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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":3,"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":4,"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.
","object_type":"Model","art_date":"1948","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.81325721271155","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"Wilson, Edgar","property":"Fitzroy Gardens","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Model Tudor Village"},{"_id":7,"geo_point_2d":"-37.78366119106134, 144.96000400655757","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.96000400655757, -37.78366119106134], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Princes Park approximately 55m West of Ikon Park, Antenna Ikon Park, Royal Parade, Carlton North, 3054","latitude":"144.96000400655757","asset_id":"1091174","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Red-granite forms the trough and cap of this drinking fountain, which otherwise is built in red brick veneer. It is located at the entrance to Optus Oval, in Princes Park.","object_type":"Drinking Fountain","art_date":"c1935","inscription":"REYNOLD''''S / RESERVE","longitude":"-37.78366119106134","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Parks Services Branch","makers":"Unknown","property":"Princes Park","classification":"Memorials","title":"Reynold''''s Reserve Drinking Fountain"},{"_id":8,"geo_point_2d":"-37.820108015038734, 144.94791455836793","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.94791455836793, -37.820108015038734], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Hub@Docklands approximately 36m West of De Asian Flavours, 2A Waterview Walk, Docklands, 3008","latitude":"144.94791455836793","asset_id":"1560968","history":null,"owner_type":"Not Owned","description":"IOU is both a debt and a poem. Fashioned from stainless steel and toughened glass, the piece won a Popular Choice Award at the prestigious Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Awards in 2002. Dwyer says, 'the IOU is something that promises another presence: that stands for something else. Here in its sculptural form, the promise stays suspended [and] the mirrored object disappears into its surrounds.'","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"2005","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.820108015038734","company":"VicUrban","service_manager":null,"makers":"Mikala Dwyer","property":"Hub@Docklands","classification":"Sculpture","title":"IOU"},{"_id":9,"geo_point_2d":"-37.818422539139505, 144.97164501742284","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.97164501742284, -37.818422539139505], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Birrarung Marr approximately 15m SW of Toilet Birrarung Marr, Batman Avenue, Melbourne, 3000","latitude":"144.97164501742284","asset_id":"1638167","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"In 2007 mosaic artist Helen Bodycomb was commissioned to create a monochrome entrance feature for Artplay which could also be used as a seat or play feature. The design of the sculptural work was inspired by the forms illustrated in various Dr Seuss stories. Special care was undertaken to ensure the ergonomics of the curvatures, also to enable adequate fall to prevent water from pooling on or in the work. Consistent with Artplay's colour `identity', the work was to be (in tones of) orange.
Helen conducted a number of workshops at Artplay in which children explored patterns and drawings with some of the tiles later used in the work. Rather than attempting to create works for actual inclusion, children were encouraged to explore ideas through drawing and loose-laid tile arrangements. These were carefully photo-documented for later reference by the artist.
Construction of most of the features in the work were prefabricated in Helen Bodycomb's Castlemaine studio on fibreglass mesh. A loose plan for placement was made in the studio. Each hump has a loose theme; the hump closest to the building has a circus theme, one is outer space and flight, the hump furthest from the building features the Birdman Rally, etc.","object_type":"Sculpture / Seat","art_date":"2008","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.818422539139505","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":null,"makers":"BODYCOMB, Helen","property":"Birrarung Marr","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Once Upon a Slime"},{"_id":10,"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":"1086756","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Ornamental drinking Fountain located in Curtain Square, North Carlton.
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. Unveiled on 28th February 1930.
","object_type":"Drinking Fountain","art_date":"1930","inscription":"PRESENTED TO THE / CITIZENS OF MELBOURNE / BY / ALDERMAN / SIR W.M. BRUNTON. K.B. / LORD MAYOR OF MELBOURNE 1923 - 1926 / 1930","longitude":"-37.78930375418185","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":null,"makers":"Unknown","property":null,"classification":"Memorials","title":"Sir William Brunton Drinking Fountain"},{"_id":11,"geo_point_2d":"-37.821399856414146, 144.94170955070416","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.94170955070416, -37.821399856414146], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Approximately 6m NE of 88 Australian Wharf, Docklands, 3008","latitude":"144.94170955070416","asset_id":"1638169","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"The River Runs Through It by Melbourne artist Mark Stoner, is a spatial installation that merges art and landscape. The installation is comprised of a ground plane `flow' of shaped paving, 16 white pre-cast concrete `wave' forms, five brick dunes and carefully placed planter forms. This evocative and organic landscape is overlayed upon the urban stripe paving pattern, revealing the natural forces underlying the site. It reminds us all of the Yarra and alluvial mud plain that previously existed around the site.","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"2011","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.821399856414146","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":null,"makers":"Stoner, Mark","property":null,"classification":"Sculpture","title":"The River Runs Through It"},{"_id":12,"geo_point_2d":"-37.81704008332346, 144.98958111417957","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.98958111417957, -37.81704008332346], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Weedon Reserve approximately 33m South of 10 Wellington Parade, East Melbourne, 3002","latitude":"144.98958111417957","asset_id":"1092419","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Sited on the reserve on the corner of Wellington Parade and Punt Road, this granite memorial was erected in 1923 by the motorcyclists of Australia and Parsons' friends. It sits on a stepped base and is inlaid with a marble plaque remembering Parsons and with a depiction of the motorcyclist.
Harold Parsons was a legend of Australian motorcycling during the early 20th century. Among his triumphs were setting the world record for the 24-hour triangular course between the Victorian towns of Sale, Stratford and Maffra, and for the Melbourne to Adelaide ride, both achieved in 1920. Parsons was killed during a test ride on 15 May 1921, when he collided with a horse on Epping Road.
