Echoes From The North Sculpture

Public Art : Echoes From The North Sculpture

Sculptor : © Augustine Dall'Ava

Date : 2005

Description : Robert Nelson, from The Age, described Augustine Dall'Ava's work as "often floating at the extremity of architectonic elements". Personally, when I first stumbled across the sculpture, I thought it looked like something out of a children's toy tool box (brightly colored spanners etc) and oddly out of place on such a busy street. But everytime I passed it, a strange thing happened, I began to like it. A bold, brightly coloured sculpture is just what the rather drab street needed, reminding passerbys of the beautiful colours and hues of the northern land. The three mild steel/stainess steel sculptures, of varying sizes, feature unusual shapes (a cube and a flame), balancing, sometimes precariously, from atop their colorful columns. The colors are symbolic of the landscape and environment of Queensland; the metallic reds, blues and yellows reflect the irridescent colors of the tropical fish of the Great Barrier Reef, the green the rainforests, the white the beautiful beaches, blue the water and yellow the sun. As night falls and long shadows are cast on the city, the sculpture take on a more interesting form. I just can't understand why the sculpture was placed next to a hideous light pole, a rubbish bin and a  street sign, killing the ambience. Oh, and I still don't know why the cube has little holes in it, all I keep thinking of is, tea sprainer.

Location : On the footpath outside Queens Plaza, Edward Street, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

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History of the Echoes From The North sculpture : The Echoes From the North sculpture was originally commissioned by the Gandel Retail Management in 2004, but since then, the artwork has been gifted to the City of Brisbane, and now is part of the city’s cultural heritage.

A little observation : Don't you think the Echoes From the North sculpture, looks a little like the Trickle, Flow and Fall sculpture in Midland, Western Australia ?

       Trickle Flow and Fall         Echoes From The North

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