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Little is known about the origins of this domed drinking fountain. It bears Ottoman-style motifs and no longer carries its original taps. Early photographs show that a very similar fountain was once positioned on Collins Street, but there is no other evidence to confirm it is the same fountain. It was suggested that this fountain be relocated to Queen Victoria Gardens, where it would serve as a memorial to Cookie, a resident and much-loved black swan. But a new memorial fountain to Cookie was erected in Alexandra Gardens in 1974.
","object_type":"Drinking Fountain","art_date":"c1936","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.821240390015305","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Parks Services Branch","makers":"Unknown","property":"Queen Victoria Gardens","classification":"Memorials","title":"Domed Drinking Fountain"},{"_id":2,"geo_point_2d":"-37.819570574442366, 144.97182443644516","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.97182443644516, -37.819570574442366], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Alexandra Park","latitude":"144.97182443644516","asset_id":"1086579","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Also known as Cookie Memorial Drinking Fountain. This cube-shaped, bluestone drinking fountain produced in diagonally cut stone features a bronze plaque with a raised image of Cookie (a black swan) and dedicatory inscription.
Raymond Ewers was born in Wyalong, NSW, and studied sculpture at RMIT, Melbourne. In 1974 he produced this fountain in memory of a black swan named Cookie, which frequented the Alexandra Gardens for many years and was well known to the public and accidentally killed on 16th May, 1972.
","object_type":"Memorial Drinking Fountain","art_date":"1974","inscription":"Plaque: In memory of Cookie / the black swan, / who lived in these gardens / from 1967-1973","longitude":"-37.819570574442366","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Parks Services Branch","makers":"EWERS, Raymond B.","property":"Alexandra Park","classification":"Memorials","title":"Black Swan Memorial Drinking Fountain"},{"_id":3,"geo_point_2d":"-37.81002307787697, 144.97364211216924","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.97364211216924, -37.81002307787697], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Parliament Reserve","latitude":"144.97364211216924","asset_id":"1282595","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Bronze memorial statue of Pastor Sir Doug Nicholls and Lady Gladys Nicholls
Sculptor Louis Laumen's intention with these life-size bronze figures was to create a literal representation of his subjects' place in public life, acknowledging them as great catalysts for social change. Sir Doug steps forward in conversation and Lady Gladys stands with him. In the bluestone paving below, Ngarra Murray's etching incorporates the totems Bigarrumdja the Emu and Waa the Crow with diamond-shaped markings. These traditional symbols mark her great-grandparents' connection to country. The position of the statue is significant, located between the two key locales of Sir Doug work, Fitzroy and state parliament.
Sir Doug Nicholls was the pastor of Australia's first Aboriginal Church of Christ, in Fitzroy, Melbourne, and in 1957 became a field officer for the Aboriginal Advancement League. His commitment to Indigenous welfare made him a natural representative for Aboriginal people, and he was awarded a MBE for his efforts in 1957. He worked as a lay preacher at the Gore Street Mission Centre from 1935, but he really began working with disadvantaged Aboriginal people in the early 1940s through the Aboriginal Advancement League. In 1968, he was awarded an OBE for his work and became a member of the new Victorian Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs. In 1972, he was the first Aboriginal person to be knighted, and four years later he became the governor of South Australia.
Like her husband, Gladys Nicholls was born at Cummeragunga Aboriginal station in NSW. After the death of her first husband, Howard Nicholls, in 1942, Gladys married his brother Doug. She was committed to working towards the welfare of the underprivileged, as well as for the rights of women. Gladys was a charity worker and fundraiser, and among other achievements became secretary of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women's Council and the Victorian state president in the 1970s.
Together the Nicholls were prominent campaigners for Indigenous rights and justice, and this memorial statue, first proposed by the Department of Justice and keenly supported by the Nicholls' family, recognises this. It is the first memorial sculpture in Melbourne dedicated to Aboriginal leaders, and its presence strengthens the visibility of Indigenous people and cultural diversity in Melbourne.
","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"c2007","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.81002307787697","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"Laumen, Louis; Murray, Ngarra","property":"Parliament Reserve","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Pastor Sir Doug Nicholls and Lady Gladys Nicholls"},{"_id":4,"geo_point_2d":"-37.811543500644426, 144.9829508862324","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.9829508862324, -37.811543500644426], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Fitzroy Gardens approximately 54m NW of Grandpa Giuseppe, Ground, 158 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne, 3002","latitude":"144.9829508862324","asset_id":"1086753","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Known simply as the Grey Street Fountain, this is one of the oldest fountains in Melbourne's public gardens. Manufactured by Garnkirk, the fountain is of a simple design comprising three tazza bowls of diminishing sizes, with each bowl raised on a socle and pedestal. The rim of each bowl is decorated with an egg-and-dart moulding. The fountain is set on a volcanic rock outcrop within a pool. It is a well preserved example of an imported English design, indicative of the taste in garden ornamentation in the mid-late 19th Century.
Its construction commenced in 1863 under the direction of Clement Hodgkinson, the assistant commissioner of the Survey Office. The original concept incorporated a pool 30.5 metres long, with a central cluster of rocks from which water was to be ejected to nearly 15.25 metres, although this appears not to have been realised. The pond was filled with small islands of aquatic plantings and Sydney Couch Grass.
In 1968, Melbourne City Council wanted to replace the fountain with an elaborate sundial to commemorate the recently deceased prime minister, Harold Holt. When the council's intention became known, some 800 people petitioned against the fountain's removal. In the face of such opposition, plans for the sundial were scrapped and the Grey Street Fountain retained. The fountain is the only surviving ornament from that period in its original position in Fitzroy Gardens.
","object_type":"Fountain","art_date":"1863","inscription":"GARNKIRK is impressed into various segments of the cast bowls. ANL is also impressed next to one of the manufacturer''''''''s marks.","longitude":"-37.811543500644426","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Parks Services Branch","makers":"Unknown
","property":"Fitzroy Gardens","classification":"Memorials","title":"Grey Street Fountain"},{"_id":5,"geo_point_2d":"-37.82148770181237, 144.9711947232973","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.9711947232973, -37.82148770181237], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Queen Victoria Gardens","latitude":"144.9711947232973","asset_id":"1086741","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Bronze figure on a bronze plinth that combines the features and characteristics of an Egyptian cat and a lion with a triangular face and pointed ears. The back section of the sculpture is flat to encourage play.
Tom Bass was born in Lithgow, NSW, in 1916. After a hiatus in his studies during World War Two, he graduated from the National Art School in 1948. Bass gained inspiration for his work from his extensive travels, which is apparent in The Genie. One of Australia's leading sculptors, Bass has created some of the country's most significant works, such as the entrance sculpture at Canberra's National Library, Trial of Socrates at the University of Melbourne's Wilson Hall and Ethos in Canberra's Civic Square.
In 1971, sculptor Peter Corlett presented the concept of a children's play sculpture to Melbourne City Council. The commission for this sculpture went to Bass. The Genie's design is a synthesis of Western and Eastern art forms, and combines the characteristics of an Egyptian cat with a lion. It was designed to complement its natural surroundings, while still being able to attract the attention of children. Its form and textured surface are intended to encourage play and to extend children's experience of art by inviting direct physical contact. In part, its inscription reads: `The Genie / A fantasy play sculpture / for children'.","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"1973","inscription":"\"Tom Bass 1973\" & \"Bronze by F.J. & I. Lemon\" THE GENIE/A FANTASY PLAY SCULPTURE /FOR CHILDREN/ERECTED BY THE MELBOURNE CITY COUNCIL 1973/SCULPTOR: MR TOM BASS","longitude":"-37.82148770181237","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"BASS, Tom","property":"Queen Victoria Gardens","classification":"Sculpture","title":"The Genie"},{"_id":6,"geo_point_2d":"-37.81569486070456, 144.9462026449502","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.9462026449502, -37.81569486070456], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Channel 7 Melbourne Broad Cast Centre","latitude":"144.9462026449502","asset_id":"1559913","history":null,"owner_type":"Not Owned","description":"Art Wall was commissioned by the Seven Network for the rear of its building. The piece is about the relationship between television and image - the nature of television as a transmitter of electronic images, the perception of those images, and the intimacy of television as a medium. A series of small windows contain three distinct 3D installations -a diorama, a scale model of a television room with a tiny working television set, and a series of printed glass elements.","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"2000","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.81569486070456","company":"VicUrban","service_manager":null,"makers":"Peter D. Cole","property":"Channel 7 Melbourne Broad Cast Centre","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Art Wall"},{"_id":7,"geo_point_2d":"-37.818843311029966, 144.94506762996465","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.94506762996465, -37.818843311029966], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":"Captains Walk","location":"National@Docklands approximately 64m North of National Australia Bank, 808 Bourke Street, Docklands, 3008","latitude":"144.94506762996465","asset_id":"1559912","history":null,"owner_type":"Not Owned","description":"Melbourne artist John Mead's Aqualungis a sleek and abstract sculpture that is loosely based on the breathing apparatus of the human body. It has a peaceful, contemplative and timeless presence in the busy public thoroughfare in the North-South link of the NAB buildings. Appearing to emerge from underground, Aqualung quietly disrupts the breezeway and the clean, efficient architecture that surrounds it - and like much of Mead's work, has the ability to take one's breath away.","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"2006","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.818843311029966","company":"VicUrban","service_manager":null,"makers":"John Mead","property":"National@Docklands","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Aqualung"},{"_id":8,"geo_point_2d":"-37.78930375418185, 144.97217890820102","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.97217890820102, -37.78930375418185], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":null,"latitude":"144.97217890820102","asset_id":"1091149","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Sir William Brunton was the Lord Mayor of Melbourne from 1923 to 1926. He was the powerhouse behind the Lord Mayor's Hospital Fund, a founder of the National War Memorial Committee and an advocate of parks and gardens for public recreation.
Following his service, Brunton offered this ornamental granite and bluestone drinking fountain to the Parks & Gardens Committee, which had it erected in Curtain Square, on Rathdowne Street, North Carlton.","object_type":"Drinking Fountain","art_date":"1938","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.78930375418185","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Parks Services Branch","makers":"Unknown","property":null,"classification":"Memorials","title":"Brunton Drinking Fountain East"},{"_id":9,"geo_point_2d":"-37.80700265749862, 144.9645692680851","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.9645692680851, -37.80700265749862], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":"Franklin Street between Victoria Street and Swanston Street","location":"Franklin Street between Victoria Street and Swanston Street approximately 38m SW of Royal Melbourne Institute Of Technology, 80-92 Victoria Street, Carlton, 3053","latitude":"144.9645692680851","asset_id":"1656982","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Standing by Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner is a commemorative marker by artists Brook Andrew and Trent Walter, commissioned by the City of Melbourne in early 2016, and opened publicly on 11 September 2016.
Artist statement
Standing by Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner is a permanent marker that is experimental and empowering. It begs contemporary viewers to embrace innovative processes of how to remember their tragic story through historical artistic representations of the ready-made object.
The permanent marker comprises six brightly coloured newspaper stands, a static solid bluestone swing, indigenous food and medicine plantings and a reproduction suburban Victorian style fence.
The brightly coloured newspaper stands represent colours of both the Aboriginal and Australian flags: red, white, blue yellow and black. Australian and Aboriginal law have often clashed and this story is one that represents this clash, hence the colours of the flags coming together. Newspapers in each stand acknowledge diverse early colonial and Aboriginal histories of Melbourne and Tasmania, heritage stories and the specific story of Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheener.
The static solid bluestone swing and tomb-like structure with the names Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner engraved on the side invites visitors to the site to sit, contemplate and reflect. The children's swing seat becomes the tomb, laden with memory and history.
The pavement in bluestone and a woven wire gate reflect the nostalgic history of Melbourne. The bluestone path, a continuation from the Old Melbourne Gaol connects the two sites, signifying connection to a complex history involving crime and punishment in early Melbourne
The structure sits amongst indigenous medicine plants that are useful for regeneration and native to the landscape of Parperloihener clan (Cape Grim), Iarapuna (Bay of Fires), Woiworung and Boonwurrung of the Kulin Nation (Melbourne).
The viewer will learn not only about history and the significance of this story, but will also about the importance of Aboriginal medicines and land care, which relate directly to the care of the body and culture.
Standing by Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner creates an educational platform to ensure longevity of their story, and invites Melbourne locals and visitors to discover how this story informs our knowledge of Aboriginal history and contested histories of colonisation.","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"2016","inscription":"Front Inscription: Tunnerminnerwait Maulboyheenner
Left Side Inscription: Standing by Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner / 2016 / Brook Andrew and Trent Walter
Right Side Inscription: This artwork was inititiated by Tunnerminnerwait and / Maulboyheenner Commemoration Committee, which holds a / gathering here annually to honour the two men who were / executed by public hanging on this location at midday, 20 / January 1842. / Commissioned by the City of Melbourne","longitude":"-37.80700265749862","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":null,"makers":"Andrew, Brook; Walter, Trent","property":null,"classification":"Sculpture","title":"Standing by Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner"},{"_id":10,"geo_point_2d":"-37.817969059842106, 144.96906199923544","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.96906199923544, -37.817969059842106], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Federation Square approximately 42m North of Deakin Edge Theatre at Fed Square, Deakin Edge, Federation Square, 2 Swanston Street, Melbourne, 3000","latitude":"144.96906199923544","asset_id":"1560995","history":null,"owner_type":"Not Owned","description":"Artist and writer Paul Carter collaborated with the architects of Federation Square on Nearamnew, a vast Square paving design with poetic text inscriptions. Fragmented voices of historical and fictional characters can be deciphered in nine locations around the site, relating the history of the site and poetic visions of the Federation ideal.","object_type":"Artwork","art_date":"2003","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.817969059842106","company":"Federation Square","service_manager":null,"makers":"Paul Carter","property":"Federation Square","classification":"Unknown","title":"Nearamnew"},{"_id":11,"geo_point_2d":"-37.83028190715433, 144.9743398250947","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.9743398250947, -37.83028190715433], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Shrine of Remembrance Reserve approximately 42m SW of The Gardens Shop, Gardens Shop, 100 Birdwood Avenue, Melbourne, 3004","latitude":"144.9743398250947","asset_id":"1091177","history":"Commissioned in 1998 to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Legacy.","owner_type":"Owned","description":"Bronze statue of a mother and two children located in the Legacy Garden of Appreciation.","object_type":"Statue","art_date":"1998","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.83028190715433","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"Laumen, Louis","property":"Shrine of Remembrance Reserve","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Widow and Children"},{"_id":12,"geo_point_2d":"-37.78528747283689, 144.96619001850792","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.96619001850792, -37.78528747283689], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Hardy Reserve","latitude":"144.96619001850792","asset_id":"1086587","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Shrine-like architectural structure surmounted by life size bust of Cr William Cook. The memorial to long serving Councillor Cook was unveiled by the Lord Mayor, Colonel Burston on 26 October 1910.
The design of this memorial drinking fountain is derived from wayside shrines, a Catholic tradition whereby the faithful erected shrines through the countryside of Europe. In this secularised form, the spring of water replaces the holy image. The drinking spout is located below a domed canopy, above which is the marble bust of the councillor.
","object_type":"Drinking Fountain","art_date":"1910","inscription":"ERECTED IN THE MEMORY OF / COUNCILLOR WILLIAM COOK / BY HIS MANY FRIENDS IN / RECOGNITION / OF SERVICES RENDERED WHILST REPRESENTING / VICTORIA WARD / FOR 15 YEARS. / 26TH OCT. 1910.","longitude":"-37.78528747283689","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Parks Services Branch","makers":"Richardson, Charles Douglas
","property":"Hardy Reserve","classification":"Memorials","title":"Councillor William Cook Memorial Drinking Fountain"},{"_id":13,"geo_point_2d":"-37.8067376454504, 144.90868793767592","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.90868793767592, -37.8067376454504], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":"Footscray Road between Dock Link Road and Sims Street","location":"Footscray Road between Dock Link Road and Sims Street approximately 62m East of 717 Footscray Road, West Melbourne, 3003","latitude":"144.90868793767592","asset_id":"1088151","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"This basalt obelisk was erected in 1941 to commemorate the first landing of Europeans in the Melbourne area. It is positioned at the original junction of the Yarra and Maribyrnong Rivers, the two waterways explored by Charles Grimes in 1803, when he arrived from Sydney.
While it is commonly believed that John Batman first extolled the virtues of site of Melbourne in 1835, some 32 years earlier Grimes made the claim that it was `the most eligible place for a village'. Claude Smith, a keen local historian and Footscray councillor, proposed the monument in 1937. He maintained that had the Maribyrnong been a freshwater rather than a saltwater stream, the site of Footscray would have been the state's capital.
The monumnet was unveiled 23 November 1941.