","object_type":"Memorial","art_date":"1923","inscription":"IN MEMORY OF / HAROLD PARSONS / AUSTRALIA''S CHAMPION MOTORCYCLIST / ACCIDENTALLY KILLED AT EPPING / 15th MAY 1921 / ERECTED BY THE MOTORCYCLISTS OF AUSTRALIA AND FRIENDS","longitude":"-37.81704008332346","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":null,"makers":"Unknown","property":"Weedon Reserve","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Motorcyclist Harold Parsons Memorial"},{"_id":13,"geo_point_2d":"-37.817677055142426, 144.95999529331093","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.95999529331093, -37.817677055142426], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Approximately 51m West of Oak and Vine, Unit 1R, Ground, 60 Market Street, Melbourne, 3000","latitude":"144.95999529331093","asset_id":"1086578","history":"Michael Meszaros studied architecture at the University of Melbourne before working with his father, Andor, as a sculptor. Like his father, he is known for his commemorative medals. His statue of Fawkner depicts a man close to the earth ' a planter of crops and a builder. Next to Fawkner is John Batman, a co-founder of Melbourne. Unlike Batman, however, Fawkner lived long enough to exert an influence on Melbourne's early development.
Meszaros's statue was unveiled in 1979. In 1993, National Mutual purchased the land on which the statue is sited, and its ownership was transferred.
On 21st February, 1977, the Council approved the recommendation of the Parks, Gardens and Recreations Committee to commission Michael Meszaros to produce a scale model of Fawkner. It was completed in clay and cast in bronze by Peter J. Morly. A \"musical pageant to John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner\" was performed by The Victorian State Youth Band, before the statue was unveiled by Councillor Ian Stuart on 26th January, 1979. In 1993 National Mutual purchased the land the ownership of the statue transferred as well.
John Pascoe Fawkner (1792-1869) is considered to be one of the founders of the city of Melbourne. Fawkner came to Australia as a young boy from England with the ill-fated Collins expedition which attempted to settle in Port Phillip Bay near Sorrento in 1803. His father was a transported man and young Fawkner himself ran into some early trouble with the law. However, he made good in Launceston becoming in succession a baker, bookseller, timber merchant, hotelier, authorised court agent for dependents, and newspaper proprietor of the \"Launceston Advertiser\". He organised an expedition to Victoria in August 1835, during which time an altercation took place with Batman''s party over land ownership in the Melbourne district. Fawkner built the first house in Melbourne, began the first newspaper (the \"Melbourne Advertiser\"), was on the first Legislative Council, and bought a large area of land to be known as Pascoe Vale. He was a man of energy and vision, and unlike Batman, lived long enough to exert an influence on Melbourne''s early development.","owner_type":"Owned","description":"Bronze figure and base on a slate pedestal. Commissioned 1977, Completed 1978, Unveiled 27 Jan 1979
Land that the statue is on is currently owned by CBus Property as at 25/9/2014
INSCRIPTION: ''CALCUTTA'' AT PORTSMOUTH AND SAILED WITH THE EXPEDITION OF LIEUT.-COL. DAVID COLLINS ON 29 APRIL 1803 TO SETTLE AT PORT PHILLIP, AS WATER SUPPLIES AT SORRENTO PROVED TO BE INADEQUATE. THE SETTLEMENT WAS MOVED TO VAN DIEMEN''S LAND (TASMANIA) WHERE HOBART TOWN WAS ESTABLISHED ON SULLIVANS COVE IN 1804. / IN 1819 FAWKNER MOVED TO LAUNCESTON, WHERE HE MARRIED ELIZA COBB IN 1822. / IN 1834-35 FAWKNER, LIKE BATMAN AND OTHERS, DECIDED TO INVESTIGATE THE LAND NORTH OF BASS STRAIT. HE BOUGHT A 55-TON SCHOONER AND, WITH LANCEY, EVANS, MARR AND JACKSON, FORMED A
SYNDICATE TO SEARCH FOR A SETTLEMENT SITE. BEFORE HIS SCHOONER, THE ''ENTERPRIZE'', WAS DELIVERED, FAWKNER HEARD OF BATMAN''S SUCCESS AT PORT PHILLIP. / THE ''ENTERPRIZE'' LEFT LAUNCESTON ON 21 JULY 1835, BUT WAS DELAYED OFF GEORGETOWN BY BAD WEATHER. FAWKNER WAS OBLIGED TO LEAVE THE SHIP AND THE PARTY LEFT WITHOUT HIM. WITH JOHN LANCEY AS LEADER, THEY EXPLORED WESTERN PORT AND THE EASTER SIDE OF PORT PHILLIP, WITHOUT FINDING ADEQUATE FRESH WATER. THIS WAS EVENTUALLY FOUND ON THE YARRA RIVER, ABOVE A WATERFALL (SINCE REMOVED). ON 29 AUGUST THE ''ENTERPRIZE'' ANCHORED BELOW THE FALL. NEXT DAY, CARGO UNLOADING BEGAN. FAWKNER AND HIS FAMILY ARRIVED IN THE ''ENTERPRIZE'' ON ITS SECOND VOYAGE, IN OCTOBER 1835. / A MEMBER OF VICTORIA''S FIRST LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, FAWKNER REMINAED A MEMBER UNTIL HIS DEATH, ON 2 SEPTEMBER 1869.
","object_type":"Statue","art_date":"1977-79","inscription":"\"Michael Neszaros Sculptor 1978\" [extensive text - see description]","longitude":"-37.817677055142426","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"Meszaros, Michael Victor (1945 - )","property":null,"classification":"Sculpture","title":"John Pascoe Fawkner Memorial"},{"_id":14,"geo_point_2d":"-37.81367295311916, 144.9743448588091","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.9743448588091, -37.81367295311916], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Treasury Gardens approximately 40m NE of Tigerspike, Ground, Mezzanine & Level 1, 49 Spring Street, Melbourne, 3000","latitude":"144.9743448588091","asset_id":"1086515","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Bust of Sir William John Clarke on a marble pedestal. Underneath him is a woman offering a wreath (representing the State of Victoria) and a young man with a scroll (representing education).
Following Clarke's death, a public meeting was held to determine how best to memorialise him. The monument, it was thought, must be `of heroic size' and yet in keeping with Clarke's modesty. Mackennal sculpted the marble in London in consultation with Clarke's son-in-law and with the final approval of Lady Janet Clarke. After much deliberation over a suitable site for the memorial, the entrance to the Fitzroy Gardens was decided upon, and at 4pm on 22 July 1902, it was unveiled by the State Governor, Sir George Sydenam Cole. In presenting the memorial, E.G. Fitz Gibbon declared the memorial was \"rendered to keep the name and worth of Sir William John Clarke green in the memory of the community which he loved so well, and served so nobly.\"
William John Clarke was born in Tasmania in 1831 and moved to Victoria in 1860. A philanthropist and wealthy pastoralist, he gave generously to the building funds for St Paul's Cathedral and Trinity College, and supported several other causes. He was actively involved in many areas of public life and was the first Australian to be made baronet. He died in 1897, stepping from a tramcar in Collins Street.
