I really liked Jane Gillings’ Dream House in a previous Sculpture By The Sea.
Read more about her here (official site) and on her own blog.
Here’s a fun piece by Ian Swift who lives in Katoomba in the Blue Mountains. Have a lok at some of his other works and a bit about him here. Swift uses a lot of found objects in his art.
In browsing that site I found that he had an exhibition on Sydney’s Ocean Baths, which certainly fascinate me. So I’ve commissioned a local resident to get me a copy of the catalogue.
The Sydney Entertainment Centre is located on Harbour Street, in the inner city suburb of Haymarket. It was opened in 1983 on the former site of the former Fruit and Vegetable Markets, which were part of Paddy’s Markets. It is one of Sydney’s larger concert venues, which can accommodate over 13,000 people. Although this entertainment centre is less than thirty years old, there are plans to demolish it and replace it with a new convention centre.
Ballast Point Park at Birchgrove is located on the site of a former oil refinery. Artefacts from the demolished buildings and those discovered during redevelopmen of the site are displayed in the centre of the park in these marble and glass display cases.
The Australian Hall on Elizabeth Street is a heritage building built in the Federation Romanesque architectural style. It was erected between 1910 and 1913 as a club for German migrants, known as the Concordia. The Knights of the Southern Cross, a right-wing Catholic fraternal lay group, purchased it in 1920 and constructed the Australian Hall in the building. They sold it in 1979 to the Hellenic Club and Greek Cypriots used it as the Cyprus Hellene Club. This is the site of the first national Aboriginal civil rights gathering convened by the Aborigines Progressive Association and held in 1938, known as the “Day of Mourning”. The building was purchased in 1999 by the Metropolitan Aboriginal Association Incorporated and refurbished, with the hall restored to its 1938 state. It is the first non-Aboriginal structure to be recognised in Australia as an Aboriginal heritage site. NAIDOC week, which this year runs from 3rd July to 11th July, is a celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and an opportunity to recognise the contributions of Indigenous Australians in various fields.
In the inner southern suburb of St Peters is a new-ish park. It is built on a former brick pit and waster disposal site. It’s not yet 20 years old, and looking good.
In the southern end, there’s this impressive wetland area.