","object_type":"Monument","art_date":"1941","inscription":"THIS MONUMENT HAS BEEN ERECTED TO MARK THE ORIGINAL JUNCTION OF THE YARRA AND THE MARIBYRNONG RIVERS WHICH WAS NEAR THIS SPOT. ''''''''... These rivers were originally discovered by Charles Edmond Grimes/ in February 1808 and re-found by John Batman in 1836. / Port Phillip was discovered by John Murray in the Lady Nelson in February 1802. The first vessel in Hobson''''''''s Bay was the Cumberland/ with Grimes the surveyor. The first man o''''''''war was the Calcutta. / At the end of the same year 1903, the first vessel to ascend the Yarra was John P. Fawkner''''''''s Enterprise''''''''.
An inset brass plaque in the ground below reads: `Historical Note, 1995 / When this monument was erected in 1941, it was believed that the HMAS Calcutta / took on fresh water from the Yarra River in November 1803. The Calcutta log indicates that the / ship came only as far as Frankston, and took water from Kananook Creek''","longitude":"-37.8067376454504","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"Unknown","property":null,"classification":"Sculpture","title":"Port Philip Monument"},{"_id":14,"geo_point_2d":"-37.80725189160194, 144.95923056581196","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.95923056581196, -37.80725189160194], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":"Therry Street between Elizabeth Street and Queen Street","location":"Therry Street between Elizabeth Street and Queen Street approximately 16m North of Rear, 93 Therry Street, Melbourne, 3000","latitude":"144.95923056581196","asset_id":"1088242","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"This large bronze sculpture ' featuring an array of vegetables, fish and an Aboriginal fishing net ' looks whimsically to the relationship between the land and city, tradition and lifestyle, production and consumption.
In 1994, the City of Melbourne commissioned Fraser to undertake Wind Contrivance through its Percent for Art Program. The work was sculpted in Fraser's studio at Lurg, 20 kilometres from Benalla, and cast at the Meridian Foundry in Fitzroy. Wind Contrivance is sited at Queen Victoria Market, a centre point between land and city, and a cipher through which the country harvest is distributed to city dwellers.
Unveiled 22 August 1996
","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"1995","inscription":"WIND CONTRIVANCE / PAULINE FRASER / 1995","longitude":"-37.80725189160194","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"FRASER, Pauline
","property":null,"classification":"Sculpture","title":"Wind Contrivance"},{"_id":15,"geo_point_2d":"-37.811023513897744, 144.9783891748421","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.9783891748421, -37.811023513897744], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Fitzroy Gardens approximately 55m SE of Maintenance Sheds, St Patricks Cathedral, 7 Lansdowne Street, East Melbourne, 3002","latitude":"144.9783891748421","asset_id":"1088150","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"This work comprises approximately 10,000 standard terracotta bricks set in the three concentric circles surrounding a raised garden bed, with plantings of palms and ivy. The exposed face of each brick features a hand-etched drawing. The associated plaque advises that the `tiles' were made by the people of Victoria on the opening day of the Arts Victoria 78 Craft Festival. The path was opened by the Hon. R.J. Hamer, then premier and arts minister, on the 18 February 1979.
People's Path originates from a community art project, providing a metaphorical means by which the community can take ownership of a public space.
","object_type":"Bricks / Tiles","art_date":"1978-1979","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.811023513897744","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"Sprague, Ian et al.","property":"Fitzroy Gardens","classification":"Sculpture","title":"People''''''''s Path"},{"_id":16,"geo_point_2d":"-37.81212180360231, 144.97970323398684","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.97970323398684, -37.81212180360231], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Fitzroy Gardens","latitude":"144.97970323398684","asset_id":"1088241","history":"It was erected in the Fitzroy Gardens around 1900, possibly under the curatorship of John Guilfoyle, who was, at the turn of the century, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens.","owner_type":"Owned","description":"Small bronze figure of a boy holding a tipped urn on his shoulder from which water flows into a bowl underneath. The figure is positioned atop a rockery.
During the night of March 18th 2016, the Boy and Urn statue was stolen from Fitzroy Gardens","object_type":"Fountain","art_date":"c1900","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.81212180360231","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"unknown","property":"Fitzroy Gardens","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Boy and Urn"},{"_id":17,"geo_point_2d":"-37.809326424568866, 144.95805722764143","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.95805722764143, -37.809326424568866], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Victoria Market Reserve approximately 22m West of Complex Training Academy, Gnd & Mezz, 400 Queen Street, Melbourne, 3000","latitude":"144.95805722764143","asset_id":"1091859","history":"
","owner_type":"Owned","description":"Island Wave is a large work that comprises a repeated motif and is sited on the Franklin and Queen Streets roundabout. Young's motif is a French curve, to which she was drawn for its sensuality and its past use as a mechanical drawing aid for the technical works executed by engineers and architects. The repetition of this motif along the curve of the roundabout creates a sense of movement, particularly for the motorist travelling alongside it. It is scaled to give the sensation of both moving in rhythm to and being engulfed by a wave. Unlike a solid monolithic sculpture, there is a `lightness' about Island Wave, which is achieved by its thinness, its open form and the sense of movement it evokes. Island Wave engages both the motorist and pedestrian, and its prominent location near Queen Victoria Market ensures that it has a local and international audience.","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"2003","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.809326424568866","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"ALI, Zoe","property":"Victoria Market Reserve","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Island Wave"},{"_id":18,"geo_point_2d":"-37.82024605773942, 144.96066253110223","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.96066253110223, -37.82024605773942], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Enterprize Park approximately 54m South of Customs Square, 401 Flinders Street, Melbourne, 3000","latitude":"144.96066253110223","asset_id":"1088260","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"During the 19th century, the Yarra River near the corner of Queen and Flinders Streets was the focus of Melbourne's shipping activity. Natural falls in the river created a barrier between the salt and freshwater, and just below the falls a natural widening in the river enabled boats to turn around after unloading at Customs House (now the Immigration Museum).
In 1996, the Yarra Turning Basin Project was launched. This would recreate the historic turning basin, which had since been filled in, and develop a new riverside promenade that would complement and extend the existing spatial design of the river's northern bank. The concept for the site's public artwork entailed a series of five figureheads, which would sit on wooden piers that were integral to the design and material of the timber wharf.
Council's Public Art & Acquisitions Committee selected Bruce Armstrong and Geoffrey Bartlett's design from a short-list of four. Both Armstrong and Bartlett are renowned Melbourne sculptors, each having undertaken many public commissions and having exhibited widely. With the working title `5 figureheads', they crafted Constellation from wood and metal, and using traditional and contemporary approaches to the sculpture's design. The five carved-wood figureheads represent a dragon, woman, bird, man and lion. These evoke a long history of figurehead carving from around the world and also reflect the ethnic and cultural diversity of those who used the turning basin during the early years of settlement. The constructed metal elements suggest maritime forms, lines and images, but they are never simply literal; they require the viewer to engage with the work to read their reference point. The title of this work, too, pays homage to the long history of seafaring, the stars having guided many a vessel from one port to another.
Constellation was unveiled in 1997.","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"1996","inscription":"BRUCE ARMSTRONG AND GEOFFREY BARTLETT / CONSTELLATION / 1997","longitude":"-37.82024605773942","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"BARTLETT, Geoffrey; Armstrong, Bruce","property":"Enterprize Park","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Constellation"},{"_id":19,"geo_point_2d":"-37.81031620582498, 144.9549375102993","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.9549375102993, -37.81031620582498], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Flagstaff Gardens approximately 46m South of City of Melbourne, Flagstaff Gardens Tennis Courts, Flagstaff Gardens, 311 William Street, West Melbourne, 3003","latitude":"144.9549375102993","asset_id":"1091427","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Originally constructed primarily from sandstone in the 1800s, this circular bronze sundial sits on a light cement-rendered sandstone plinth and bluestone hexagonal base (reconstructed in 1947). It is located directly opposite The Court Favorite, c1930.
","object_type":"Sundial","art_date":null,"inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.81031620582498","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":null,"makers":"Unknown","property":"Flagstaff Gardens","classification":"Horology","title":"Sundial"},{"_id":20,"geo_point_2d":"-37.80474430914415, 144.97245207113764","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.97245207113764, -37.80474430914415], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Exhibition Building & Melbourne Museum approximately 96m West of Royal Exhibition Building, 9 Nicholson Street, Carlton, 3053","latitude":"144.97245207113764","asset_id":"1086514","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Bronze bust of Dr Louis Smith on granite pedestal.
Unveiled on 26 March 1914 by Sir Henry Weedon. The bust was situated in the gardens east of the Royal Exhibition Building between 1914 and 1996.|The sculpture was removed from the site to protect it when work commenced on the new Melbourne Museum. It has since been returned to its original site.
Born in London in 1830, Dr Louis Smith immigrated to Melbourne in 1852. Besides medicine, Smith had a career as a politician, during which he was accused and acquitted of corruption several times. An important figure during the development of the Exhibition Building, Smith was chair of the trustees from 1884 to 1909 and a trustee from 1881 until his death in 1910. Bertram Mackennal's bronze bust of Smith was funded by public subscription and is sited at the eastern entrance to his beloved building.
Born in London in 1830, Smith studied medicine in Paris and London before migrating to Melbourne in 1852 as a ship''''''''s surgeon. The next year he opened a surgery in Bourke Street, and soon became quite successful.
Sir Edgar Bertram MacKennal- Born in Fitzroy in 1863, Mackennal studied at the Melbourne Model School, King''''''''s College, and the National Gallery. He travelled to London, Paris and Italy in 1882, before being appointed head of modelling and design at Coalport Potteries in Shropshire in 1886.|He briefly returned to Melbourne to make relief panels for Parliament House, but soon returned to Paris in 1891. He exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1895 and soon found himself in demand. Some of his commissions include Queen Victoria (in England, India and Ballarat), the statues of Cardinal Moran and Archbishop Kelly at St Mary''''''''s Cathedral, Sydney, the medal for the London Olympics and several statues around Melbourne including Sir William Clarke and King Edward VII. He was Knighted in 1921, and elected to the Royal Academy in 1922.","object_type":"Bust","art_date":"1914","inscription":"The Honourable Dr. L.L. Smith, Erected by Public Subscription, 26 March, 1914","longitude":"-37.80474430914415","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"McKennal, Sir Edgar Bertram
","property":"Exhibition Building & Melbourne Museum","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Dr Louis Smith"},{"_id":21,"geo_point_2d":"-37.815522370963386, 144.96699434684948","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.96699434684948, -37.815522370963386], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"City Square approximately 11m SW of Dior, 209 Collins Street, Melbourne, 3000","latitude":"144.96699434684948","asset_id":"1091510","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"The fountain consists of a finely ridged bronze wall over which a thin veil of water stretching out across the face of a concrete wall creates shimmering patterns as it encounters the grooved surface. Ten metres long and 3.4 metres high, the water wall has a calming and a cooling effect on a hot Melbourne day.
For most of his career renowned architect John Mockridge lived and worked in Melbourne, contributing to the city's built fabric. Mockridge passed away in 1994, and in his will he bequeathed funds for a public fountain in his memory and as a tribute to the city he loved. The will stipulated that the fountain have a vertical component over which water could play, day and night; it was written and the fountain built before the severity of our changing climate was fully appreciated. In response, Ron Jones, Simon Perry and Darryl Cowie designed a simple yet visually engaging fountain, a thin veil of water stretching out across the face of a concrete wall, creating shimmering patterns as it spills across the grooved surface.","object_type":"Fountain","art_date":"2000","inscription":"Plaque: JOHN MOCKRIDGE FOUNTAIN / GIFT OF / John P Mockridge / 1916-1994 / ARCHITECT / DESIGNER OF SIGNIFICANT / BUILDINGS FOR ECCLESIASTICAL / EDUCATIONAL / AND CIVIC PURPOSES / DESIGNED 2000:R. JONES, D. COWIE, S. PERRY","longitude":"-37.815522370963386","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Parks Services Branch","makers":"Perry, Simon; Jones, Ron; Cowie, Darryl
","property":"City Square","classification":"Sculpture","title":"John Mockridge Fountain"},{"_id":22,"geo_point_2d":"-37.8323774586129, 144.9729342609244","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.9729342609244, -37.8323774586129], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Shrine of Remembrance Reserve approximately 71m North of Melbourne Grammar School, Wadhurst Campus, Melbourne Grammar School, 1 Domain Road, Melbourne, 3004","latitude":"144.9729342609244","asset_id":"1086582","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"The fountain consists of two pools, one within the other, and a central column. The walls and floors of the pools are tiled and the perimeter walls are capped with granite blocks, as is the central column. The bronze figure of a boy catching a dolphin stands atop. Around the fountain are bronze frogs, sea horses and platypi, which spray water into the pools. Jets of water spout out and up. Base - gryphons spurting water out and down.
Robertson was a successful businessman and a philanthropist, making his money and name in confectionery; he was responsible for introducing chewing gum and fairy floss into Australia. Robertson gave to many causes and expeditions, Sir Douglas Mawson even naming Mac Robertson Land in Antarctica in his honour. In celebration of Victoria's centenary, Robertson donated £15,000 as first prize in the Centenary Air Race from London to Melbourne and £100,000 for works to be undertaken around the city. The fountain, unveiled in 1934, is one result of this donation.
Montford migrated to Australia in 1921 and taught at the Gordon Institute, Geelong. He was also president of the Victorian Artists from 1930 to 1931. He was responsible for a number of sculptural commissions throughout Melbourne, including Justice George Higinbotham, Adam Lindsay Gordon, John Wesley and a series of granite buttress groups for the Shrine of Remembrance. In 1934 Montford was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Society of British Sculptors for his depiction of a poet and horseman, Adam Lindsay Gordon.
Philip Hudson (1887-1951) was an architect who specialised in designing schools. Among his works are Geelong Grammar, Ivanhoe Grammar and Brighton Grammar as well as the Union House at Melbourne University and the Shrine of Remembrance
","object_type":"Fountain","art_date":"1934","inscription":"THIS FOUNTAIN WAS PRESENTED BY / SIR MACPHERSON ROBERTSON / KT.F.R.G.S., / TO THE PEOPLE OF VICTORIA / CENTENARY 1834-1934","longitude":"-37.8323774586129","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Parks Services Branch","makers":"Montford, Paul","property":"Shrine of Remembrance Reserve","classification":"Memorials","title":"Macpherson Robertson Fountain"},{"_id":23,"geo_point_2d":"-37.82975546446717, 144.97441978122478","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.97441978122478, -37.82975546446717], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Kings Domain South approximately 36m NW of The Gardens Shop, Gardens Shop, 100 Birdwood Avenue, Melbourne, 3004","latitude":"144.97441978122478","asset_id":"1086737","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"This memorial consists of a large boulder set into a small paved area in a nature strip off Birdwood Ave (east side). It was unveiled in May 1965. Fittingly, the memorial is located opposite the Shrine of Remembrance. It is to Edward George Honey that we owe the ritual of observing two minutes' silence in commemoration of the war fallen.
Erected by Eric Harding. Unveiled by Lord Mayor Cr Curtis, 7 May 1965","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"1965","inscription":"IN MEMORY OF / EDWARD GEORGE HONEY / 1885-1922 / A MELBOURNE JOURNALIST WHO, WHILE LIVING IN LONDON, / FIRST SUGGESTED THE SOLEMN CEREMONY OF / SILENCE / NOW OBSERVED IN ALL BRITISH COUNTRIES / IN REMEMBRANCE OF THOSE WHO DIED IN WAR / \"LEST WE FORGET\"","longitude":"-37.82975546446717","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"Unknown","property":"Kings Domain South","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Edward George Honey Memorial"},{"_id":24,"geo_point_2d":"-37.814805087629836, 144.96838103517445","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.96838103517445, -37.814805087629836], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"150 Collins Street approximately 6m West of Victorian Chamber Of Commerce And Industry, Ground, Pt Lvl 2 & Level 3, 150 Collins Street, Melbourne, 3000","latitude":"144.96838103517445","asset_id":"1088180","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"This is one of several public artworks commissioned for the Another View walking trail. The seven brass figures are an interpretation of the Karak Goruk (Seven Sisters) daughters of Bunjil, the Eagle man, and Ganawarra, the Black Swan woman. The inlayed figures represent the seven colours of the rainbow and are placed in juxtaposition to the Georges' Fountain, near the corner of Russell St.","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"1995","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.814805087629836","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":null,"makers":"Thomas, Ray","property":"150 Collins Street","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Another View Site 17"},{"_id":25,"geo_point_2d":"-37.81384199949477, 144.98275871683995","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.98275871683995, -37.81384199949477], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Fitzroy Gardens approximately 41m NW of Holy Trinity Anglican Church, 72-80 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne, 3002","latitude":"144.98275871683995","asset_id":"1086750","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Pyrmont Sandstone sculpture depicting a mermaid with a split tail leaning against a large fish which is supported by waves. The figure is perched atop a Pyrmont sandstone self-base.