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":"Statue","art_date":"1902","inscription":"There are two inscriptions: Bertram MacKennal / London 1902 / TO THE HON. / SIR WILLIAM JOHN CLARKE / BART., L.L.D., M.L.C. / VICTORIA''''''''S TRIBUTE","longitude":"-37.81367295311916","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"McKennal, Sir Edgar Bertram","property":"Treasury Gardens","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Sir William John Clarke"},{"_id":15,"geo_point_2d":"-37.81438929428271, 144.97991018542538","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.97991018542538, -37.81438929428271], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Fitzroy Gardens approximately 55m West of City of Melbourne, Sinclairs Cottage, Fitzroy Gardens, Wellington Parade, East Melbourne, 3002","latitude":"144.97991018542538","asset_id":"1089991","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"This bronze sculpture of a cherub-like boy astride the back of a turtle has led a long and eventful life.
Boy on a Turtle was erected in Carlton Gardens during the 1850s, where it first stood in a prominent position on the corner of Victoria and Rathdowne Streets before being relocated in 1937 to the Nicholson Street side of the gardens. Some years later the statue was moved to its present home in Fitzroy Gardens; appropriately, Boy on a Turtle sits in the lower lake of the gardens. In March 1977, this popular statue was stolen from the gardens ' a remarkable feat considering the great weight of the bronze. It was also the fate suffered by Larry LaTrobe nearly 20 years later. Two and a half years after the sculpture's disappearance, police found it in an abandoned Richmond car park.
","object_type":"Statue","art_date":"c1850","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.81438929428271","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"Unknown","property":"Fitzroy Gardens","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Boy on a Turtle"},{"_id":16,"geo_point_2d":"-37.8123634964432, 144.97374510260238","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.97374510260238, -37.8123634964432], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Gordon Reserve approximately 38m East of Cafe Excello, Ground, 1-3 Little Collins Street, Melbourne, 3000","latitude":"144.97374510260238","asset_id":"1086512","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Seated bronze figure of poet and horseman Adam Lindsay Gordon depicted with book in one hand, a pencil in the other and his saddle under the chair. The bronze sits on a sandstone pedestal.
Heavily inscribed on each side, its north face reads: `Of the works of His hand by sea or by land, the horse may at least rank second'; its east face reads: `He sang the first great songs these lands can claim to be their own'.
Gordon was born in 1833 in the Azores, Portugal, where his maternal grandfather owned a plantation. A wild and impetuous youth, he was sent to South Australia by his family shortly after completing his education in England. Soon after his arrival in 1853 he became a constable in the mounted police, before trying his hand, unsuccessfully, at both politics and running sheep. In much debt, Gordon committed suicide in 1879.
In 1911, a public meeting was held to consider erecting a memorial to Gordon. The first subscription predated this meeting, with the Earl of Dudley donating £60 in 1910. A second meeting, held in 1912, was not well attended and the fund was still £1000 short. It was another two decades before the memorial was finally erected. Montford was awarded the gold medal of the Royal Society of British Sculptors for this work.
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Inscribed on the north face: OF THE WORKS OF HIS HAND / BY SEA OR BY LAND / THE HORSE MAY AT LEAST RANK SECOND
Inscribed on the east face: HE SANG THE FIRST GREAT SONGS / THESE LANDS CAN CLAIM TO BE THEIR OWN","longitude":"-37.8123634964432","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"Montford, Paul
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","owner_type":"Owned","description":"A bronze sculpture of a young woman, arms raised stroking her hair, kneeling on a round base that is covered in small waves. The sculpture rests atop a sandstone pedestal that sits on a concrete and rock plinth in the middle of the lake. The pedestal carries a bronze title plaque.
In 1925, Melbourne City Council's Parks & Gardens Committee allocated funds towards purchasing statues for its public gardens. This was an attempt to appease a dissatisfied and vocal public, which had criticised council for the poor state of the pieces located in Fitzroy Gardens.
Paul Montford's Water Nymph is one of the works purchased. It is a bronze statue of a young woman, with raised arms stroking her hair. She kneels on a round base, which is set in an ornamental lake. This is a classic image of the period. The nymph is linked to age-old representations of the mermaid and the siren, which symbolise female sexuality. It is perhaps of no surprise to find a sculpture of a nymph at a time when the rise of the `flapper' signalled a loosening of sexual mores. Water Nymph was unveiled in September 1925.","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"1925","inscription":"WATER NYMPH / PAUL MONTFORD","longitude":"-37.82220980420751","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"Montford, Paul
","property":"Queen Victoria Gardens","classification":"Sculpture","title":"The Water Nymph"},{"_id":18,"geo_point_2d":"-37.8142715063488, 144.94320071567864","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.94320071567864, -37.8142715063488], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":"Newquay Promenade between Harbour Esplanade and Palmyra Way","location":"Newquay Promenade approximately 5m SE of Monument Park at NewQuay, Monument Park, 21 Newquay Promenade, Docklands, 3008","latitude":"144.94320071567864","asset_id":"1631225","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"The sculpture is a multiple of three-dimensional figures over a space of roughly fifty square metres. The figures are up to five metres in height.
Callum Morton''''s inspiration was the use of existing monuments scattered in the Melbourne CBD along with the Hoddle grid. Those are then covered with a ''''concrete carpet'''', the carpet is then peeled back to reveal bursts of colour and landscaping.
Monument Park is a sculpture park located on NewQuay Promenade. The park is an example of a collaborative project between MAB Corporation, artist Callum Morton, McBride Charles Ryan Architects, Oculus Landscape Architects, City of Melbourne and Places Victoria.
