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.

First Nations artist Leanne Watson with Tina Barahanos and Alexandra Byrne provided Casuarinas and Black Cockatoos for the second iteration of Sydney Metro Northwest Places public art program. The artwork shares and incorporates important First Nation’s Darug / Dharug and English words about the natural Dharug environment and about feeling good in a place, superimposed over Casuarina needles and leaf shadows. In the artists’ words, “Black Cockatoos fly overhead. For Darug/Dharug people, trees are recognised as people and maintain a unifying presence in the landscape, holding and sharing information about the places we all live. With a deep love and respect for their Darug environment the words help them grow with the community.”

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