William Leslie Bowles joined the Australian War Memorial as a sculptor and model maker in 1924. On leaving the memorial in 1931, Bowles undertook many public commissions. In 1935, three of Bowles' designs were selected to replace the existing and much deteriorated statuary in Fitzroy Gardens. Mermaid and Fish along with Boy and Pelican were placed either side of the Clarendon Street entrance to the Fitzroy Gardens on 5 October 1936, while his Diana and the Hounds is sited at the conservatory.","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"1936","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.81384199949477","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"BOWLES, William Leslie","property":"Fitzroy Gardens","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Mermaid and Fish"},{"_id":26,"geo_point_2d":"-37.813524890597556, 144.96591286716105","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.96591286716105, -37.813524890597556], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":"Bourke Street between Russell Street and Swanston Street","location":"Bourke Street between Russell Street and Swanston Street approximately 12m West of Vodafone, Shop 1-3, Ground, 255-267 Bourke Street, Melbourne, 3000","latitude":"144.96591286716105","asset_id":"1088158","history":"These works are temporary artworks.","owner_type":"Owned","description":"Enamel paint - aboriginal motifs","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"1998","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.813524890597556","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"Lisa Kennedy","property":null,"classification":"Sculpture","title":"Electric Supply Box D"},{"_id":27,"geo_point_2d":"-37.81613995849352, 144.9673081996758","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.9673081996758, -37.81613995849352], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"City Square approximately 11m South of Three Below, Shop 3, 207 Collins Street, Melbourne, 3000","latitude":"144.9673081996758","asset_id":"1632291","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"A water feature commemorating the sister city relationships between Melbourne and Osaka, Tianjin, Thessaloniki Boston and St. Petersburg located in City Square.
This artwork was formerly located at City Square but was removed due to works associated with Metro Tunnel Project works. The glass artwork components are now in storage
","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"2000","inscription":"This stream celebrates Melbourne`s sister city relationships with Osaka, Tianjin, Thessaloniki Boston and St. Petersburg. Denise Sullivan`s glass sculpture in the deeper pools uses reflections and relationships to represent the bond between cities. The bridges suggest links between physically separated people. The water itself, while representing a local stream, also suggests the global connection of the six port cities. Sister cities - 2000 - Looking Glass - Denise Sullivan
","longitude":"-37.81613995849352","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":null,"makers":"Sullivan, Denise","property":"City Square","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Looking Glass"},{"_id":28,"geo_point_2d":"-37.81960598167001, 144.9513254111904","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.9513254111904, -37.81960598167001], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Approximately 29m NW of 43 Wurundjeri Way, Docklands, 3008","latitude":"144.9513254111904","asset_id":"1560991","history":null,"owner_type":"Not Owned","description":"Sydney-based artist Ari Purhonen's colourful public installations play with parallax and perspective, using colour to offer a range of views and experiences. In this piece, coloured vertical louvres accentuate the dynamics of this energetic new urban environment. The work is designed to be viewed by motorists on Wurundjeri Way as well as pedestrians using the Collins Street Bridge, offering a changing colour field depending on the position of the viewer.","object_type":"Artwork","art_date":"2003","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.81960598167001","company":"VicUrban","service_manager":null,"makers":"Ari Purhonen","property":null,"classification":"Unknown","title":"Parallax"},{"_id":29,"geo_point_2d":"-37.82090066454161, 144.95469275536306","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.95469275536306, -37.82090066454161], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Flinders & Spencer Street Reserve","latitude":"144.95469275536306","asset_id":"1552145","history":"David Michael Bell's artwork Raising the Rattler Pole ' The Last of the Connies was commissioned as part of the Public Art Program call for expressions of interest for new public art works in 2011 to the value of $360,000.
EOIs were assessed on a competitive and merit basis, by an external advisory panel comprising Public Art Advisory Panel member(s), artists and arts industry experts.
David Bell's Raising the Rattler Pole is one of two artworks endorsed for commissioning to this value, the other being Matthew Harding's Fruition, located in Royal Park.
Commissioned by the City of Melbourne Public Art Program.","owner_type":"Owned","description":"David Michael Bell's public art work, Raising the Rattler Pole ' The Last of the Connies, is a theatrical tribute to one of Melbourne's iconic heroes ' the W-Class `rattler' tram. The 1:1 scale replica is finished in a realistic bluestone effect, an aesthetic in keeping with historical Melbourne buildings of the W-Class era and a subtle homage to the conventional stone plinth of traditional monuments.
Upended and tilted at 10 degrees, the Rattler forms its own monument to a bygone era.
At night the headlights and windows gently glow much like a block of city apartments filled with unseen after-hours activities.","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"2013","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.82090066454161","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":null,"makers":"David Michael Bell","property":"Flinders & Spencer Street Reserve","classification":null,"title":"Raising the Rattler Pole"},{"_id":30,"geo_point_2d":"-37.80545677024263, 144.97136832705928","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.97136832705928, -37.80545677024263], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Carlton Gardens South","latitude":"144.97136832705928","asset_id":"1086575","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Also known as Hochgurtel Fountain
Three colossal figures, half man, half fish support the first ledge. Above this ledge dance four boys hand in hand representing commerce, industry, science and arts, symbolic designs being shown over their heads. Above the dancers is a second ledge which is embellished with flowers and birds indigenous to Victoria. This design is domed by a further ledge surmounted by a boy bearing a basket of fishes on his head. It is constructed from Portland Cement on a frame of stone and iron.
The colossal fountain stands some 10 metres high on the south side of the Royal Exhibition Building, outside the Great Hall. It was constructed for the first of Melbourne's two grand international world fairs. The fountain's visual elements were designed to display the young colony's confidence and advancement, simultaneously signalling the purpose of world fairs to display the produce and industry of nations. At the central level of the fountain, four youths (representing a young and vibrant colony) dance below symbols of the arts, science, commerce and industry; for example, musical instruments, a telescope, sailing ship, steam engine and globe of the world. Above this are images of Victoria's indigenous flora and fauna, and a boy with a clamshell. Holding all of this aloft are four merpeople rising up from the waters of the lower pool. Built during Victoria's boom years, the fountain's spouting water, it was thought, would demonstrate the power and success of the recently established Yan Yean project, which brought potable water to the city. On opening day, however, the pressure was too poor to affect much more than a spurt from the apex of the grand edifice.
In 1994, Hochgurtel's fountain underwent major restoration. It remains a great reminder of the glorious days of Marvellous Melbourne.
","object_type":"Fountain","art_date":"1880","inscription":"THE EXHIBITION FOUNTAIN 1880 / JOSEF HOCHGURTEL","longitude":"-37.80545677024263","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Parks Services Branch","makers":"HOCHGURTEL, Josef","property":"Carlton Gardens South","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Exhibition Fountain"},{"_id":31,"geo_point_2d":"-37.82023232968245, 144.94632509501722","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.94632509501722, -37.82023232968245], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Docklands Park approximately 71m East of 72 Geographe Street, Docklands, 3008","latitude":"144.94632509501722","asset_id":"1092463","history":"
","owner_type":"Owned","description":"Reed Vessel's airy, metaphorical form is achieved through the joining of more than 300 stainless-steel pieces into a canoe form. It sits upon a cradle created by two louvered water screens, down which water gently flows and through which a fine mist is emitted. The screens are etched with the words of Australian writers and poets, quotations related to the river and the sea, to memory and the passing of time. A pedestrian bridge forms part of the work, taking passers-by across the pool and through the base of the cradle.
The maritime nature of the work acknowledges the history of the site and embraces the themes of migration, passage and survival. The area on which it is located was once extensive tidal wetlands, which provided abundant food and spiritual connections to the area for its traditional owners. The basket-like vessel also symbolises a container in which memories are held ' memories of the undeveloped site and its traditional uses, but also of the ocean journeys that have brought early settlers and later generations of migrants to these shores.
","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"2004","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.82023232968245","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":null,"makers":"King, Virginia
","property":"Docklands Park","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Reed Vessel"},{"_id":32,"geo_point_2d":"-37.80509129697919, 144.97341733159385","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.97341733159385, -37.80509129697919], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Exhibition Building & Melbourne Museum approximately 28m South of Royal Exhibition Building, 9 Nicholson Street, Carlton, 3053","latitude":"144.97341733159385","asset_id":"1086590","history":"
","owner_type":"Owned","description":"This tiered drinking fountain has two cast-bronze drinking spouts, each taking the form of an emu. A delightful example of Australiana, it has two embracing kangaroos surmounting the drinking troughs, which in turn are surmounted by a finial-like bronze and glass light.
Manufactured by Alexander McDonald & Co., this pink-granite fountain was presented to the people of Victoria by 1840s pioneer William Westgarth when he returned to Melbourne to visit the Centennial Exhibition in 1888. It was removed from its original site around 1953, after which Giannarelli & Sons acquired it for their land at Merri Creek, Northcote. It was never erected at Northcote, but Giannarelli restored the work for temporary erection at one of the main entrances (on Melbourne Avenue) to the 1988 Brisbane Expo. In 1993, it was purchased from the company and returned to the historic Carlton Gardens.
","object_type":"Drinking Fountain","art_date":"c1888","inscription":"TO / VICTORIA / FROM ONE OF / HER EARLIEST COLONISTS / IN PLEASANT REMEMBRANCE / 1840-88
","longitude":"-37.80509129697919","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Parks Services Branch","makers":"Alexander McDonald & Co","property":"Exhibition Building & Melbourne Museum","classification":"Memorials","title":"Westgarth Drinking Fountain"},{"_id":33,"geo_point_2d":"-37.79535266830282, 144.9406873459674","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.9406873459674, -37.79535266830282], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Approximately 46m NW of 74 Canning Street, North Melbourne, 3051","latitude":"144.9406873459674","asset_id":"1088140","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"The five stainless-steel panels are photo-etched with stylised birds and affixed to the structural pillars supporting one of the residential buildings. This work references the photo-etched panels in the public seating at the estate''''''''s entrance, which was also undertaken by Christensen and Mcpherson, along with architect Craig Perry. Artists Di Christensen and Bernice McPherson made this work in collaboration with the local community at Hotham Estate.","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"1995","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.79535266830282","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":null,"makers":"CHRISTENSEN, Di; MCPHERSON, Bernice","property":null,"classification":"Sculpture","title":"Bird Panels"},{"_id":34,"geo_point_2d":"-37.802484110270704, 144.9632428416034","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.9632428416034, -37.802484110270704], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Lincoln Square approximately 51m NW of Yahveh Asian Grocery, 600 Swanston Street, Carlton, 3053","latitude":"144.9632428416034","asset_id":"1086754","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"This fountain and landscaped site memorialises those who lost their lives or were injured by the bomb blasts that devastated Kuta, Bali, on 12 October 2002, and honours those who helped in the aftermath. It has been conceived as a place of comfort, the seating offering a place for quiet contemplation.
The memorial's centrepiece is a low concrete platform in which two rectangular pools are sunk. These house 91 jets, representing the Australians who perished in the bombing; the names of the 22 Victorians killed are recorded on the sides of the fountain. The fountain's 202 lights represent all who died that night. A plaque on the eastern side of the memorial lists the names of the Australians who lost their lives. On each anniversary of the bombing, the fountain recedes to become a reflection pool.
This memorial rejuvenated an existing water feature, built on the site in the 1960s. In 1961, the Melbourne City Council began work landscaping Lincoln Square, laying paths, stone terraces, flower beds and installing an ornamental spraying fountain. It was officially opened by Councillor Brens, Chairman of the Parks and Gardens Committee on the 23rd of July, 1965. The fountain was the first work to be designed financed and installed entirely by the Melbourne City Council, at a cost of 18,000 pounds. The City Architects designed a 40 foot square pool with 150 jets forming the water sculpture. The pool is capped with Sicilian marble and Harcourt granite.
","object_type":"Fountain","art_date":"2003","inscription":"On the night of October 12, 2002 at the eleventh hour, an act of terrorism claimed the lives of 202 people on the island of Bali. Of these, 91 were Australians, 22 were Victorians. This is a place for comfort for those who lost their loved ones, and for those who were grievously hurt and scarred. It is also a place that honours the many people who extended a helping hand at a time of distress and need. And it is a place of reflection for all who treasure peace. The fountain is comprised of 91 jets representing each Australian who lost their life. The names of the 22 Victorians are recorded on the sides of the fountain. The 202 victims are represented by the 202 lights located over the water. On October 12 each year the fountain will recede and become a reflection pool. [Names of Australians who died]","longitude":"-37.802484110270704","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Parks Services Branch","makers":"City of Melbourne","property":"Lincoln Square","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Bali Memorial"},{"_id":35,"geo_point_2d":"-37.81563369944254, 144.96670400596955","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.96670400596955, -37.81563369944254], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":"Swanston Street between Flinders Lane and Collins Street","location":"Swanston Street between Flinders Lane and Collins Street approximately 25m NW of A Prickly Affair, City Pillar, 74 Swanston Street, Melbourne, 3000","latitude":"144.96670400596955","asset_id":"1086524","history":"
","owner_type":"Owned","description":"Two larger than life size figures of Burke and Wills, Burke stands with feet apart left of Wills who is seated with right foot forward, Burke''''''''s forearm rests on Wills'''''''' left shoulder. Both figures gaze to the left. Wills has an open book in his lap and is reposed from writing. Self-base of bronze mounted atop granite blocks, rough hewn with finished edges. Bronze bas-relief plaques depicting number of events during exploration surround all four sides of the plinth.
The ill-fated journey of Burke and Wills is one of the most recited episodes in Australian history, and one that Summers would have a role in memorialising. Burke and Wills' journey began amid glorious public sentiment of hope and pride as their team set off for the Gulf of Carpentaria. Among other things, the publicly funded expedition would help solve the puzzle of what lay in Australia's interior, and at a time of interstate rivalry it would bring triumph to Victoria. But the expedition ended as a sorry tale of rash decision-making and unfortunate timing, and ultimately with the deaths of Burke, Wills and Gray.
On 2 November 1861, news of the death of Burke and Wills reached Melbourne, and within days grief swept the city; more than 40,000 people are said to have paid their last respects to the fallen heroes. The Victorian government announced a memorial would be erected and Charles Summers submitted the winning design. Burke stands to the left of the seated Wills, his forearm resting on his companion's shoulder. A book lays open book in Wills' lap. Mounted atop granite blocks, the statue also features bronze bas-relief plaques depicting events during the expedition. It was unveiled on 21 April 1865 ' the fourth anniversary of Burke and Wills' return to Coopers Creek.
The monument, too, has had something of a journey, having been relocated several times. In 1993, it underwent two months' restoration before being relocated in its fifth and current site. Some critics derided the work as `grotesque', pointing particularly to the elongated necks of the subjects.
Burke and Wills Monument was removed from its site on the corner of Swanston and Collins Streets in April 2017 in connection with the Metro Tunnel Project. It is currently in storage and will be returned to its former location in about 2022.","object_type":"Statue","art_date":"1865","inscription":"ROBERT O`HARA BURKE / AND / WILLIAM JOHN WILLS / LEADERS / OF / THE VICTORIAN EXPLORING EXPEDITION.
THE FIRST TO CROSS THE CONTINENT / FROM SOUTH TO NORTH. / THEY PERISHED ON THE RETURN JOURNEY / AT COOPERS CREEK, CENTRAL AUSTRALIA JUNE 1861","longitude":"-37.81563369944254","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"Summers, Charles","property":null,"classification":"Sculpture","title":"Burke and Wills Monument"},{"_id":36,"geo_point_2d":"-37.81430288960753, 144.94495681027365","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.94495681027365, -37.81430288960753], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Life Lab approximately 9m NE of NBN, Ground & Lvls 1-2 & 4, 192 Harbour Esplanade, Docklands, 3008","latitude":"144.94495681027365","asset_id":"1562804","history":null,"owner_type":"Not Owned","description":"A network of 48 totems is embedded in the `Forest Walk' environment of Digital Harbour. At night, the totems are silhouetted by a changing spectrum of light, and the forest comes alive with a cacophony of sound. This interactive landscape responds to human presence both on site and online.","object_type":"Artwork","art_date":"2008","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.81430288960753","company":"VicUrban","service_manager":null,"makers":"Troy Innocent","property":"Life Lab","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Colony"},{"_id":37,"geo_point_2d":"-37.81114211029683, 144.96928691505966","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.96928691505966, -37.81114211029683], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Chinatown Plaza","latitude":"144.96928691505966","asset_id":"1562802","history":null,"owner_type":"Not Owned","description":"This statue commemorates Dr Sun Yat Sen who played a significant role in the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty in the early 20th century. Dr Sun Yat sen was a Chinese revolutionary and the first president and founding father of the Nationalist Republic of China. He became the first provisional president when the Republic of China was formed in 1912.