","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"2014","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.8142715063488","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"Morton, Callum
","property":"Newquay Promenade","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Monument Park"},{"_id":19,"geo_point_2d":"-37.79662907585139, 144.924306747344","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.924306747344, -37.79662907585139], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"J J Holland Park approximately 51m SW of Kensington Community Recreation Centre, Kensington Community Centre, 111 Altona Street, Kensington, 3031","latitude":"144.924306747344","asset_id":"1517306","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Four-metre eels modelled on the Southern Shortfin Eel, a species native to the Yarra River so with special relevance to Melbourne. Originally they formed the two sides of a single work. Made by Mother''''s Art.
A series of 71 large artworks depicting fish was created for the opening ceremony of the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games. Each representing a nation of the Commonwealth, the fish sculptures were sited along the centre of the Yarra River, where they remained for the duration of the Games. They were such a `hit' with the public that after the games the sculptures were distributed to local governments and other not for profit bodies throughout Victoria. In early 2008, this component of the series was brought back into public life with its relocation to the Kensington Community Recreation Centre; here the two eels that comprise the work serve as mascots for the junior swimming squads.","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"2006","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.79662907585139","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":null,"makers":"Mothers Art Productions","property":"J J Holland Park","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Commonwealth Games Aquatic Sculptures - Eels"},{"_id":20,"geo_point_2d":"-37.826773338974526, 144.972752128938","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.972752128938, -37.826773338974526], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Kings Domain approximately 79m East of Marquis of Linlithgow Memorial Reserve, St Kilda Road, Melbourne, 3004","latitude":"144.972752128938","asset_id":"1086735","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Bronze statue of Sir John Monash in an equestrian pose, on a granite plinth.
A monument to Monash was proposed in 1932, the year after his death. It was funded by Melbourne City Council and public subscription. While designed by Bowles, the bronze was cast in Italy. But due to the outbreak of World War Two it was not completed until 1950. It was finally unveiled on 12th November 1950 by the Governor General, William J. McKell. The Governor, Sir Dallas Brooks, the Prime Minister, Robert Menzies, and Monash''''''''''''''''s daughter, Mrs Gershon Bennett were also in attendance.
John Monash was born in Melbourne in 1865. He obtained degrees in arts, law and engineering from the University of Melbourne, and worked on construction projects before the outbreak of World War One. Monash commanded the 4th Infantry Brigade at Gallipoli and then the 3rd Division in Armentières, France. In recognition of his military prowess and leadership skills, he was promoted to lieutenant general in 1918, commanding the Australian Army Corps. Following the war, Monash became general manager of the State Electricity Commission, and was instrumental in developing the brown-coal deposits of the Yallourn fields, Gippsland. He also served as the vice-chancellor of the University of Melbourne.
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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":22,"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":23,"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":24,"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":25,"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":26,"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":27,"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":28,"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":29,"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":30,"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":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":"-37.79535266830282, 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":33,"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":34,"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":35,"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":36,"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":37,"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":38,"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":39,"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":40,"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":41,"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":42,"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":43,"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":44,"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":45,"geo_point_2d":"-37.81243425403014, 144.97395547173446","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.97395547173446, -37.81243425403014], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Gordon Reserve approximately 44m West of Department of Treasury and Finance, 1 Macarthur Street, East Melbourne, 3002","latitude":"144.97395547173446","asset_id":"1086576","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"William Stanford's bluestone fountain features a boy on the upper tier, encircled by birds and fish on the lower tier. Water is sprayed from the top and from surrounding ornaments into a large basin. But this scene of innocence was created in a far less naive setting.
Stanford was apprenticed to a London stonemason before coming to Australia to try his luck on the Bendigo goldfields. When he failed to make his fortune, he turned to horse stealing, and in 1854 was imprisoned for 10 years. He was released after six on ticket-of-leave, but was soon found guilty on two charges of highway robbery and another of horse stealing. The sentences amounted to a total of 22 years, two of which were served as hard labour in irons after Stanford broke out of a supposedly `escape-proof' gaol in 1861. In Melbourne's Pentridge Prison, Stanford's talent for drawing and carving was recognised ' he carved bones left over from stews ' and the prison governor allowed him to turn his hand to carving stone. Local sculptor Charles Summers tutored Stanford, who soon set to carving a fountain from bluestone from the prison quarry, which was the only material available to him. He modelled the fountain's avian adornments on a stuffed eagle-hawk and modelled the boy on the governor's son.
The fountain was installed in Carpentaria Place (now known as Gordon Reserve) in 1871, following Stanford's release after he and his friends petitioned for this on the grounds of his ill health. The Illustrated Australian News claimed the fountain was `not only a work of great beauty but ... executed under circumstances of extreme difficulty [which for] most men would have been insurmountable'. Stanford received no payment for the fountain but in time became a respected citizen; he established a business in Windsor, which had a reputation for creating fine headstones. Stanford died in 1880 from `stonemasons' disease', having inhaled a surfeit of fine dust while creating his beautiful fountain.
","object_type":"Fountain","art_date":"c1870","inscription":"STANFORD FOUNTAIN / ERECTED 1871 / THIS FOUNTAIN OF VICTORIAN BASALT WAS DESIGNED, / SCULPTED AND / ERECTED BY WILLIAM STANFORD OF ST KILDA","longitude":"-37.81243425403014","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Parks Services Branch","makers":"Stanford, William","property":"Gordon Reserve","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Stanford Fountain"},{"_id":46,"geo_point_2d":"-37.81340997178163, 144.98110223857506","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.98110223857506, -37.81340997178163], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Fitzroy Gardens approximately 34m SW of The Pavilion, Fitzroy Gardens, Wellington Parade, East Melbourne, 3002","latitude":"144.98110223857506","asset_id":"1086740","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Series of carvings on stump of one of the original red gum trees in Fitzroy Gardens - depicting fairies, dwarfs, gnomes, jackass and a variety of Australian animals and birds.
Born in Bendigo in 1892, Ola Cohn excelled in art from an early age. She studied at Melbourne's Swinburne Technical College before winning a scholarship to study under acclaimed sculptor Henry Moore at London's Royal College of Art. Cohn exhibited widely in Britain and Europe before returning to Australia, where she established a studio in Collins Street in 1931. Cohn's talent and skills were recognised with an OBE, which was awarded to her in 1965 for ''services rendered in the service of art, especially sculpture'.
