Fash Trap Bridge Sculpture, Images 1 and 2

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November 2007 Volume 43 No. 9

INSIDE

President’s Message 2 .

Exchange Rates 3 p ul | C A rt

Techno Tip 4 e e

Woodfiring in Australia 5 in Au st r al la

Book Review 6

Robert Barron 7 You may have read articles written by Sheila Morissette in recent newsletters about the
Holiday Sales 9 Claynadians trip to Austraha. This article will describe the many and varied pubke art
Clay Lines 11 pieces we viewed there, primarily in Melbourne and Sydney.

Australia invests heavily in the arts and the city of Melbourne 1s especially
impressive with its abundance of gigantic public art projects. Many of these
large stainless steel sculptures are located in the Docklands Park Harbour
Esplanade and decorate several of the bridges that span the harbour. A
particular favourite is shown here (Images 1 & 2.) This structure represents
the aboriginal people’s traditional fish trap.

The Travellers reflects the story of Australian migration. Stainless steel
sculptures represent the people who entered Melbourne over the Sandridge
Bridge. (Images 3 & 4)

Cow Up A Tree 1s a large sculpture inspired by a violent flood which swept
cattle into trees in Gippsland, Victoria. (Image 5)

Reed Vessel by Virginia King, 2004, 1s a huge boat-shaped stainless steel
sculpture on top of two A-frame walls that people can walk through. The
walls have snippets of poetry and cascades of running water that produce

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steam when they hit the pond. (Image 6)

100 Great Australian Entertainers of the Past Century, (cluding
Russell Crowe, Crocodile Dundee and Dame Edna), 1s a gigantic
mosaic community public art project in the Docklands area of
Melbourne. (Images 7 and 8)

There were many more exciting public art pieces.

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Australian aboriginal art 1s unique and highly symbolic and we
enjoyed visiting many galleries devoted exclusively to native art

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