Funded by the Dr Sun Yat-Sen Steering Committee, and unveiled outside the Museum''s entrance in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of China. Respectfully erected by the Founding Committee of Dr. Sun Yat Sen Memorial Statue Inc and the Chinese Community of Australia 10 October, 2011.","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"2011","inscription":"Front: Dr Sun Yat Sen / The Founder of Modern China 1866-1925
Back: Respectfully erected by the Founding Committee of Dr. Sun / Yat Sen Memorial Statue Inc and the Chinese Community of / Australia 10 October 2011 Melbourne","longitude":"-37.81114211029683","company":null,"service_manager":null,"makers":null,"property":"Chinatown Plaza","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Dr Sun Yat Sen"},{"_id":38,"geo_point_2d":"-37.81405489268127, 144.96733869785558","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.96733869785558, -37.81405489268127], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Council House approximately 13m NE of Up There, 208 Little Collins Street, Melbourne, 3000","latitude":"144.96733869785558","asset_id":"1088730","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Duldig's Australia Today and Tomorrow is a bronze wall sculpture located at the Council House 1 entrance, 200 Little Collins Street, Melbourne. It demonstrates a hallmark of his work; although part of the modernist tradition, the émigré's sculptures always took a figurative form. The work consists of fragmented geometric abstract and figurative forms in beaten, moulded and crumpled bronze and suspended in relief from a bronze grid.
It was commissioned by Henry Krongold, the Polish'Australian businessman who owned the car park upon which this building was constructed. Krongold sold the building to council several years later, and the artwork was transferred with the land title.
","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"1970","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.81405489268127","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"DULDIG, Karl","property":"Council House","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Australia Today and Tomorrow"},{"_id":39,"geo_point_2d":"-37.81891097559535, 144.97302122652613","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.97302122652613, -37.81891097559535], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Birrarung Marr approximately 97m South of Birrarung Marr, Batman Avenue, Melbourne, 3000","latitude":"144.97302122652613","asset_id":"1091181","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Grey granite drinking fountain with 2 troughs located at Birrarung Marr.
In 1936, the area between the Yarra River and Batman Avenue was named Stapley Parade Reserve, after Councillor Frank Stapley, who represented the Albert Ward from 1898 to 1939 and served as mayor over 1917 and 1918. Identical granite drinking fountains were erected at either end of the reserve. They were engraved with `Stapley Ave', which is now known as Birrarung Marr.
Unveiled 23 April 1936
","object_type":"Drinking Fountain","art_date":"1936","inscription":"Stapley Ave","longitude":"-37.81891097559535","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Parks Services Branch","makers":"Unknown","property":"Birrarung Marr","classification":"Memorials","title":"Stapley Memorial Drinking Fountain"},{"_id":40,"geo_point_2d":"-37.791550224794335, 144.95808647651077","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.95808647651077, -37.791550224794335], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Royal Park approximately 26m SW of Mar Thoma Syrian Church Australia, 149 Royal Parade, Parkville, 3052","latitude":"144.95808647651077","asset_id":"1091175","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"The memorial is a marble statue of a World War I soldier, standing easy and holding a rifle, on a grey granite pediment on a 3-stepped granite base.
The monumental mason was Peter Morgan Jageurs of Jageurs & Son, Parkville who had to include the name of his son, John among the dead. In July 1916, Johns' division was ordered to attack the German lines near the French village of Pozières. John was one of the thousands of Australians who were slaughtered during that two week battle. As the historian C E W Bean later wrote, the Pozières ridge `is more densely sown with Australian sacrifice than any other place on earth.'
The monument was erected on Sunday 4th October, 1925
","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"1925","inscription":"Front Inscription: Australian Commonwealth Military Forces/In memory of the soldiers of this district who fell in the Great War 1914-1918 (names)
Back Inscription: (Names) WE DIED FOR COUNTRY ; LIVE YE FOR IT","longitude":"-37.791550224794335","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":null,"makers":"Jageurs, Peter Morgan
","property":"Royal Park","classification":"Memorials","title":"Parkville Diggers Memorial (WWI Memorial)"},{"_id":41,"geo_point_2d":"-37.81528506774349, 144.9387694921899","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.9387694921899, -37.81528506774349], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Newquay Central approximately 56m North of Almina @ Docklands, 106 Newquay Promenade, Docklands, 3008","latitude":"144.9387694921899","asset_id":"1561982","history":null,"owner_type":"Not Owned","description":"Walk of Stars is a Hollywood-style celebration of Australian entertainers from sculptor Peter Cortlett and muralist Jamie Cooper. Initiated by the children's charity Variety, Walk of Stars includes a mural depicting significant Australian performing artists of the stage and screen, star plaques for 100 individual performing artists and four bronze statues of celebrity artists of the last century - Dame Nellie Melba, Kylie Minogue, Graham Kennedy and John Farnham.","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"2006","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.81528506774349","company":"VicUrban","service_manager":null,"makers":"Peter Cortlett and Jamie Cooper","property":"Newquay Central","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Walk of Stars"},{"_id":42,"geo_point_2d":"-37.823612183804784, 144.97041853309003","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.97041853309003, -37.823612183804784], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":"St Kilda Road between Southbank Boulevard and Grant Street","location":"St Kilda Road between Southbank Boulevard and Grant Street approximately 67m North of Faculty Of The VCA & Music, Building 871, 204-234 St Kilda Road, Southbank, 3006","latitude":"144.97041853309003","asset_id":"1545276","history":null,"owner_type":null,"description":"Bronze statue of Edmund FitzGibbon depicted in a barrister's gown and wig, with Harcourt granite pedestal, 1908
James White trained as a sculptor in London before arriving in Sydney in 1884. In the early 1900s he was much in demand as a portraitist and bronze caster. His statue of Edmund FitzGibbon depicts his subject in a barrister's gown and wig, in reference to his admission to the bar in 1860, which followed several years of study while maintaining his duties as town clerk.
Edmund FitzGibbon was born in Ireland and worked as a clerk in London before immigrating to Australia in 1852. Four years later, he became Melbourne's town clerk. FitzGibbon secured several parks and gardens for the city and was instrumental in introducing tram tracks. In 1891, he became the first chair of the Melbourne Metropolitan Board of Works. This memorial was funded by public subscription and unveiled in 1908. It originally stood at the southern end of Princes Bridge, but was relocated in 1971 due to construction of the underpass. In 1983, it was relocated to Spring Street, before five years later being placed in storage. In 2003, it was sited in its current position, chosen for its proximity to the original site.","object_type":"Memorial","art_date":"1908","inscription":"EDMUND GERALD / FITZ GIBBON JP CMG / TOWN CLERK / OF THE / CITY OF MELBOURNE / 1856-1891 / FIRST CHAIRMAN / OF THE / MELBOURNE AND METROPOLITAN / BOARD OF WORKS / 1891-1905","longitude":"-37.823612183804784","company":null,"service_manager":null,"makers":"White, James","property":null,"classification":"Sculpture","title":"Edmund FitzGibbon Memorial"},{"_id":43,"geo_point_2d":"-37.8113298032748, 144.93795521998828","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.93795521998828, -37.8113298032748], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Costco approximately 92m North of Nando's, Ground, 1 Star Circus, Docklands, 3008","latitude":"144.93795521998828","asset_id":"1562803","history":null,"owner_type":"Not Owned","description":"Heavy Metal Jam Session is a striking landscape of strangely familiar objects. A shipping pallet, stools, hoops and other domestic and industrial objects have been `jammed' together in playful combination of scale, colour and form.","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"2009","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.8113298032748","company":"VicUrban","service_manager":null,"makers":"Louise Paramor","property":"Costco","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Heavy Metal Jam Session"},{"_id":44,"geo_point_2d":"-37.822028087763435, 144.97035525342713","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.97035525342713, -37.822028087763435], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Queen Victoria Gardens","latitude":"144.97035525342713","asset_id":"1086728","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Also known as The Hammer Thrower. Bronze figure of a hammer thrower.
Mining giant Conzinc Riotinto (now known as Rio Tinto) commissioned Robinson's The Pathfinder, which they planned to install in their proposed new building. When the building failed to go ahead, the `dynamic' sculpture of the hammer thrower in action was placed on long-term loan with the City of Melbourne, which sited the bronze in the Queen Victoria Gardens. The hammer held by the figure has been stolen several times and duly returned or replaced by another. Lord Mayor Councillor Whalley unveiled The Pathfinder in April 1974.
Artist John Robinson has a long history with Australia. Born in London in 1935, he came to Australia briefly during the war as a child evacuated to escape the German bombing of London. He returned in 1952, living on the land in South Australia, which is where he rediscovered his early talent for sculpture. Returning to England in 1969, he devoted himself to sculpture full time. Robinson's reputation as a figurative sculptor grew quickly. In 1973, the City of London commissioned his Hammer Thrower. In 1974, he began to focus on more symbolic forms. Robinson's major commissions include four sculptures for the Australian Institute of Sport, Canberra, Gymnast for the New Olympic Museum, Lausanne, and The Pathfinder and Water Children, now with the City of Melbourne.","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"1974","inscription":"THE PATHFINDER / JOHN ROBINSON ' SCULPTOR / LOANED TO THE MELBOURNE CITY COUNCIL / BY COURTESY OF CONZINC RIOTINTO OF / AUSTRALIA LIMITED","longitude":"-37.822028087763435","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"Robinson, John Edward
","property":"Queen Victoria Gardens","classification":"Sculpture","title":"The Pathfinder"},{"_id":45,"geo_point_2d":"-37.81394408497868, 144.94655537163678","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.94655537163678, -37.81394408497868], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":"Digital Drive","location":"Digital Drive approximately 64m NW of O-Bento, Shop 2, Ground, 990 La Trobe Street, Docklands, 3008","latitude":"144.94655537163678","asset_id":"1562897","history":null,"owner_type":"Not Owned","description":"Cameron Robbins is an artist with a deep interest in natural forces, and he naturally chose water as the subject of this video installation projected on the façade of the Melbourne Water building. It reveals the magnificent behaviour of vortex, which parallels that which appears in larger parts of the natural world such as cyclones and galaxies. Sometimes appearing like an avid dancer and a creature at another time, the vortex continually mesmerises viewers. Viewable from the Western elevation of 990 La Trobe from dusk.","object_type":"Audio Visual Artwork","art_date":"2012","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.81394408497868","company":null,"service_manager":null,"makers":"Cameron Robbins","property":null,"classification":"Unknown","title":"Structure of Vortices"},{"_id":46,"geo_point_2d":"-37.824013514390046, 144.97415155124347","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.97415155124347, -37.824013514390046], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Sidney Myer Music Bowl","latitude":"144.97415155124347","asset_id":"1086742","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Miraggio, a bronze statue of a slender young woman listening to music, came into the city's public art collection in 1964. An anonymous `Lover of Italy' donated it to the Sidney Myer Music Bowl Trust and Melbourne City Council. Following the re-landscaping of the site, Miraggio was reinstalled in October 2001. To be faithful to the donor's wishes and the apparent intent behind the work, the figure is installed as if she were part of the audience.","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"1964","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.824013514390046","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"CONTE, Pino","property":"Sidney Myer Music Bowl","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Miraggio [also known as Seated Figure]"},{"_id":47,"geo_point_2d":"-37.80982754352814, 144.9640460882066","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.9640460882066, -37.80982754352814], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":"Swanston Street between Little Lonsdale Street and La Trobe Street","location":"Swanston Street between Little Lonsdale Street and La Trobe Street approximately 49m East of Melbourne Central Station, 183-201 La Trobe Street, Melbourne, 3000","latitude":"144.9640460882066","asset_id":"1086745","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"A triangular pyramid shape constructed of steel onto which Port Fairy bluestone slabs are affixed. The sculpture represents an enlarged fragment of the State Library buried in the pavement. The frieze has been partly inscribed with the word 'Library', gilded with gold leaf. The work is hollow and the weight supported by the existing foundation at the site, no anchoring of the work is present as it is inset into the surrounding bluestone pavers, cut to fit precisely around the work.
Sited outside the State Library of Victoria, the pyramidal, Port Fairy bluestone sculpture represents a fragment of the library emerging from the pavement as an archaeological artefact might. It has been conceived to engage with its environment, visually connecting to its surroundings through both form and material.
","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"1992","inscription":"partly inscribed with the word \"Library\"","longitude":"-37.80982754352814","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"Spronk, Petrus
","property":null,"classification":"Sculpture","title":"Architectural Fragment"},{"_id":48,"geo_point_2d":"-37.82115251478746, 144.96423807327005","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.96423807327005, -37.82115251478746], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":"Southbank Promenade between Riverside Quay and Southbank Promenade","location":"Riverside Quay Reserve","latitude":"144.96423807327005","asset_id":"1088256","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Originally, Fault Line, created for its Southbank site, comprised a 70-metre granite path to the river's edge, a derelict wooden jetty, a sandstone-veneer `ruin' and two bronze half-figures and a rowboat. The sculpture reflected Hossein Valamanesh's abiding interest in memory, destruction and survival.
Fault Line was partially decommissioned in 2007. By then, the two figures had already been irreparably damaged and were removed, and the sandstone `ruin' at the southern extremity had become impossible to maintain and keep safe. The regrettable decision was made to decommission these elements of the work, along with the bronze rowing boat and single oar that had not been stolen. In an effort to retain some presence of the `ruin', a trace of its plan was made using the original sandstone. This memory trace is flush with the surrounding ground surface. The boat and remaining oar have been stored offsite.
Unveiled 6 October 1996
","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"1996","inscription":"FAULTLINE / HOSSEIN VALAMANESH / 1996","longitude":"-37.82115251478746","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"Valamanesh, Hossein","property":"Riverside Quay Reserve","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Faultline"},{"_id":49,"geo_point_2d":"-37.80376916863335, 144.97213425650625","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.97213425650625, -37.80376916863335], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Exhibition Building & Melbourne Museum","latitude":"144.97213425650625","asset_id":"1091293","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Lie of the Land comprises seven sandstone pillars standing some three metres high. Each pillar is inscribed with a commodity that John Batman lists in his diary as an item he traded with Wurundjeri elders in 1835 to secure 600,000 acres of their land around Port Phillip Bay: `blankets', `knives', `looking glasses', `tomahawks', `beads', `scissors' and `flour'. Knowles' soundscape accompanies this compelling work, with Batman's entry on the controversial exchange read out in Woiwurrung ' the local Indigenous language ' and several other languages representing the ethnic groups present in Australia around the time of settlement. The etched pillars are a powerful symbol; tombstone-like, they speak the fate of many Indigenous people through the process of settlement and colonisation.
Lie of the Land was commissioned by the City of Melbourne to coincide with the Australian Reconciliation Convention, held in Melbourne in May 1997, and the 30th anniversary of the 1967 referendum, which gave Indigenous Australians the right to vote. The sculpture was originally sited outside the Town Hall on Bourke Street and was later moved to a forecourt of Melbourne Museum.
Placed near the entrance to Melbourne Museum, this sculpture also speaks eloquently of the relationship this institution once had with Indigenous peoples, collecting often-sacred items and relics, and at times by inappropriate means. In relation to the historical and political nature of this work, Fiona Foley has stated, `As the history has been written by the victors, it is only now that the silent histories of the Indigenous populations are given a voice'.
Launched 19 May 1997","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"1997","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.80376916863335","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"FOLEY, Fiona; KNOWLES, Chris","property":"Exhibition Building & Melbourne Museum","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Lie of the Land"},{"_id":50,"geo_point_2d":"-37.78892811780881, 144.95605810687638","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.95605810687638, -37.78892811780881], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Royal Park","latitude":"144.95605810687638","asset_id":"1086725","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"On 20 August 1860, some 15,000 Melburnians gathered at Royal Park to farewell the 18 members of the Victorian Exploring Expedition, led by Robert O'Hara Burke. This stone cairn marks the expedition's departure point.
Soon after the tragedy, a fence was placed around a tree near their departure point. In 1890, the fence was removed and this cairn was erected about 180 metres east of the tree.