In undertaking the Fairies Tree, Cohn was inspired by Ivor Innes' Elfin Oak, located in Kensington Gardens, London. Commencing work on the Fairies Tree in 1931, Cohn spent three years carving the ancient Red Gum. She suffered the discomfort of weather extremes, stings by mosquitos and bees ' which had made the old tree stump their home ' and repeated acts of vandalism on the work.
Cohn worked in a fittingly organic fashion, using the trunk's natural irregularities to inspire her myriad carvings of Australian and European fairies, dwarfs, gnomes, imps, goblins, elves and animals. Upon completion in May 1934, the tree was gifted to the city's children. Cohn says she carved the tree `mostly for fairies and for those who believe in them'.
In 1977, the trunk was extracted from the ground for chemical treatment and for the removal of rotten wood. Following treatment, it was mounted on a concrete base in an effort to preserve the work. It continues to get regular conservation treatment.","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"1934","inscription":"THE FAIRIES' TREE / CARVED BY OLA COHN, MBE ARCA / FROM 1931-34 / A GIFT TO THE CHILDREN OF MELBOURNE / FOREWORD FROM HER BOOK 'THE FAIRIES' TREE' / \"I HAVE CARVED IN A TREE IN THE FITZROY GARDENS FOR YOU / AND THE FAIRIES, BUT MOSTLY FOR THE FAIRIES AND THOSE / WHO BELIEVE IN THEM, FOR THEY WILL UNDERSTAND HOW / NECESSARY IT IS TO HAVE A FAIRY SANCTUARY - A PLACE / THAT IS SACRED AND SAFE AS A HOME SHOULD BE TO / ALL LIVING CREATURES.\" / THEREFORE I DEDICATE THIS BOOK TO CHILDREN AND FAIRIES / AS IT IS TO THEM I OWE MY INSPIRATION / OLA COHN / MELBOURNE / 23RD MAY, 1932","longitude":"-37.81340997178163","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"COHN, Ola","property":"Fitzroy Gardens","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Fairies Tree"},{"_id":47,"geo_point_2d":"-37.8139538628485, 144.97857743610945","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.97857743610945, -37.8139538628485], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Fitzroy Gardens approximately 70m East of Toilet Fitzroy Gardens, 2 Lansdowne Street, East Melbourne, 3002","latitude":"144.97857743610945","asset_id":"1086751","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"A massive statue of a draped form, representing one woman in meditative introspection.
In 1933, The Age reported that \"Madame Gaston-Saint, of Orrong road, St Kilda, has offered the City Council a real art in the form of a large marble statue depicting Meditation. This piece is the work of the French sculptor Robert Delandere, and it was exhibited in the Grande Palais, Paris, where it excited favourable comment.\" Madame Gaston-Saint, an Australian who married a wealthy Frenchman, intended that the statue should be erected in memory of her father in Rheole, a small Victorian fruit growing town. Plans were damaged however, and the statue was presented to the Melbourne City Council in 1933. The Lord Mayor, Councillor Gengoult Smith, and the Chairman of the Parks and Gardens Committee, Alderman Stapley, together with other members of the Council accepted the statue from Madame Gaston-Saint in its current position on 24 April, 1933. They thanked her on behalf of the council and the City. Madame Gaston-Saint asked that the statue be offered \"to honour the sorrow of those mothers whose sons fell in the Great War 1914-1918\". Not everyone was happy with the work. Paul Montford, sculptor of the Peter Pan and Adam Lindsay Gordon statues, wrote to the Lord Mayor on 19 April 1933. \"Apparently this marble was carved for a cemetery, 'sorrow' was the subject meant, and it was rightly refused by those who gave the commission to the sculptor,\" he wrote. \"In my opinion its artistic value is far below any other statuary in the Fitzroy Gardens, and it is probably the worst figure in any public place in Melbourne.\"
","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"1933","inscription":"PRESENTED TO THE CITY OF MELBOURNE/BY/MADAME GASTON SAINT/Robert Delandere Paris","longitude":"-37.8139538628485","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"DELANDRE, Robert","property":"Fitzroy Gardens","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Statue of Meditation"},{"_id":48,"geo_point_2d":"-37.82530980334813, 144.97159425832896","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.97159425832896, -37.82530980334813], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Kings Domain","latitude":"144.97159425832896","asset_id":"1088238","history":"Following Dunlop's death in 1993, funds were raised through the Weary Dunlop Statue Appeal. The then Victorian premier, Jeff Kennett, unveiled Peter Corlett's memorial to Weary Dunlop on 15 August 1995. There is a second Weary Dunlop statue located at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra.
Born in Melbourne in 1944, Peter Corlett studied sculpture at RMIT. He has created several commemorative sculptures, including the Australian War Memorial's Simpson and His Donkey. Winning the commission for a memorial to Edward `Weary' Dunlop, Corlett produced a work that not only commemorated this extraordinary man but paid homage to all medical staff serving prisoners of war in Asia'Pacific during World War Two. The sculpture includes metal spikes that were used in the Burma'Thailand railway.
Weary Dunlop trained in Melbourne as a pharmacist before he turned to medicine. He then undertook surgical training in London, where he remained until the outbreak of World War Two. Dunlop joined the Medical Corps of the Australian Army. A surgeon of considerable skill, he served in a senior position in the Middle East and was then transferred to Java. In 1942, his company was captured by Japanese troops and imprisoned first inSingapore and then in Changi, Thailand. His company was sent to work on the Thai segment of the infamous Burma'Thailand railway. A natural organiser and leader, Dunlop led the first Australian prisoners of war who were to work on the line. He was a courageous leader and compassionate doctor, and restored morale in those terrible prison camps and jungle hospitals. He defied his captors, gave hope to the sick and eased the anguish of the dying.
