I think this may have been my favourite piece this year. (Unfortunately, I’m not all that happy with the photos). As this is just past sunrise, and facing east, the golden tinge is the sun’s rays. I have seen photos of this piece at other times of day when it is almost transparent. I love that idea, and it would be fabulous to see it at different times of day, in different lights. It would be afabulous permanent installation, and I hope it finds a suitable, public, home somewhere.
Ken Unsworth is one of Australia’s most recognised sculptors and installation artists. One of his works, Stones Against The Sky has had a controversial presence in Sydney, often derided as “poo on sticks”. I quite like it.
One of my favourite Unsworth workd is Suspended stone circle II. It was on display at the Art Gallery of NSW for some years.
This work won the Children’s Choice award at 2011 Sculpture By The Sea.
The historic Moore Stairs link Macquarie Street with the Circular Quay foreshore, between two blocks of Bennelong Apartments. “Hopscotch” by Germany’s Fiona Venn and Reinhard Germar was an interactive installation for the Vivid Sydney festival. People were able to hop up and down the stairs and create a rainbow at night that displayed the full colour spectrum of light from violet blue to deep red. Precise switching and the latest sensor technology saved energy by providing light only where it was needed but also proved a challenge to photograph as many colours as possible.
This interactive lighting installation was located in First Fleet Park at The Rocks, near Circular Quay, during the Vivid Sydney festival. “Immersion” was created by Australia’s Martin Bevz and Kathryn Clifton. People were able to move around the LED tube lighting, reflecting their movement through the installation via a live video relay of still and dynamic images.
This artwork was hung above a walkway at Circular Quay during the Vivid Sydney festival. The spatial installation takes the theme of this yea’s festival “Let there be Light” to hark back to the beginning of time, before city light pollution dimmed our view of scattered stars. “Crystallized” was created by Andrew Daly and Katharine Fife from 4000 edge-lit acrylic, recyclable rods like a canopy of glittering stalactites in a cave. The programmed LEDs gave a fluctuating colourful abstraction of a starry night sky that you could wander beneath.