","object_type":"Cairn","art_date":"1890","inscription":"Plaque: `This memorial has been erected / to mark the spot from whence the / Burke and Wills / Expedition started on the 20th August 1860 / After successfully accomplishing their mission / the two brave leaders perished on their return / journey at Coopers Creek in June 1861.'","longitude":"-37.78892811780881","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"Unknown","property":"Royal Park","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Burke & Wills Cairn"},{"_id":51,"geo_point_2d":"-37.82007937885384, 144.96296054938466","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.96296054938466, -37.82007937885384], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":"Sandridge Rail Bridge between Southbank Promenade and Flinders Walk","location":"Queensbridge Square approximately 16m NE of Sandridge Rail Bridge, Southbank, 3006","latitude":"144.96296054938466","asset_id":"1092435","history":"
","owner_type":"Owned","description":"The Travellers celebrates Indigenous presence and the meeting of cultures through migration. It comprises ten large-scale sculptures, each approximately 7.5 metres tall and collectively incorporating 3.7 kilometres of stainless steel. Nine of the ten figures are motorised and at regular intervals move along the length of Sandridge Bridge, sited near a former Aboriginal meeting ground and near the landing point where many early migrants stepped ashore. Built in 1888, the bridge is the third to occupy this site, the original constructed in 1853.
Each of the ten figures comprising the work represents a phase of arrival, as historian James Jupp has defined these. The figures, graphic and abstracted in form, are Gayip (Aboriginal period); First Settler (convict period); Melbourne Beauty (gold rushes); Walker and His Tucker Bag (assisted migration); Shelter (displaced persons); Urban Wheel (European migration); Running Couple (refugees); Butterfly Girl (Asian and Middle Eastern migration); Technoman (students and professionals); and Walking Sun (multiculturalism). Below the figures, a series of etched glass panels stretch across the bridge, a component in this history of migration to Australia
This work was commissioned by the City of Melbourne and Victorian government, and launched in 2005.","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"2005","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.82007937885384","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"Karam, Nadim
","property":"Queensbridge Square","classification":"Sculpture","title":"The Travellers"},{"_id":52,"geo_point_2d":"-37.822153249778246, 144.9709506469274","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.9709506469274, -37.822153249778246], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Queen Victoria Gardens","latitude":"144.9709506469274","asset_id":"1086730","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Winged figure positioned in a pond.
Baroness Yrsa Von Leister's winged figure reaches some three metres above the waters of a pond in Queen Victoria Gardens. Originally associated with ancient Egyptians' longings for immortality, the phoenix in Christianity has long been linked to resurrection and everlasting life. Von Leister sculpted the symbolic figure for the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Melbourne following the 40th International Eucharistic Congress, held here in 1973. Archbishop Cardinal Knox then donated the work to the Melbourne City Council for the support it had shown during the congress.
Von Leister flew to Australia to complete finishing touches to the rough-hewn sculpture prior to its unveiling. In March 1976, the Most Reverend T.F. Little gifted the sculpture to the citizens of Melbourne on behalf of the Melbourne Diocesan Historical Commission. He said, `The ' phoenix is accepted throughout the world as symbolising everlasting life. It glorifies Him who is truth and eternal life.'
","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"1973","inscription":"THE PHOENIX / SCULPTED BY YRSA VON LEISTER / A GIFT TO THE CITY OF MELBOURNE / FROM THE 40TH INTERNATIONAL EUCHARIST CONGRESS / MELBOURNE - FEBRUARY 1973","longitude":"-37.822153249778246","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"Leister, Baroness Yrsa Von","property":"Queen Victoria Gardens","classification":"Sculpture","title":"The Phoenix"},{"_id":53,"geo_point_2d":"-37.8143735830792, 144.974719996297","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.974719996297, -37.8143735830792], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Treasury Gardens approximately 10m East of 2-18 Spring Street, East Melbourne, 3002","latitude":"144.974719996297","asset_id":"1086523","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Standing figure of Robert Burns cast in bronze. The over life-size figure is depicted in tails and breeches with arms folded across the chest suggesting a powerful spirit. The psychology of the face reveals one of deep concentration. The figure stands on a square bronze plinth that is fixed to a large four-sided stepped granite pedestal. On each face of the pedestal is a bronze relief.
The cost of the work, cast in London, was approximately 1000 pounds. Nearly every Scotsman in Melbourne was said to have contributed to the cost of the work. The statue was originally located on the west side of St Kilda Road where Sir John Madden, Lieutenant Governor, unveiled the statue on 23 January 1904. The statue was moved to its current site in the Treasury Gardens in 1970 due to a change in the profile of St Kilda Rd with both the developments of the NGV and the Victorian College of the Arts occurring in the area. The Robert Burns Memorial remains an important symbol of the contribution that Scottish immigrants made to the early development of Victoria; many of the first graziers and squatters in Gippsland and the Western District were of Scottish descent. The memorial is a uniting symbol for the Melbourne''''''''s Scottish community and is an important part of Melbourne''''''''s cultural heritage.
Poet Robert Burns is perhaps one of the most famous characters in Scottish history. His importance is immense, not only in terms of his work, but for his influence on the poetry and culture of Scotland. Robert Burns was born on 25th January 1759, in the tiny village of Alloway, Ayrshire, near Ayr on the West Coast of Scotland. The son of a poor peasant farmer, Burns grew up in abject poverty and was forced labour long hours throughout his childhood. Despite their poverty Burns'''''''' father recognised the value of education and contracted the services of local teacher, John Murdoch. From an early age it was apparent that Burns was a gifted scholar, writing his first piece Handsome Nell (a poem about his first love and the first of many odes to women) at the age of 15. Unlucky in love Burns resolved to emigrate to the West Indies, intending to pay for his passage with the proceeds from the publication of his first book, Poems, Chiefly in Scottish Dialect, published in 1786. The publication immediately captured the hearts of the Scottish public and was considered to be one of the greatest collections of poetry ever written. Enjoying his new found celebrity, Burns began to write profusely publishing many poems, among them perhaps his most famous piece Auld Lang Syne. Burns'''''''' appeal was universal; his words resonated with the ruling class, the educated and the common folk alike. Love and sympathy were his greatest themes and he often paid tribute to the working class in his works. Burns died in extreme poverty of rheumatic fever in 1796 at the age of 37.
","object_type":"Statue","art_date":"1903","inscription":"Bronze base right: G. Lawson Sc / London. 1903
Bronze base left: Hollinshead and Burton Founders / Thames Ditton London
Plinth front: Erected / under the auspices / of the / Caledonian Society / Melbourne 1904","longitude":"-37.8143735830792","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"Lawson, George Anderson","property":"Treasury Gardens","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Robert Burns Memorial"},{"_id":54,"geo_point_2d":"-37.81026398841038, 144.9550390225417","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.9550390225417, -37.81026398841038], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Flagstaff Gardens approximately 38m South of City of Melbourne, Flagstaff Gardens Tennis Courts, Flagstaff Gardens, 311 William Street, West Melbourne, 3003","latitude":"144.9550390225417","asset_id":"1086513","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"A dynamic bronze statue representing a llithe, vital youth and his pet lion cub playing boisterously together. It captures them at the moment when the cub, crouching low is tugging fiercly at the youths cloak, entwined around his muscular arm. In his right hand he clasps a decorated baton with an elephant head carved at the tip. The statue sits atop a simple rectangular grey granite pedestal, which contains a bronze inscription.
Montford's The Court Favourite captures the action of a lithe youth playing with his boisterous pet lion cub. The cub crouches low and tugs fiercely at the youth's cloak. In his right hand the youth clasps a decorated baton, its handpiece a carved elephant head.
Councillor Baron Marks donated the statue to the Melbourne City Council. He had initially donated £200 towards statuary for Melbourne's parks and gardens, but when The Court Favourite became available he increased his donation to £400. The work was unveiled at a formal ceremony on 6 February 1930.","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"1930","inscription":"THE COURT FAVOURITE / PRESENTED TO THE CITY OF MELBOURNE / BY C.R. BARON MARKS, J.P., 1930","longitude":"-37.81026398841038","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"Montford, Paul
","property":"Flagstaff Gardens","classification":"Sculpture","title":"The Court Favourite"},{"_id":55,"geo_point_2d":"-37.81009689038864, 144.96416511332632","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.96416511332632, -37.81009689038864], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":"Swanston Street between Little Lonsdale Street and La Trobe Street","location":"Swanston Street between Little Lonsdale Street and La Trobe Street approximately 31m NE of Unit 1102, 339 Swanston Street, Melbourne, 3000","latitude":"144.96416511332632","asset_id":"1086747","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Jennifer McCarthy's sculpture comprises three poles painted in a colourful, highly decorative style. This work is not considered permanent. The City of Melbourne commissioned the work as part of the Swanston Street Walk Public Art Project.","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"1992","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.81009689038864","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"McCarthy, Jennifer","property":null,"classification":"Sculpture","title":"Painted Poles 1 [State Library of Victoria]"},{"_id":56,"geo_point_2d":"-37.810801354472574, 144.95395452560433","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.95395452560433, -37.810801354472574], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Flagstaff Gardens approximately 88m NE of Haileybury City, Basement , Ground & Level 1-9, 383 King Street, West Melbourne, 3003","latitude":"144.95395452560433","asset_id":"1091171","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"A sandstone obelisk. Originally a pointed section was on top, however this has since disappeared.
Flagstaff Gardens once had special significance for the people of Melbourne. It was a place of hope and a place of sorrow. Early colonists could sight incoming ships from this high point, which brought tangible links with the old country; and known as Burial Hill, it was also the city''''''''s first burial ground. This latter role is reflected well in the Gothic architecture of the memorial, for as if wrested from an English church it is a reminder that this final resting place for an estimated six early settlers is a long way from ''''''''home''''''''.
The rapid growth of Melbourne made the site unsuitable as a cemetery, so a new burial ground was established at what is now Queen Victoria Market. Save for two wattle trees, the graves of the first buried went unmarked until 1871. The Department of Public Works then commissioned a sandstone obelisk by Samuel Craven for this purpose, its pointed uppermost section now missing. The memorial was erected in April 1871, and at the time of its unveiling a large cross was cut into the lawns surrounding it. Its inscription reads: ''''''''Erected in 1871/ to the memory of/ some of the earliest of the pioneers of this colony/ whose remains were interred near this spot''''''''.
","object_type":"Monument","art_date":"1871","inscription":"ERECTED IN 1871/TO THE MEMORY OF/SOME OF THE EARLIEST OF THE PIONEERS OF THIS COLONY/WHOSE REMAINS WERE INTERRED NEAR THIS SPOT","longitude":"-37.810801354472574","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"CRAVEN, Samuel
","property":"Flagstaff Gardens","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Pioneer Monument"},{"_id":57,"geo_point_2d":"-37.79759910577447, 144.96730652384852","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.96730652384852, -37.79759910577447], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":"Lygon Street between Faraday Street and Elgin Street","location":"Lygon Street between Faraday Street and Elgin Street approximately 7m North of Heartattack and Vine, 329 Lygon Street, Carlton, 3053","latitude":"144.96730652384852","asset_id":"1091147","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"This small cast-iron fountain is named in honour of Dinny O'Hearn, an Irish-Australian literary critic and man of letters who had a long association with the nearby University of Melbourne. O'Hearn and much of Melbourne's literary establishment of his generation has also enjoyed a long association with Jimmy Watson's, the wine bar outside of which the fountain is sited. O'Hearn died in 1993, at the age of 56.
","object_type":"Fountain","art_date":"1981","inscription":"Circular plaque: In memory of D. J. O''''Hearn 14.3.37 - 15.7.93 / `Dinny`/ Erected by his friends and the City of Melbourme","longitude":"-37.79759910577447","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Parks Services Branch","makers":"Unknown","property":null,"classification":"Memorials","title":"Dinny O''''Hearn Fountain"},{"_id":58,"geo_point_2d":"-37.80813550681884, 144.95764591736565","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.95764591736565, -37.80813550681884], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Queen Victoria Market approximately 20m South of Market Espresso & Trolley Hire, Trolley Hire, Queen Victoria Market, Victoria Street, Melbourne, 3000","latitude":"144.95764591736565","asset_id":"1086726","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Bluestone cairn with upper and lower plinths. A low fence surrounds the cairn.
John Batman is best known as a founding father of Melbourne. A prosperous Tasmanian farmer, he looked to Victoria to increase his grazing lands. In 1835, Batman made his controversial `treaty' with Wurundjeri elders and returned to Launceston to make arrangements for the new settlement. On returning to Victoria some months later, he found John Pascoe Fawkner had already settled the site of Melbourne. With his health declining, he settled on Batman's Hill, near the present site of the Southern Cross Railway Station. He died of syphilis just four years later in 1839.
Batman was buried in the old Melbourne cemetery (since 1922 the Queen Victorian Market), but no headstone marked his grave. When interest in Batman arose 40 years later it was near impossible to establish his burial place. Once found, a bluestone monument was erected in his memory. In 1922, the cemetery was de-registered and the monument moved to the north bank of the Yarra at Swan Street Bridge. Batman's remains were exhumed and re-interred in the Fawkner Cemetery, named, ironically, in honour of his archrival. The monument was later returned to its original site.
","object_type":"Cairn","art_date":"1881","inscription":"Upper plinth: JOHN BATMAN / BORN AT PARRAMATTA N.S.W. 1800 / DIED AT MELBOURNE 6TH MAY 1839 / HE ENTERED PORT PHILLIP HEADS / 29TH MAY 1835 / AS LEADER OF AN EXPEDITION WHICH / HE HAD ORGANISED IN LAUNCESTON V.D.L. / TO FORM A SETTLEMENT AND FOUNDED ONE / ON THE SITE OF MELBOURNE THEN UNOCCUPIED
Brass plate attached to lower plinth: The city of Melbourne acknowledges that the historical events and perceptions referred to by / this memorial are inaccurate. An apology is made to indigenous people and to the traditional / owners of this land for the wrong beliefs of the past and the personal upset caused.
Lower plinth: THIS MONUMENT WAS / ERECTED / BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION IN / VICTORIA / 1881 / CIRCUMSPICE / J W BROWN / CARLTON","longitude":"-37.80813550681884","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"Brown, J. W.","property":"Queen Victoria Market","classification":"Sculpture","title":"John Batman Memorial"},{"_id":59,"geo_point_2d":"-37.81295406528951, 144.96526492561978","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.96526492561978, -37.81295406528951], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":"Swanston Street between Bourke Street and Little Bourke Street","location":"Swanston Street between Bourke Street and Little Bourke Street approximately 7m NE of Haigh's Chocolates, Shop 6, 201 Swanston Street, Melbourne, 3000","latitude":"144.96526492561978","asset_id":"1086749","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Brass inlaid into bluestone pavers.
In 1988, Robert Jacks spent six months in Cornwall, England, during which he filled 28 sketchbooks with drawings based on graffiti from museums and the streets. Personal Islands takes its inspiration from those sketches, transforming the illicit art of graffiti into a sanctioned and more permanent form.
This work was commissioned on the 21st of September 1992 as part of the Swanston Street Walk Public Art Project and the City of Melbourne''''''''s Percent for Art Program. The program, adopted in 1992, allocates one percent of the City of Melbourne''''''''s capital works budget to funding public art. Its goal was to enable \"public art to be successfully integrated into the fabric of design and development in the city.\"
","object_type":"Pavement inlay","art_date":"1992","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.81295406528951","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"Jacks, Robert","property":null,"classification":"Sculpture","title":"Personal Islands"},{"_id":60,"geo_point_2d":"-37.77886822107428, 144.9611151855207","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.9611151855207, -37.77886822107428], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Princes Park approximately 93m West of Princes Park Carlton Bowls Club, Princes Park, 109 Bowen Crescent, Carlton North, 3054","latitude":"144.9611151855207","asset_id":"1088068","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Within Three Worlds comprises a bronze figure of a young girl looking out over a pond, in which three vessels sit. The figure represents Anna as a child, but is an `every child' that embodies the innocence of youth and possibilities of the future.
Angela Jane Esdaile was born in Melbourne at St Andrews Hospital on February 19, 1969 and was 24 years old when she died of acute asthma in December 1993, while walking with friends along Rye beach. She was a tireless community worker, who made a significant contribution to the community, particularly with regards to children and young adults. She organised her first community project when she was just 8 years old. Following Angela's death, her family donated funds towards a memorial artwork. In 1994, local artist Loretta Quinn was commissioned to undertake this work, which would commemorate Angela's contribution to the community, as well as those of all childcare workers.
","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"1995","inscription":"Within three worlds/ Loretta Quinn/1994/ In memory of Angela Jane Esdaile/ 19 Feb 1969 - 28 Dec 1993","longitude":"-37.77886822107428","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"Quinn, Loretta
","property":"Princes Park","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Within Three Worlds"},{"_id":61,"geo_point_2d":"-37.82010166444847, 144.9594543545535","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.9594543545535, -37.82010166444847], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Enterprize Park approximately 54m East of Enterprize Park, 469-503 Flinders Street, Melbourne, 3000","latitude":"144.9594543545535","asset_id":"1092434","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Scar trees are found in many parts of Australia, physically marking the historical presence of Indigenous people. Scar trees are produced by the removal of bark for the purpose of making canoes, coolamons and shields, but also for more sacred purposes, such as to indicate a burial site. Significant cultural artefacts, scar trees are vectors for cultural identity, essential in establishing pre-contact occupation of an area and important in understanding traditional culture and practices.