After 1945 and with the war behind him, Dunlop turned his energies to healing and to building bridges; he worked towards the health and welfare of former prisoners of war and their families, and towards promoting better relations between Australia and Asia.","owner_type":"Owned","description":"Large, bronze statue of ''''''''Weary'''''''' Dunlop is fixed to a granite pedestal. The statue stands above stairs constructed from ironbark railway sleepers and stone. Metal spikes from the Burma Thailand railway are used in the sculpture. On the steps leading to the sculpture are the names of other doctors and medical staff who also cared for POWs.","object_type":"Memorial","art_date":"1995","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.82530980334813","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"CORLETT, Peter
Born Melbourrne 1944","property":"Kings Domain","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Sir Edward ''''''''Weary'''''''' Dunlop"},{"_id":49,"geo_point_2d":"-37.81369576317149, 144.96851299989842","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.96851299989842, -37.81369576317149], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":"Russell Street between Little Collins Street and Bourke Street","location":"Russell Street between Little Collins Street and Bourke Street approximately 15m West of Brioche by Philip, Shop 1, Ground, 114 Russell Street, Melbourne, 3000","latitude":"144.96851299989842","asset_id":"1088259","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"This monumental sculpture by Melbourne artist Maurie Hughes has been designed to take advantage of the movement of traffic and pedestrians. The use of staggered plinths explores the concept of `journey' and the pomp of ceremonial processions. The work also references Chris Reynolds' A History Apparatus, which is located on the same median strip on the corner of Bourke Street. The idea of `spirit' is conveyed symbolically in the flue, through which forces trapped under the earth can be released into the air. This element of the complex sculpture, with its urn, archways and sentinels, is central to the commission.
Funded by Telstra and the City of Melbourne's Urban & Public Art Program, the sculpture is linked to the redevelopment of Telstra's former Russell Street exchange. The site incorporates the ventilation point for the 6.5 kilometres of decommissioned Telstra tunnels that run beneath Melbourne's CBD and which housed the line network. Hughes' sculptural vent was commissioned with a brief to incorporate the functional and visually meaningful elements of the vent.
Unveiled Friday 13 September 1996","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"1996","inscription":"CEREMONY AND VEHICLE FOR CONVEYING SPIRIT BY MAURIE HUGHES/PRESENTED AS A GIFT TO THE CITY OF MELBOURNE ON 13 SEPTEMBER 1996 BY TELSTRA","longitude":"-37.81369576317149","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"Hughes, Maurie
","property":null,"classification":"Sculpture","title":"Ceremony and Vehicle for Conveying Spirit"},{"_id":50,"geo_point_2d":"-37.80314275282813, 144.96987438289304","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.96987438289304, -37.80314275282813], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Exhibition Building & Melbourne Museum approximately 47m SE of Sacred Heart, 169 Rathdowne Street, Carlton, 3053","latitude":"144.96987438289304","asset_id":"1545280","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Ground-level bluestone-tile fountain with nine jets, nine lights, and three large granite slabs at its edges.
This ground-level bluestone-tile fountain replaced the original Grollo Fountain when Centennial Hall was superseded by the new Melbourne Museum. Luigi
Grollo presented the original fountain on behalf of the family companies in 1980, to celebrate the centennial year of the Royal Exhibition Building. It was a project of mammoth proportions, both structurally and financially, featuring 44 water jets set in concentric rings and using 5500 gallons of recycled water per minute. It's more modest replacement has just nine jets and nine lights, and three large granite slabs at its edges.","object_type":"Fountain","art_date":"2001","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.80314275282813","company":null,"service_manager":null,"makers":null,"property":"Exhibition Building & Melbourne Museum","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Grollo Fountain"},{"_id":51,"geo_point_2d":"-37.818010565097374, 144.94683073925555","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.94683073925555, -37.818010565097374], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Victoria Point approximately 29m NE of Bendigo And Adelaide Bank, 108 Harbour Esplanade, Docklands, 3008","latitude":"144.94683073925555","asset_id":"1560993","history":null,"owner_type":"Not Owned","description":"Made from toughened safety glass and LED lighting within a steel frame, Poise is shimmering and crystalline by day and glowing blue by night. According to the artist, \"It would appear that every culture has within its mythology a sacred vessel. These vessels are variously perceived as receptacles of something precious, whether spiritual intent or otherwise. Here, the precarious position of the vessel speaks of the delicate state of balance.\"","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"2005","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.818010565097374","company":"VicUrban","service_manager":null,"makers":"Warren Langley","property":"Victoria Point","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Poise"},{"_id":52,"geo_point_2d":"-37.821109293482905, 144.96967311696216","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.96967311696216, -37.821109293482905], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Queen Victoria Gardens","latitude":"144.96967311696216","asset_id":"1086517","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"A marble replica bust of Hercules as found in the Vatican Museum, Rome. Dramatically represented with powerful shoulders and head twisted to the right, Farnex Hercules is a classical representation of a powerful hero. The bust sits atop two large granite blocks fixed one on top of the other.
Half god, half-human, Hercules was both the most famous hero of ancient times and the most beloved. Born out of an illicit affair between Zeus and a beautiful mortal woman, Alcmene, Hercules had to bear tremendous hardship at the hand of Hera, wife of Zeus and Queen of the Gods. His is the story of a man so strong and courageous, whose deeds were so mighty, and who so endured all the hardships that were given to him, that when he died, Hercules was brought up to Mount Olympus to live with the gods.
Farnex Hercules was donated to the city by well-known solicitor, politician, newspaper proprietor and educationalist Theodore Fink. He acquired the bust and a replica of the Belvedere Apollo as gifts to the people of Melbourne, when visiting Rome; the works were unveiled in 1928. Fink's donation marked the end of a tradition of placing copies of classical statuary in Melbourne's public gardens, a tradition that took root in the 1860s. Most were removed by the 1930s.
The two busts were unveiled on the 2 October 1928 at the main entry to the Queen Victoria Gardens. Fink hoped the busts would ''''''''''''''''not only beautify our parks but elevate the taste of people and help them to appreciate fine things, stimulate the national love of beauty, that will express itself in the work of Australian sculptors and artists.'''''''''''''''' This donation marked the end of a tradition of placing copies of classical statuary in Melbourne''''''''''''''''s public gardens. Since the 1860s the Fitzroy, Flagstaff and Carlton Gardens had been profusely ornamented with casts of sculptures from the National Gallery and elsewhere. But by Fink''''''''''''''''s time these had gone out of fashion and were allowed to deteriorate. Most were removed by the 1930s. The position of the busts was slightly altered when Alexandra Avenue was lowered to pass below St Kilda Road.
