the Sydney Metro Northwest Places public art program curated by Amanda. The one hundred and fifty meter long artwork is inspired by local food and produce from the Parklea Markets, as the artist recalled wandering her hometown local market in Venezuela as a child and the rich imagination these experiences inspired. The artwork invokes North Sydney’s multi-cultural communities and their connection through food in order to depict a positive and socially sustainable future.

For Amanda’s second iteration of the public art program, seven artists were engaged to create large scale art commissions, each between one hundred and three hundred meters long surrounding the Metro stations designed by Hassell. Maddison Gibbs, Nadia Hernandez, Bradley Eastman aka Beastman, Tina Barahanos, Alexandra Byrne, Leanne Watson and Ian Mutch were selected from a long list of international and Australian artists. Their art responds to a brief asking them to create memorable, distinct, powerful, contemporary and bold artworks that activate and announce Northwest Places.

Images: Landcom