Sited at Enterprize Park, on the northern bank of the Yarra River just west of Queens Bridge, Scar ' A Stolen Vision is a collaborative work by Indigenous artists that engages with the tradition of tree scarring. The installation symbolises the landscape marked by scar trees, articulating the presence of Indigenous people and their connection to country. The term `scar' links with wounds, healing and memory ' concepts embodied in the work.
Artistic director Kimba Thompson brought together seven visual artists to create contemporary works that convey tradition and underscore continuity with past practices. Karen Casey, Craig Charles, Glenn Romanis, Maree Clarke, Ray Thomas, Ricardo Idagi and Treahna Hamm worked on 30 pier poles recycled from the Docklands project along the Yarra. Carving, burning, painting and reshaping the poles, the artists impart stories relating to their culture, people and history through their own distinctive art practices ' essentially modern forms of tree scarring.
Scar was commissioned by the City of Melbourne as part of Federation events in Victoria, and was co-funded by Arts Victoria and the state government. It was first displayed in City Square in March 2001, at which time it included a soundscape by Lou Bennett and Peter Mumme, which layered the histories and communities of the scar poles with sounds that mimicked their production. The poles were relocated to Enterprize Park in 2003.","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"2001","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.82010166444847","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":null,"makers":"Thompson, Kimba; Thomas, Ray; Romanis, Glenn; Hamm, Treahna; Idigi, Ricardo; Clarke, Maree; Casey, Karen; Charles, Craig; Bennett, Lou","property":"Enterprize Park","classification":"Indigenous","title":"Scar - A Stolen Vision"},{"_id":62,"geo_point_2d":"-37.81712234813621, 144.9452797351126","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.9452797351126, -37.81712234813621], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":"Harbour Esplanade between Bourke Street and La Trobe Street","location":"Harbour Esplanade between Bourke Street and La Trobe Street approximately 71m NW of 119-129 Harbour Esplanade, Docklands, 3008","latitude":"144.9452797351126","asset_id":"1092460","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Kelly's surreal sculpture on Harbour Esplanade, near the Telstra Dome, is cast in five tonnes of bronze and stands eight metres high.
John Kelly's Cow Up a Tree at first seems something of a whimsical work, but the sculpture has its roots in serious historical events. The artist was inspired to create this work after seeing images of cows swept away during terrible flooding in Gippsland; when the floodwaters subsided the carcass of one cow was stranded high and dry in a tree. The work's other inspiration was in Australian artist William Dobell. With the beast's long neck and small head, Cow Up in a Tree is aesthetically linked to Dobell's Archibald Prize-winning portrait of Joshua Smith, a painting enmeshed in an infamous court case during World War II in which `art' was put on trial. But during the war Dobell worked in the area of camouflage, and one of his projects was to produce papier mâché cows to be placed on an airfield in the hope of foiling Japanese pilots. Kelly's sculpture brings these stories together, pondering the fate of Dobell's cows should the Gippsland flood have inundated the airfield.
","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"2000","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.81712234813621","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":null,"makers":"Kelly, John
","property":null,"classification":"Sculpture","title":"Cow Up A Tree"},{"_id":63,"geo_point_2d":"-37.81452431106299, 144.9406088500888","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.9406088500888, -37.81452431106299], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":"Caravel Lane between Rakaia Way and Dopel Way","location":"Caravel Lane between Rakaia Way and Dopel Way approximately 4m NE of Lexy Group, 37 Caravel Lane, Docklands, 3008","latitude":"144.9406088500888","asset_id":"1560969","history":null,"owner_type":"Not Owned","description":"This three-dimensional frieze is inspired by Sidney Nolan's 1946 Ned Kelly paintings. The Australian landscape is represented by the undulating façade walls, which are treated with a unique \"pixelated\" perforation method that produces complex shadow plays. The helmet-like corner nodes are references to the Kelly masks; they frame the mirrored sculptures within, reflecting a morphing vista of sunlight and sky that moves gently in silent tribute to the waves of the sea.","object_type":"Artwork","art_date":"2006","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.81452431106299","company":"VicUrban","service_manager":null,"makers":"Alexander Knox","property":null,"classification":"Unknown","title":"Ned and Dan"},{"_id":64,"geo_point_2d":"-37.81376751528837, 144.9827717629652","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.9827717629652, -37.81376751528837], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Fitzroy Gardens approximately 47m NW of Holy Trinity Anglican Church, 72-80 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne, 3002","latitude":"144.9827717629652","asset_id":"1086731","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Pyrmont sandstone sculpture depicting a boy sitting on the back of a pelican which has its wing outstrached. The figure is perched atop a Pyrmont sandstone self-base.
A special art sub-committee was established in the 1930s to assist the City Council Parks and Gardens Committee select statuary appropriate for the City''''''''s Gardens. This sculpture is one that replaced the much deteriorated plaster statuary in Fitzroy Gardens, which Clement Hodgkinson had donated in the 1860s. It was one of three works created by Bowles for this purpose. This statue and his Mermaid and Fish were originally placed at the Clarendon Street entrance to the gardens on the 5 October 1936, while his Diana and the Hounds is sited at the conservatory. The head of the boy was replaced in 1973, the statue having fallen victim to vandalism.","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"1936","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.81376751528837","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"BOWLES, William Leslie","property":"Fitzroy Gardens","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Boy and Pelican"},{"_id":65,"geo_point_2d":"-37.81147505688505, 144.95316544392688","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.95316544392688, -37.81147505688505], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":"Jeffcott Street between Spencer Street and King Street","location":"Jeffcott Street between Spencer Street and King Street approximately 12m North of Committo, Unit 501-502, 7 Jeffcott Street, West Melbourne, 3003","latitude":"144.95316544392688","asset_id":"1088257","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Cast in Fitzroy's Meridian Foundry, the sculpture consists of five naked figures, including an infant, balanced against half disks attached to a central column. Two of the disks feature iconography that links this `family' to both the domestic space and the city fabric. While this is a large piece set on an imposing concrete base, a certain lightness is achieved though the aerial poses of the figures.
In June 1995, Central Equity Homes commissioned Andrew Rogers to design a sculpture to locate outside their West Melbourne residential development. The 6.5-metre-high City Living is the result of that commission. City Living was donated to the City of Melbourne in 1996.
","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"1995","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.81147505688505","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"Rogers, Andrew","property":null,"classification":"Sculpture","title":"City Living"},{"_id":66,"geo_point_2d":"-37.81129433750379, 144.97316901010473","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.97316901010473, -37.81129433750379], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":"Intersection of Spring Street and Bourke Street","location":"Intersection of Spring Street and Bourke Street approximately 21m South of Victorian Parliament, 160 Spring Street, East Melbourne, 3002","latitude":"144.97316901010473","asset_id":"1088168","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"This is one of several public artworks commissioned for the Another View walking trail, only some of which remain. The trail was created to recognise the shared history of particular city sites. Located outside Parliament House, this paving inlay uses `Ceremony', 1897 a painting by the last traditional ngurungaeta (elder) of the Wurundjeri-willam clan, William Barak, to reference the past of this site as a traditional ceremonial ground and a meeting place for the people of the Kulin nation.","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"1994","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.81129433750379","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"Thomas, Ray
Evans, Megan","property":null,"classification":"Sculpture","title":"Another View Site 1"},{"_id":67,"geo_point_2d":"-37.81510417049893, 144.96646930561022","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.96646930561022, -37.81510417049893], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":"Swanston Street between Collins Street and Little Collins Street","location":"Swanston Street between Collins Street and Little Collins Street approximately 25m NE of Chatime, Shop 7, Ground, 101 Swanston Street, Melbourne, 3000","latitude":"144.96646930561022","asset_id":"1086748","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"The whaling, wool, cattle and maritime industries were all crucial to Melbourne's early development. To acknowledge the significance of these industries, City of Melbourne staff designed a set of brass pavement inlays that provide a modern interpretation of the symbols on the city's crest: the whale, cow, sheep and tugboat. The design is simple and bold, enabling each emblem to be easily read by passers-by. The work's intention is to highlight the role these industries played in the city's past, as well as the role the latter three continue to play.","object_type":"Pavement inlay","art_date":"1992","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.81510417049893","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"City of Melbourne","property":null,"classification":"Sculpture","title":"Coat of Arms"},{"_id":68,"geo_point_2d":"-37.825114779701025, 144.97607623602647","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.97607623602647, -37.825114779701025], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Kings Domain","latitude":"144.97607623602647","asset_id":"1091172","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Hugh Linaker's memorial garden is set in a circular depression, with a high wall of rough masonry covering the cutting at its southern end. This formal, symmetrical garden is traversed by a watercourse in the shape of a cross, which flows into a grotto carved into the cutting. Built into the grotto is a half-cupola lined with blue tiles, under which stands the small bronze statue of a woman by the sculptor Charles Web Gilbert. The garden was built by the Public Works Department.
In 1933, the Victorian government formed an all-male Centenary Celebrations Council in preparation for Melbourne's centenary the following year. The Women's Centenary Council was formed in an attempt to give the women of the state an influential role in the celebrations. At its first meeting, this council pledged to erect a suitable memorial to Victoria's pioneer women, and fundraising initiatives were established with the aim of developing a garden of remembrance in Kings Domain. The council's initiatives included the sale of a commemorative book and `sheets of remembrance' onto which anyone, for one shilling, could inscribe their own name, or that of an ancestor. This was very successful and thousands of names were gathered and then buried beneath the sundial in the garden. The work was carried out under the auspices of the Unemployment Relief Program during the Depression.
In November 1934, Victorian premier Thomas Argyle dedicated the garden, and in June 1935, Lady Huntingfield and the president of Women's Centenary Council, Mrs I.H. Moss, unveiled two bronze plaques.
","object_type":"Garden/Sculpture","art_date":"1934","inscription":"To honour the memory of the pioneer women of Victoria. This garden was dedicated by the Women''''''''s Centenary Council through public subscriptions on the 100th Anniversary of the foundation of the State, 1834-1934, unveiled June 8th by Mrs. I.H. Moss, Preside","longitude":"-37.825114779701025","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"Linaker, Hugh
","property":"Kings Domain","classification":"Memorials","title":"Pioneer Women''''''''s Memorial"},{"_id":69,"geo_point_2d":"-37.81371709478504, 144.98014070275568","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.98014070275568, -37.81371709478504], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Fitzroy Gardens approximately 89m NW of City of Melbourne, Sinclairs Cottage, Fitzroy Gardens, Wellington Parade, East Melbourne, 3002","latitude":"144.98014070275568","asset_id":"1091183","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"5 large basalt rocks - water flowing into a stream","object_type":"Waterfall","art_date":"c1933","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.81371709478504","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Parks Services Branch","makers":null,"property":"Fitzroy Gardens","classification":"Memorials","title":"Waterfall Fountain"},{"_id":70,"geo_point_2d":"-37.802834190764166, 144.96638556021273","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.96638556021273, -37.802834190764166], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Argyle Square","latitude":"144.96638556021273","asset_id":"1091292","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Shrine like architectural structure surmounted by life size bust of William Ievers. Architecture structure: bluestone steps grey Harcourt & red Finland granite.
Bust: white marble. Drinking element in base, under canopy.
Richardson sculpted three memorial fountains dedicated to the Ievers family, who donated them to the community in thanks for its support. William Jnr (1881-95), William Snr (1895-1901) and George Hawkins (1901-21) consecutively represented the Smith Ward over a period of 40 years. George Ievers proposed the fountains in 1913 as part of a beautification scheme coordinated by the Parks & Gardens Committee, of which he was a member. This was the first of the three memorials to be unveiled, which took place in August 1919.
","object_type":"Memorial Drinking Fountain","art_date":"1915","inscription":"ERECTED BY COUNCILOR GEORGE HAWKINS IEVERS / IN MEMORY OF HIS FATHER / COUNCILLOR WILLIAM IEVERS J.P. / A RESIDENT OF CARLTON FROM 1855 TO 1901 / AND A REPRESENTATIVE OF SMITH WARD IN THE / IN MELB. CITY COUNCIL FROM 1895 ' 1901 / A GOOD FATHER AND CITIZEN / 1819 - 1901","longitude":"-37.802834190764166","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Parks Services Branch","makers":"Richardson, Charles Douglas","property":"Argyle Square","classification":"Memorials","title":"William Ievers (Snr) Memorial Drinking Fountain"},{"_id":71,"geo_point_2d":"-37.81407567751222, 144.9785602548242","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.9785602548242, -37.81407567751222], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Fitzroy Gardens approximately 68m East of Toilet Fitzroy Gardens, 2 Lansdowne Street, East Melbourne, 3002","latitude":"144.9785602548242","asset_id":"1086727","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"A torso figure of Mary Gilbert
Ailsa O'Connor studied at RMIT and worked as a painter and then draughtsperson before taking up sculpture full time in the 1970s. Throughout her life, she was active in a number of organisations that sought to achieve equality for women, such as the Women's Progressive Movement. The sculpture was exhibited in 1975 and subsequently purchased by the City of Melbourne. It was unveiled by the Lady Mayoress, Barbara Walker, on 26th November 1975
O'Connor's interest in feminism and women's history is apparent in this work, which in part carries the inscription: `Mary gave birth to a son, the first white child born in the Port Phillip settlement, on 29 December 1835. As servants of John Pascoe Fawkner, Mary and her husband James Gilbert were in the original party of settlers who landed from the schooner Enterprise on 30 August 1835.' O'Connor claimed of Mary Gilbert that she was a `sort of proletarian founding mother'.
","object_type":"Bust","art_date":"1975","inscription":"Mary Gilbert / First Migrant Woman Settler / Ailsa O'Connor 1974 / Mary gave birth to a son, the first white child born in the / Port Phillip settlement on 29 December 1835. As servants / of John Pascoe Fawkner, Mary and her husband, blacksmith / James Gilbert, were in the original party of settlers who / landed from the schooner Enterprize on 30 August 1835.","longitude":"-37.81407567751222","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"O''''''''Connor, Ailsa","property":"Fitzroy Gardens","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Mary Gilbert Memorial"},{"_id":72,"geo_point_2d":"-37.80881692877836, 144.94368830128568","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.94368830128568, -37.80881692877836], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":"North Melbourne Railway","location":"Railway Viewing Platform","latitude":"144.94368830128568","asset_id":"1088162","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"This is a curious addition to the City of Melbourne's public art collection. Tucked away along quiet Railway Place, this platform is set in the embankment overlooking the tracks of a complex and busy train junction. Commanding a magnificent view to the west, the platform's purpose is to provide an amenity to the local community. Incorporating train wheels and lengths of rail track, it pays homage to trainspotters the world over and to the moving, grinding, squealing `ships on wheels' that keep their adrenaline coursing. Perhaps fittingly, Michael Leunig launched the ludic platform; Mr Curly would have approved.","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"1994","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.80881692877836","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"McPherson, Bernice
Perry, Craig
Dann, Peter","property":"Railway Viewing Platform","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Railway Viewing Platform"},{"_id":73,"geo_point_2d":"-37.81387432873141, 144.9785955087628","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.9785955087628, -37.81387432873141], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Fitzroy Gardens approximately 74m East of Toilet Fitzroy Gardens, 2 Lansdowne Street, East Melbourne, 3002","latitude":"144.9785955087628","asset_id":"1088149","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"(Aka Boy with Serpent or Ornamental Fountain)
This Victorian two-tiered drinking fountain features a snake coiled around a boy with webbed feet and is in a typical 19th-century Italianate style. The lower tier was replaced with a smaller base when the fountain was restored in 1996. Originally, passers-by would have drunk from the water held in its lower tier. Due to shifts in hygiene standards and technology a bubbler was installed.
Previously sited on the corner of Russell and Victoria Streets, it was relocated to Fitzroy Gardens and turned into a drinking fountain after a car damaged it in 1980. In 1996, it was placed in a large pond (minus its bubbler) and relaunched as the Conservatory Fountain. Made in Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, England.