","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":null,"inscription":"Front: HERCULES, STRENGTH AND SERVICE / REPRODUCTION 18TH CENTURY OF BUST ORIGINALLY IN MUSEUM NAPLES / PRESENTED TO THE PEOPLE OF MELBOURNE / BY MR THEODORE FINK
Side: UNVEILED BY THE MAYOR SIR STEPHEN J. MORELL / 2 OCTOBER 1928","longitude":"-37.821109293482905","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"Unknown","property":"Queen Victoria Gardens","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Farnex Hercules"},{"_id":53,"geo_point_2d":"-37.798257825618585, 144.97056462844986","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.97056462844986, -37.798257825618585], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Macarthur Square approximately 30m North of 71 Macarthur Place South, Carlton, 3053","latitude":"144.97056462844986","asset_id":"1086585","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Shrine like architectural structure summounted by life size bust of William Ievers (Jnr). 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 for 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. At the unveiling of this second monument, Minister Mutchinson claimed: `the residents of Melbourne should be grateful to the Parks & Gardens Committee for having transformed ugly, vacant spaces into beauty spots and breathing spaces for the city'.
","object_type":"Drinking Fountain","art_date":"1915","inscription":"ERECTED BY COUNCILLOR GEORGE HAWKINS IEVERS, J.P. / IN MEMORY OF HIS BROTHER / COUNCILLOR WM. IEVERS JUNR., M.P.,/ CARLTON SOUTH, WHO LIVED IN SMITH WARD, / FROM 1855 TO 1895 / A GOOD SON, BROTHER AND CITIZEN / 1915","longitude":"-37.798257825618585","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Parks Services Branch","makers":"Richardson, Charles Douglas","property":"Macarthur Square","classification":"Memorials","title":"William Ievers (Jnr) Memorial Drinking Fountain"},{"_id":54,"geo_point_2d":"-37.8221241231269, 144.9706619741479","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.9706619741479, -37.8221241231269], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Queen Victoria Gardens","latitude":"144.9706619741479","asset_id":"1086738","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Two small bronze children, a girl and a boy, leaning over a stream that meanders down to the lake. The girl is kneeling on her hands and knees, the boy lying down, one foot in the air, one hand scooping the water.
Like The Pathfinder, this sculpture was in fact commissioned by Conzinc Riotinto (now known as Rio Tinto). It was purchased by the City of Melbourne in 1973 as a part of its re-landscaping of the gardens. While this sculpture wasn't commissioned for the site, it demonstrates a shift towards more realist statuary that engages with its environment.","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"c1970","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.8221241231269","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"Robinson, John Edward","property":"Queen Victoria Gardens","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Water Children"},{"_id":55,"geo_point_2d":"-37.81869383024415, 144.94685633758888","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.94685633758888, -37.81869383024415], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":"Harbour Esplanade between Bourke Street and La Trobe Street","location":"Harbour Esplanade between Bourke Street and La Trobe Street approximately 25m West of De Gusto, 768B Bourke Street, Docklands, 3008","latitude":"144.94685633758888","asset_id":"1092464","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"The large sculptural work Aurora, at Victoria Point, engages with the history of Docklands. The work's central component is a sweeping netlike form constructed in stainless steel, held aloft by three curved and tapering stainless-steel legs. It is suggestive of technologies once used to move cargo between ships and shore, underscoring the historical importance of the site as a shipping port.
The work encourages passers-by to walk through it, but the vertical elements also draw the viewer's attention up to the main, netlike component, challenging them to consider its meaning.
Named after the Greek goddess of dawn, Aurora's stainless-steel surface is highly reflective and responds to changes in natural light during the day. By night, the main component is lit internally, creating the impression of a glowing orb suspended above street level.
","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"2005","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.81869383024415","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":null,"makers":"BARTLETT, Geoffrey","property":null,"classification":"Sculpture","title":"Aurora"},{"_id":56,"geo_point_2d":"-37.8142734273307, 144.94546323616404","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.94546323616404, -37.8142734273307], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"The Innovation Building approximately 52m East of NBN, Ground & Lvls 1-2 & 4, 192 Harbour Esplanade, Docklands, 3008","latitude":"144.94546323616404","asset_id":"1562896","history":null,"owner_type":"Not Owned","description":"Walking down Harbour Lane is like walking into a virtual game world, especially at night when illuminated icons really come to life. The colourful icons are embedded under foot and in the walls at the end of the lane, like futuristic graffiti. They define a playing field that can be activated via mobile phone (using Bluetooth). If you have a phone with you, connect and join the game now or later at www.fieldofplay.net.","object_type":"Artwork","art_date":"2007","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.8142734273307","company":null,"service_manager":null,"makers":"Troy Innocent","property":"The Innovation Building","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Field of Play"},{"_id":57,"geo_point_2d":"-37.81510709421359, 144.9415465168603","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.9415465168603, -37.81510709421359], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":"Newquay Promenade between Saint Mangos Lane and Rakaia Way","location":"Newquay Promenade approximately 20m NE of All Smiles, 55B Newquay Promenade, Docklands, 3008","latitude":"144.9415465168603","asset_id":"1092461","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Silence comprises 13 sculptural elements in fibreglass resin, which unfold across an area of 18.5 metres by 12.5 metres outside Arkley Tower. The tallest of the sculptures stands 4.6 metres high. Coated in white acrylic paint, the sensuous, smooth forms that comprise the work suggest an abstracted natural environment, which becomes surreal by night when the sculpture is lit. The work has a quiet presence, invoking contemplation and yet inviting the viewer to walk among the elements and to touch them. The artist says of the work that it is `a series of forms arousing to the mind, appealing to memory'.