","object_type":"Drinking Fountain","art_date":"c1900","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.81387432873141","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Parks Services Branch","makers":"Unknown","property":"Fitzroy Gardens","classification":"Memorials","title":"Conservatory Fountain"},{"_id":74,"geo_point_2d":"-37.803341823088594, 144.94973917434706","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.94973917434706, -37.803341823088594], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":"Errol Street between Victoria Street and Queensberry Street","location":"Errol Street between Victoria Street and Queensberry Street approximately 3m North of Australian Postal Corporation, Ground, 72-82 Errol Street, North Melbourne, 3051","latitude":"144.94973917434706","asset_id":"1086760","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Also known as North Melbourne Drinking Fountain and Hotham Ornamental Fountain
Drinking fountain surrounded by an imposing circular canopy richly decorated with cast iron lace work
In 1877, Thomas Henderson presented this drinking fountain to the people of Hotham (now North Melbourne) to mark the end of his term as mayor. Designed by Walter MacFarlane and cast by his prominent Glaswegian Saracen Foundry, it has an imposing circular canopy richly decorated with cast-iron lacework.
The fountain was originally sited in the roadway at the intersection of Errol and Queensberry Streets, but was moved in 1889 to allow for the construction of the new cable-tram tracks. In 1917, it was moved to the footpath, but without its bluestone steps and iron railings. In 1972, a vehicle collided with the fountain, damaging its wonderful canopy. Consequently, the following year it was moved to its current and safer location outside the Town Hall. Prior to the mid-1960s, the fountain's drinking spout was replaced with a modern Danks `bubbler', but in 2001 a duplicate of the original was created ' including the small figure of a kangaroo ' based on MacFarlane's original drawings and on moulds from similar fountains.
Thomas Henderson, the great-grandson of the donor, attended the ceremony for the fountain's restoration.
","object_type":"Drinking Fountain","art_date":"1877","inscription":"PRESENTED/TO THE BURGESSES/BY THOMAS HENDERSON|MAYOR/1877/TOWN OF HOTHAM","longitude":"-37.803341823088594","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Parks Services Branch","makers":"Walter MacFarlane and Company Saracen Foundry, Glasgow.","property":null,"classification":"Memorials","title":"Henderson Drinking Fountain"},{"_id":75,"geo_point_2d":"-37.79020534335677, 144.92393918797248","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.92393918797248, -37.79020534335677], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":"Epsom Road between Westbourne Road and Smithfield Road","location":"Epsom Road between Westbourne Road and Smithfield Road approximately 48m North of 2 Coopers Lane, Kensington, 3031","latitude":"144.92393918797248","asset_id":"1091168","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"The mural depicts the stockmen with their horses and dogs, driving sheep and cattle to market as they did for many years.
In 1992, Elizabeth MacKinnon was commissioned to create a public artwork for the old Newmarket saleyards, transformed into a residential neighbourhood as part of the state government Lynch's Bridge Project. Commissioned at a key juncture in the site's life, the mosaic recollects the saleyards' past and acknowledges its future through its two pictorially distinct parts. The mosaic mural was gifted to the City of Melbourne by the Victorian state government. Before its official unveiling at Epsom Road underpass in 1998, it toured to towns in country Victoria and was displayed at Footscray's Living Museum of the West.
The Epsom Road underpass was known as `the back gate' during the saleyards' 126-year history. The back gate was where all livestock passed following its auction, each beast counted so a fee could be levied for the City Council. It is here that the mural is sited.
During MacKinnon's research for the part known as `In Memory of the Newmarket Saleyards' she consulted with former stockmen and older community members to pay homage to the saleyards and to those whose working lives were structured by it.
MacKinnon worked closely with members of the new Lynch's Bridge community to devise the 12 panels comprising `To the Future'. This section of the mural expresses a sense of place for residents, ranging over their cultural and migratory heritage and referencing the history of the area's natural environment.
","object_type":"Mural","art_date":"1990-92","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.79020534335677","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"McKinnon, Elizabeth","property":null,"classification":"Sculpture","title":"Lynch''''s Bridge Mosaic Mural"},{"_id":76,"geo_point_2d":"-37.80977063998943, 144.97348397026266","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.97348397026266, -37.80977063998943], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Parliament Reserve","latitude":"144.97348397026266","asset_id":"1091146","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Sited in Parliament Gardens, his Coles Fountain is a striking counterpoint to its historical garden setting. Its stainless-steel tubing forms a geometrical frame some three metres high, from which water cascades into a shallow pool below. To `enter' the C-shaped fountain is to be virtually encircled by a curtain of water. It is set on finished bluestone paving, which reflects the geometry of the fountain.","object_type":"Fountain","art_date":"1981","inscription":"A gift to the people of Victoria from G.J. Coles and Coy. Limited","longitude":"-37.80977063998943","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Parks Services Branch","makers":"Woodward, Robert","property":"Parliament Reserve","classification":"Memorials","title":"Coles Fountain"},{"_id":77,"geo_point_2d":"-37.82630110126131, 144.97281890582408","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.97281890582408, -37.82630110126131], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Kings Domain approximately 93m NE of Marquis of Linlithgow Memorial Reserve, St Kilda Road, Melbourne, 3004","latitude":"144.97281890582408","asset_id":"1086525","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"One rectangular cubic pedestal realised on granite slabs fixed on concrete. Bronze inscription on front facade. Oversize 3D bronze statue of Thomas Blamey in uniform standing behind an army vehicle windscreen installed on top of pedestal. The monument was cast in six pieces, four at a foundry in London and two in Melbourne, 1959.
A memorial to Blamey was announced in 1958, although its site opposite the memorial to Sir John Monash had been reserved since 1952. There was some dispute over just what vehicle Blamey would be mounted on, with both tradition and Blamey's wife demanding a horse. Ewers won this battle and mounted his subject on a military Jeep. Sited opposite Monash, depicted on horseback and with whom Blamey had served in World War One, Ewers' statue captures the transformation of the technologies of war through this symbol of its mechanisation. In familiar military style, the plaque is a roll call of Blamey's military positions. Ewers' sculpture is one of the few pieces of traditional memorial statuary created after the 1950s. It represents a change in memorial tradition and, importantly, a decline in monumental figurative sculpture.
Sir Thomas Blamey was born near Wagga in 1884 and was the first Australian to become field marshal. He was a controversial man, who commanded much respect for his actions on the battlefield and for his willingness to challenge British and US generals, but his skills did not translate well to the civilian arena. As police commissioner of Victoria between 1925 and 1936, he was harsh in his treatment of Labor activists and the unemployed, and he resigned amid scandal when he was linked to wounding the superintendent of the Criminal Investigation Bureau. Still, Blamey was knighted in 1935 and promoted to field marshal in 1950, the year before he died.
","object_type":"Memorial","art_date":"1958","inscription":"Field Marshal Sir Thomas Albert Blamey / G.B.E. K.C.B. C.M.G. D.S.O E.D. P.S.C. / 1884-1951 / Australian Military Forces 1906-1951 / General Officer Commanding / Australian Imperial Forces 1939-1942 / Commander in Chief / Australian Military Forces 1942-1945","longitude":"-37.82630110126131","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"EWERS, Raymond B.","property":"Kings Domain","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Sir Thomas Blamey Memorial"},{"_id":78,"geo_point_2d":"-37.81304936449115, 144.96821095479558","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.96821095479558, -37.81304936449115], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":"Russell Street between Little Collins Street and Bourke Street","location":"Russell Street between Little Collins Street and Bourke Street approximately 17m West of Edoya Japanese Restaurant, Ground, 138-144 Russell Street, Melbourne, 3000","latitude":"144.96821095479558","asset_id":"1088167","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Chris Reynolds'''''''' A History Apparatus - Vessel, Craft and Beacon was conceived as part of the National Metal Industry Sculpture Project, an innovative sculpture-in-residency program that aimed to cultivate links between the artistic and technical endeavours and the greater community.
The work comprises three main elements - the vessel, craft and beacon - and three lesser elements - the chord, snip-ring and trestle. The main components of this sprawling sculpture, 24 metres in length, refer to the temporal concepts that anchor us in the world: the vessel represents the past, the craft represents the present and the beacon the future.
A History Apparatus resulted from a collaborative effort between the artist and the Australian Metal Workers Union, Aerospace Technology of Australia and the City of Melbourne. Each of these organisations has an illustrious past but is forging a new future. While the work gives a nod to these organisations'''''''' histories, it also comments on the continuity of time and how we all construct our histories, presents and futures.
Unveiled 31 July 1995
The sculpture sits on the site of Melbourne''''''''s first underground public toilet, opened in 1902, which is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register.","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"1993","inscription":"A HISTORY APPARATUS / VESSEL, CRAFT AND BEACON / CHRIS REYNOLDS / PRESENTED AS A GIFT TO THE / CITY OF MELBOURNE ON THE 31 JULY 1995 / BY THE AUSTRALIAN MANUFACTURING WORKERS'''''''' UNION / AND AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGIES OF AUSTRALIA LTD / THIS PROJECT HAS BEEN ASSISTED BY THE","longitude":"-37.81304936449115","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"Reynolds, Chris","property":null,"classification":"Sculpture","title":"A History Apparatus - Vessel Craft & Beacon"},{"_id":79,"geo_point_2d":"-37.805233515414656, 144.94868041774336","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.94868041774336, -37.805233515414656], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"King & Victoria Street Reserve","latitude":"144.94868041774336","asset_id":"1562801","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Sculpted memorial to residents of North and West Melbourne who died in the First World War, Second World War, Korea, Malaya, Sabah Sarawak, Malaya and Vietnam. The cenotaph is a stone column and ball on a stone plinth and two-stepped base.","object_type":"Cenotaph","art_date":"1926","inscription":"Front Inscription: IN IMPERISHABLE MEMORY / OF AUSTRALIA''S SONS / WHO DIED / IN THE CAUSE OF FREEDOM / IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914-1918 / ERECTED BY THE MEMBERS / OF THE NORTH AND WEST / MELBOURNE RED CROSS SOCIETY / ON BEHALF OF THE CITIZENS. / Left side inscription: PALESTINE / SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE KOREAN CAMPAIGN 1950 - 1953.
LEST WE FORGET
Back inscription: SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF / THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES / IN THE FOLLOWING CONFLICTS / MALAYA 1948 ' 1960 / SABAH SARAWAK 1962 ' 1966 / MALAY PENINSULA 1964 ' 1966 / VIETNAM 1962 - 1972 / LEST WE FORGET / FRANCE
Right side inscription: GALLIPOLI / SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN WORLD WAR II 1939 - 1945 / LEST WE FORGET","longitude":"-37.805233515414656","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":null,"makers":"H.B.Corben & Sons Pty. Ltd.","property":"King & Victoria Street Reserve","classification":"Memorials","title":"North Melbourne War Memorial"},{"_id":80,"geo_point_2d":"-37.82427267818169, 144.97321342759503","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.97321342759503, -37.82427267818169], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Kings Domain","latitude":"144.97321342759503","asset_id":"1086724","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Sandstone and granite fluted columns are flanked by two large bronze statues with two small heraldic sandstone statures standing north and south on a low set elliptical wall surrounding the central megalithic column. On the eastern face stands a statue of King George V in full Garter Robes, wearing the Imperial Crown and holding the ceremonial sceptre and orb. On the western face stands a statue representing Maternal Britannia holding a cross and olive branch in her hands, symbolic of love and peace, with two children representing the Dominions and Colonies living in peace under British rule are at her feet. Heraldic statures of a lion and a unicorn flank the northern and southern extremities of the base. Each animal holds a shield showing the armorial bearings of King George V. The column structure is surrounded with bluestone paving slabs with a set of seven step stairs on the west and east side leading down into the parklands.
Bowles' memorial to George V is highly symbolic in design, signalling the power of the monarchy and the British Empire's paternalism towards its colonies. George came to the throne in 1910 and was more a representative of the people than a political sleuth, as had been Elizabeth I and Edward VII. The Empire underwent several changes during his rule: an independent Irish parliament was established in 1918, the country then divided along religious lines two years later, and demands for self-governance in the colonies resulted in the creation of the British Commonwealth of Nations in 1931.
King George V died in 1936. The outbreak of World War Two delayed the construction of Bowles' memorial to him, which was funded by public subscription and by council. The monument was unveiled in 1952 and underwent conservation in 1996.","object_type":"Memorial","art_date":"1952","inscription":"W. Leslie Sc","longitude":"-37.82427267818169","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"BOWLES, William Leslie","property":"Kings Domain","classification":"Sculpture","title":"King George V Memorial"},{"_id":81,"geo_point_2d":"-37.82208606658947, 144.97181101425943","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.97181101425943, -37.82208606658947], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Queen Victoria Gardens","latitude":"144.97181101425943","asset_id":"1091167","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Water cascades some three metres over this stone waterfall. It is located on the south side of the ornamental lake, near the Queen Victoria Monument.","object_type":"Waterfall","art_date":"1973","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.82208606658947","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Parks Services Branch","makers":"Unknown","property":"Queen Victoria Gardens","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Lake Waterfall"},{"_id":82,"geo_point_2d":"-37.822335480105195, 144.9718353146044","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.9718353146044, -37.822335480105195], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Queen Victoria Gardens","latitude":"144.9718353146044","asset_id":"1088146","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"In 1873, Janet Snodgrass married wealthy pastoralist William Clarke, who was made Australia's first baronet in 1882. The Clarkes were generous philanthropists, with sympathy for a great many causes. Their wealth and social standing made them influential, and they used this to their advantage to raise awareness of and funds for various local causes.
Lady Clarke sat on many committees, including the Women's National League, Women's Hospital Committee and the Talbot Colony for Epileptics. She was particularly active in supporting education. While Lady Clarke became the inaugural president of the National Council of Women of Victoria in 1902 and of the Australian Women's National League in 1904, she was not a supporter women's suffrage.
Lady Clarke died in 1909, and upon her death a memorial fund was established. Herbert Black's design for a Grecian-style, white marble rotunda won the public competition. It can accommodate 100 musicians and offers a quiet place to contemplate the view across Queen Victoria Gardens. In part, the inscription on the rotunda reads: `A tribute to the memory of a high example / of beneficence and public spirit'.","object_type":"Rotunda","art_date":"1913","inscription":"THIS BUILDING ERECTED BY THE PUBLIC OF VICTORIA / AS A TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF A HIGH EXAMPLE / OF BENEFICENCE AND PUBLIC SPIRIT / JANET LADY CLARKE / WAS COMMITTED TO THE PERPETUAL CARE OF THE / CITY CORPORATION OF MELBOURNE / BY THE SUBSCRIBERS / SEPTEMBER 24TH 1913","longitude":"-37.822335480105195","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"BLACK, Herbert
","property":"Queen Victoria Gardens","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Janet Lady Clarke Memorial Sculpture"},{"_id":83,"geo_point_2d":"-37.81765977602296, 144.95977299962593","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.95977299962593, -37.81765977602296], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Approximately 37m SE of Macchiato On Collins, Unit 2, Ground, 446-452 Collins Street, Melbourne, 3000","latitude":"144.95977299962593","asset_id":"1086526","history":"Stanley Hammond was born at Trentham, Victoria, in 1913. He trained in Daylesford and Melbourne before assisting Orlando Dutton with works for the Shrine of Remembrance and Paul Montford with the Macpherson Robertson Fountain and other sculptures. He also worked on Melbourne's South African War Memorial.
Hammond's statue of John Batman depicts him not so much as the revered founding father but as a man of the land. Clothed in the garb of an explorer, he stands with one foot resting on a saddle roll and his head bent as he marks his map. The plaque bears the oft-repeated line from Batman's journal: `This is the place for a village'.
In 1977, the City of Melbourne commissioned the statue on the recommendation of its Parks & Gardens Committee. It was unveiled in June 1978. National Mutual purchased the land on which the statue stands in 1993, and ownership of the statue was transferred with it.","owner_type":"Owned","description":"A full size bronze statue of John Batman presented in an upright stance, one leg resting on a saddle roll, clothed in the garb of an explorer, head bent while marking a spot on the map. On the statue is the inscription, \"This is the place for a village.\"
Born in Parramatta, New South Wales, in 1801, John Batman is best known as one of Melbourne's founding fathers. The son of a cutler transported for receiving stolen goods, Batman was apprenticed as a blacksmith and later became a farmer. He took up land in North- eastern Tasmania where he prospered and his holdings were further augmented by a government reward for his role in the conciliation of disputes with Indigenous Tasmanians. Looking to expand his grazing land he organised an unofficial expedition to explore Victoria and in May 1835 Batman crossed to the mainland in the Rebecca. In June he was one of an exploring party which walked north from the western end of Port Phillip to near Mount Macedon, then east to Glenburn, and south-west back to the Yarra. Upon finding these lands agreeable he made a controversial treaty with local Wurundjeri Elders, exchanging 20 pairs of blankets, 30 tomahawks, 100 knives, 50 scissors, 30 mirrors, 200 handkerchiefs, 45.4 kg of flour, 6 shirts, 4 jackets and 4 suits, together with an annual rent in the same commodities for 600 000 acres of land along the Bellarine Peninsula. The government of the time soon declared the treaty invalid, claiming the 'Crown' as the true owner of the land. The treaty was also seen to be fraudulent. The signatories were not `chiefs' and the boundaries were not marked. Most importantly, the land belonged to tribes, not individuals, and so was inalienable. An exchange of gifts had been misconstrued as a sale. Soon after signing the treaty Batman sailed up the Yarra past the present site of Melbourne and made the famous entry in his diary, \"This will be the place for a village.' However, on his return to Victoria some months later he found Fawkner already settled on the present site of Melbourne. With his health declining, Batman settled on Batman's Hill near the present site of the Spencer Street Railway Station and died of syphilis just four years later on the 6 May 1839 at the age of 38.
","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"1978","inscription":"John Batman 1801-1839 This is the place for a village","longitude":"-37.81765977602296","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"Hammond, Stanley 1913 - 2000","property":null,"classification":"Sculpture","title":"John Batman Memorial [2]"},{"_id":84,"geo_point_2d":"-37.81823232301213, 144.94744462620787","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.94744462620787, -37.81823232301213], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Victoria Point approximately 42m NW of Jolie Brows, 758 Bourke Street, Docklands, 3008","latitude":"144.94744462620787","asset_id":"1559911","history":null,"owner_type":"Not Owned","description":"Anchor offers a tribute to the maritime crafts of the past - specifically, decorative rope work - by using the maritime technologies of the present. Dramatically changing its appearance throughout the day, the work is approximately 33 metres from the ground and secured by cables that are almost invisible, so it appears to float in the sky. New Zealander Neil Dawson is one of Australasia's most prolific artists and was made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2004.","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"2005","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.81823232301213","company":"VicUrban","service_manager":null,"makers":"Neil Dawson","property":"Victoria Point","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Anchor"},{"_id":85,"geo_point_2d":"-37.808248962797364, 144.9753153437232","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.9753153437232, -37.808248962797364], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Victoria Parade Reserve approximately 24m North of Fire Services Museum Of Victoria, 108-122 Victoria Parade, East Melbourne, 3002","latitude":"144.9753153437232","asset_id":"1086759","history":"
","owner_type":"Owned","description":"Granite drinking fountain. A rectangular horizontal granite plinth, supporting a single basin fountain. The plinth is positioned on two tiered steps.
Drinking fountains such as this dot the city landscape and are culturally significant heritage artefacts. They find their roots in the reformist ways of the temperance movement, providing a morally astute alternative to the evils of a city pub. The link between the artefact and its emergence is nicely captured in this fountain, erected in memory of the former postmaster-general, Samuel Mauger. Mauger was a passionate advocate for social justice. He formed the Anti-Sweating Labour League of Victoria, was a ceaseless advocate for humanitarian legislation, was involved in the temperance movement and served as president of the Total Abstinence Society. He was also a foundation member of the Melbourne Metropolitan Fire Brigade Board, and for many years served as a volunteer fire fighter.
The inscription on this simple granite fountain attests to the respect Mauger commanded:
The drinking fountain was unveiled in the reserve in front of the Easter Hill Fire Station by J. Hume-Cook, the honorary secretary of the Australian Industries Protection League, on 26th June 1937.
The inscription on this simple granite fountain attests to the respect Mauger commanded: `Erected by commonwealth admirers in memory of / Samuel Mauger / ' / Industrial, prison, temperance & social reformer / He gave his life in the service of mankind / This memorial is erected to commemorate the life and achievement / of one who spent his years in seeking to serve his fellow men / 'Go thou and do likewise''.
The drinking fountain was unveiled in the reserve in front of the Easter Hill Fire Station by J. Hume-Cook, the honorary secretary of the Australian Industries Protection League, on 26th June 1937.","object_type":"Drinking Fountain","art_date":"1937","inscription":"ERECTED BY COMMONWEALTH ADMIRERS OF/SAMUEL MAUGHER/BORN 1857 - DIED 1936/INDUSTRIAL, PRISON, TEMPERANCE & SOCIAL REFORMER/HE GAVE HIS LIFE IN THE SERVICE OF MANKIND/THIS MEMORIAL IS ERECTED TO COMMEMORATE THE LIFE AND ACHIVEMENTS/OF ONE WHO SPENT HIS YEARS IN SEEKING TO SERVE HIS FELLOW MEN/\"GO THOU AND DO LIKEWISE\"/26TH JUNE 1937","longitude":"-37.808248962797364","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Parks Services Branch","makers":"Unknown","property":"Victoria Parade Reserve","classification":"Memorials","title":"Samuel Mauger Drinking Fountain"},{"_id":86,"geo_point_2d":"-37.81372573647249, 144.97261542256064","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.97261542256064, -37.81372573647249], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":"Collins Street between Spring Street and Exhibition Street","location":"Collins Street between Spring Street and Exhibition Street approximately 22m SE of The Melbourne Club, 36 Collins Street, Melbourne, 3000","latitude":"144.97261542256064","asset_id":"1088073","history":"The bust was handed over to Sir Samuel Gillott in the Melbourne Town Hall Council Chamber by Mr H. Butler in November 1905.
Sir Samuel Gillott was Melbourne's first lord mayor, serving from 1902 to 1903. The period he spent in office was not without controversy, and his political career came to a blunt conclusion in 1906 when he was found in compromising circumstances. In 1904 the Truth newspaper alleged that he had been secretly funding the Madam Brussells brothel, an establishment frequented by some of Melbourne's most influential people.
","owner_type":"Owned","description":"Italian marble bust of Sir Samuel Gillott wearing Mayoral chains
Sir Samuel Gillott
b. Sheffield, England 1838
arr. Melbourne 1856
d Sheffield, England 1913
Mayor 1900-1902, Lord Mayor 1902-1903
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A bronze equestrian statue of Marquis of Linlithgow on a granite pedestal.
John Adrian Lewis Hope, the Earl of Hopetoun, arrived in Australia to serve as the governor of Victoria from 1889 to 1895. During these years he travelled widely, investigating social conditions and alleviating hardship where he could. He returned to England in 1895, with a reputation for being one of the most conscientious governors in Australia. He returned to Australia in 1901 to become the new federation's first governor-general, but his popularity quickly waned, in part because his expenses were perceived as exorbitant. He resigned from his position a year later and returned to his native Scotland, where he died in 1905. In 1902, the Earl of Hopetoun was made Marquis of Linlithgow.
A handful of anonymous tenders for a commemorative statue to Hope were considered before William Birnie Rhind's design was selected. Lady Linlithgow had requested that her late husband be represented on horseback to show his admiration for these noble beasts. Rhind's moulds were made in Scotland and the bronze was cast in Naples. Governor-General Sir John Fuller and acting Prime Minister William Hughes unveiled the statue in June 1911.
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The bronze crouching figures have been cast from one mould which was made from a life size model. All the sculptures are painted red, a colour that the artist sees as a multicultural colour, making it ideal for Melbourne's diverse community.
According to the artist, '' the colour red has multiple cultural meanings in China, historically representing happiness but during the Cultural Revolution it symbolized terror. Today red is the colour of the faded lettering praising Mao on the ceilings of the factories, coats of the Buddhist monks and the colour of wedding decorations'. In Chinese culture, the number eight is significant and is believed to bring good luck. The eight figures are 92 centimetres tall and each weighs 100 kilograms.","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"2007","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.815901938178676","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":null,"makers":"Shugang, Wang - Born Beijing 1960
","property":"NewQuay Promenade","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Meeting 1"},{"_id":90,"geo_point_2d":"-37.82186285910264, 144.94700936190569","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.94700936190569, -37.82186285910264], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Docklands Park","latitude":"144.94700936190569","asset_id":"1092462","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Blowhole, by Sydney-based artist Duncan Stemler, is a 15-metre-high wind-powered kinetic sculpture. Its many moving parts include arms and anodised aluminium cups, which interact with each other to form changing patterns, colours and shadows.
Reflecting the site's maritime theme, together the cups resemble the form of an anemometer, used on top of a yacht's mast. Blowhole is an environmentally responsive artwork, expressing states ranging from calmness to frenzy, with the rotation speed of its elements dependent on the strength and direction of the wind. By day, the anodised cups pulse with reflected sunlight, by night they are lit from within. The sculpture is also able to change its full aspect as it rotates around its vertical axis.
","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"2005","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.82186285910264","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":null,"makers":"Stemler, Duncan","property":"Docklands Park","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Blowhole"},{"_id":91,"geo_point_2d":"-37.81696330579109, 144.96748759277108","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.96748759277108, -37.81696330579109], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Approximately 38m NE of 13 Swanston Street, Melbourne, 3000","latitude":"144.96748759277108","asset_id":"1086583","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"A bronze figure of Matthew Flinders in his Commander''''''''''''''''s uniform, standing on the prow of a boat, braced against the wind, brought ashore by two seamen. The bronze sculpture sits on a granite plinth. Unveiled 8 November 1925.
The idea for a monument to Matthew Flinders was first discussed in1911 after a meeting of the Royal Geographical Society of Melbourne. In 1915 a public subscriptions began, however with the coming of war the plans were put on hold. In 1922 the notion was resurrected, this time by the Melbourne City Council, and C. Web Gilbert was elected to create the piece. In subsequent months there was much factional fighting and public debate about the location and the form of the sculpture. There was heavy competition for the statue to be placed at the St Kilda foreshore, but a Council meeting decided in 1923 that it \"must be located within the city of Melbourne.\" Finally in 1924 a design was approved and permission was granted by St Paul''''''''''''''''s Cathedral to house the statue on their grounds. The bronze statue itself was cast in Paris by Barbedienne, and sadly Gilbert died just days before it returned to Melbourne. It was unveiled by the Governor, Lord Stradbroke on November 7 1925, in the presence of more than 3000 people.
Flinders gained acclaim for establishing the strait between mainland Australia and Tasmania in 1798. Over 1801'03, he mapped the coast of Australia, completed against great odds, and was the first cartographer to use `Australia' on maps, rather than `New Holland'. On the Flinders' Statue Fund collecting card, Professor Ernest Scott wrote: `amongst the seamen who habitually traverse these coasts, no name, not even that of Cook, is so deeply esteemed as his'.
Charles Web Gilbert was born in 1867 near Cockatoo, in Victoria. At a young age he became a pastry cook, modelling cake decorations. He later studied at the National Gallery Art School, but had no formal training in sculpture. Gilbert travelled to England at the outbreak of World War One, and shortly after to France, where he made battlefield models for the Australian Imperial Force. Returning to Australia, he worked for the Australian War Memorial, and later undertook many commemorative commissions. The Flinders monument is Gilbert's best known work and has been particularly admired for the use of the boat as the statue's base.","object_type":"Statue","art_date":"1925","inscription":"\"Web Gilbert Sculptor 1923 Melbourne F.Barbedienne Founder Paris\" / CAPTAIN MATTHEW FLINDERS, R.N. / (1774 - 1814) / ERECTED BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION 1925 / C. WEB GILBERT SCULPTOR / CAPTAIN MATTHEW FLINDERS 1923 ' 1925 / CHARLES WEB GILBERT 1887 - 1925","longitude":"-37.81696330579109","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"GILBERT, Charles Web; BARBEDIENNE, F","property":null,"classification":"Sculpture","title":"Captain Matthew Flinders Statue"},{"_id":92,"geo_point_2d":"-37.81859572477289, 144.97182169813522","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.97182169813522, -37.81859572477289], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Birrarung Marr approximately 32m South of Toilet Birrarung Marr, Batman Avenue, Melbourne, 3000","latitude":"144.97182169813522","asset_id":"1092200","history":"A Commemorative Place Art Commission, Birrarung Wilam was funded jointly by the City of Melbourne and Victorian government.","owner_type":"Owned","description":"Birrarung Wilam ' meaning river camp ' is an environmental art project made up of several interrelated elements that celebrate the physical and spiritual connections between Indigenous people and place. The philosophy underlying the work is gulpa ngawul, a Yorta Yorta word that most closely translates as `deep listening'. Accordingly, this work by Indigenous artists Vicki Couzens (Kirrae Wurrong/Gunditjmara), Lee Darroch (Yorta Yorta, Mutti Mutti and Trawlwoolway) and Treahna Hamm (Yorta Yorta) honours the traditions of tribes throughout Victoria, particularly those of the Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung, on whose country the city and greater Melbourne is located. Birrarung Wilam listens to and commemorates cultural knowledge, stories and practices, revitalising them through the reinterpretation of tradition and the site.
The central component of the work is the mound campsite, or puulwuurn, supported by an eel pathway, two message sticks, five shields, a group of ancestor stones, interpretative panels, water vessels and an audio installation. The mound campsite is a contemporary recreation of a sitting place, an element central to Aboriginal cultural life; significant artefacts from Aboriginal groups from around Victoria have been interred within the mound. The carved hardwood message sticks stand at the site's eastern and western ends, representing the Wurundjeri/Woiwurrung and Boonwurrung people, respectively, and welcoming visitors onto the site in a gesture of reconciliation. The eel path refers to a primary food source, trapped as they were near the shallow waterfalls that once separated the freshwater river from the salty bay water, not far from this site. The five large metal shields along the riverfront stand in complementary opposition to the feminine form of the mound campsite. On the southern side of the ArtPlay building, etched-metal panels, resembling possum-skin cloaks, interpret each element of Birrarung Wilam and are augmented by a sound installation of Indigenous voices. The large, carved ancestor stones are placed to form a semi-circular performance area, a place where ceremonial and cultural practices can continue to keep the connection to land vibrant.
","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"2006","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.81859572477289","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"COUZENS, Vicki; DARROCH, Lee; HAMM, Treahna","property":"Birrarung Marr","classification":"Indigenous","title":"Birrarung Wilam [Common Ground]"},{"_id":93,"geo_point_2d":"-37.810372108766074, 144.96407645127653","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.96407645127653, -37.810372108766074], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":"Swanston Street between Little Lonsdale Street and La Trobe Street","location":"Swanston Street between Little Lonsdale Street and La Trobe Street approximately 9m SE of Unit 1102, 339 Swanston Street, Melbourne, 3000","latitude":"144.96407645127653","asset_id":"1088165","history":"Commissioned through the City of Melbourne's Percent for Art Program, this double-sided seat of steel and jarrah offers the urban flâneur a place to rest, take stock and take in the urban environment.","owner_type":"Owned","description":"Bronwyn Snow's Resting Place is a sculpture that combines aesthetics and function. The decorative elements of the seat include two serpents ' traditionally a symbol of healing, rebirth and female power ' towering sunflowers, which watch over the seated, and ivy. Snow claims of the work that it is `a stopping point, a resting place for the weary spiritual traveller'.","object_type":"Sculpture / Seat","art_date":"1994","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.810372108766074","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"Snow, Bronwyn","property":null,"classification":"Sculpture","title":"Resting Place"},{"_id":94,"geo_point_2d":"-37.795663554735185, 144.9389347962098","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.9389347962098, -37.795663554735185], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Clayton Reserve approximately 36m NE of Footprint Furniture, 11 Boundary Road, North Melbourne, 3051","latitude":"144.9389347962098","asset_id":"1091182","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"A minimal and symmetrical granite structure, it consists of a domed roof, four windows to access the drinking fountain and a hexagonal base. This simple structure has its origins in Islamic architectural forms.
Little is known of the history of this fountain near the corner or Boundary and Macaulay Roads. John Clayton, after whom the reserve and fountain are named, served as town clerk from 1891 to 1915.
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Edgar Wilson was a 77-year-old pensioner living in England when he built this model Tudor village in the late 1940s. It is one of three villages he built, and it represents a typical Kentish village during the Tudor period. As well as comprising private residences and public buildings, the village is replete with the residences of William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway.
The Tudor village was donated to the City of Melbourne through the City of Lambeth, England, as a gift to the people of Melbourne in appreciation for the generosity they demonstrated in sending food to Britain during World War Two. Lord Mayor Cr Raymond Connelly formally opened the village on 21 May 1948.
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Charles Douglas Richardson was born in England and arrived in Australia in 1858. He studied first in Melbourne and then London before returning to Australia. He produced many war memorials, as well as the famous Mercury statue for the former Age building in Collins Street and the bust of Sir Samuel Gillott, Melbourne's first Lord Mayor.
Richardson's shrine-like drinking fountain is one of three memorial fountains dedicated to the Ievers family and donated to the community in gratitude for its support. The Ievers had a long association with Carlton, with three family members representing the Smith Ward: William Jnr (1881'95), William Snr (1895'1901) and George (1901'21).
George Ievers proposed the fountains in 1913 as part of a beautification scheme coordinated by the Parks & Gardens Committee, of which he was a member. This memorial was the last of the three to be unveiled.
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