The state government requires that all Docklands developers spend one per cent of their project costs commissioning integrated artworks. Silence was the first significant artwork to be installed at NewQuay.","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"2002","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.81510709421359","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":null,"makers":"Mauriks, Adrian
","property":"Newquay Promenade","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Silence"},{"_id":58,"geo_point_2d":"-37.8224051515098, 144.97064348351407","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.97064348351407, -37.8224051515098], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Queen Victoria Gardens","latitude":"144.97064348351407","asset_id":"1091145","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"The historic Queen Victoria Gardens incorporates several ponds and water features. This simple waterfall and pond date to 1912 and includes a stone statue of a child with fish.","object_type":"Waterfall","art_date":"1912","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.8224051515098","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Parks Services Branch","makers":"Unknown","property":"Queen Victoria Gardens","classification":"Memorials","title":"Children''''s Lake Waterfall"},{"_id":59,"geo_point_2d":"-37.811529640687034, 144.97517029157777","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.97517029157777, -37.811529640687034], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Burston Reserve approximately 23m NE of Tram Shelter, 11 Macarthur Street, East Melbourne, 3002","latitude":"144.97517029157777","asset_id":"1291344","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"(Aka Women's Suffrage)
A white scroll-like structure, which is twenty metres long and imposing on the small reserve.
Great Petition is a sculpture by Susan Hewitt and Penelope Lee, commemorating the 100th anniversary of female suffrage in Victoria. The plinth, designed in consideration of the sloping site, is made of bluestone, grounding the artwork in an archetypal Melbourne material. Alongside the sculpture, there is a didactic panel by Australian historian, Professor Marilyn Lake, explaining the history of women''''''''s suffrage in Victoria.
Launched on 3 December, 2008, Great Petition constitutes a contemporary interpretation of the Monster Petition ' a petition with more than 30,000 signatures presented to Parliament in 1891 as evidence of the wide-spread support to given women Victorians voting rights. Female suffrage was finally granted in 1908 with the passage of the Adult Suffrage Act.
Supporters: Victorian Women''''''''s Trust and Dulux
","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"2008","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.811529640687034","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"HEWITT, Susan; LEE, Penelope","property":"Burston Reserve","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Great Petition"},{"_id":60,"geo_point_2d":"-37.785591277837064, 144.96931421689305","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.96931421689305, -37.785591277837064], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Approximately 30m NE of CitiPower, Substation 5, Macpherson Street, Carlton North, 3054","latitude":"144.96931421689305","asset_id":"1086758","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Stone Drinking Fountain also known as Hardy Drinking Fountain.
In 1939, this stone fountain was erected and the reserve named in honour of Robert John Hardy, who represented the Victoria Ward from 1915 to 1937. The fountain also honours his son, Frederick George Jack Hardy, who succeeded him and represented the ward for 37 years. In May 1977, a plaque was unveiled on each side of the fountain, recognising the services of the men. Unveiled 1939
","object_type":"Drinking Fountain","art_date":"1939","inscription":"HARDY RESERVE/THIS PLAQUE WAS ERECTED/BY THE MELBOURNE CITY COUNCIL/IN RECOGNITION OF THE SERVICES OF/COUNCILLOR ROBERT JOHN HARDY/TO THE CITY OF MELBOURNE AS A MEMBER/TO THE VICTORIA WARD FROM/17 MAY 1915 TO 23 MAY 1937/THIS PLAQUE WAS ERECTED/BY THE /MELBOURNE CITY COUNCIL/IN RECOGNITION OF THE SERVICES OF/COUNCILLOR FREDERICK GEORGE JACK HARDY/TO THE CITY OF MELBOURNE AS A MEMBER/TO THE VICTORIA WARD FROM/24 AUGUST 1938 TO 29 MAY 1975","longitude":"-37.785591277837064","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Parks Services Branch","makers":"Unknown","property":null,"classification":"Memorials","title":"R.J. & F.G.J. Hardy Memorial Drinking Fountain"},{"_id":61,"geo_point_2d":"-37.79627940870039, 144.92687427968494","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.92687427968494, -37.79627940870039], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Warun Biik Park approximately 39m SW of 34 Derby Street, Kensington, 3031","latitude":"144.92687427968494","asset_id":"1638161","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Created by artist Julie Gorman this sculpture depicts faces in profile taken from art works from all over the world and assembled around a steel pole. The work, suggesting a kind of world globe, responds to the idea of people from all over the world living together in one shared space. Each face is painted a different colour to create a visual effect. Passers-by can clearly see each distinct profile standing out from the others. The work was created to form part of a series of artworks located in the Kensington development.","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"2012","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.79627940870039","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":null,"makers":"GORMAN, Julia
","property":"Warun Biik Park","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Faces"},{"_id":62,"geo_point_2d":"-37.83339205559024, 144.9722466732223","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.9722466732223, -37.83339205559024], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Approximately 84m SW of Melbourne Grammar School, Wadhurst Campus, Melbourne Grammar School, 1 Domain Road, Melbourne, 3004","latitude":"144.9722466732223","asset_id":"1091148","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"An obelisk adorned with a cross. The four sandstone lions are a 1952 addition.
Administered by the City of Port Phillip","object_type":"Memorial","art_date":"1903","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.83339205559024","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"Irwin and Stephenson","property":null,"classification":"Sculpture","title":"Boer War Monument"},{"_id":63,"geo_point_2d":"-37.81810144655276, 144.9717599103583","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.9717599103583, -37.81810144655276], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Birrarung Marr approximately 23m North of Toilet Birrarung Marr, Batman Avenue, Melbourne, 3000","latitude":"144.9717599103583","asset_id":"1638163","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"ArtPlay developed its `Backyard' area over a number of years ' consulting with children and families regarding both the physical environment and the programming for the Backyard. As part of this process, children worked with artist Ann Ferguson to make ceramic tiles in the shape of trees and buildings later incorporated into the project Futurescape.
The Bank of Melbourne then supported a new project Futurescape with Helen Bodycomb where a collaborative mosaic work would be created on the `planes' of a giant split rock. The project involved 8 sessions where children developed the ideas for and drew pictures of a future Melbourne. Together with Helen, the children then made some of the elements they had drawn using mosaics and helped to lay them out. Approximately 80 children were involved. Helen completed the work in her studio in Castlemaine.
This project exemplifies ArtPlay's work of bringing children and professional artists together to work on artistic projects; where the children have a genuine contribution to the work created.","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"2013","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.81810144655276","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":null,"makers":"BODYCOMB, Helen (and the children at ArtPlay)","property":"Birrarung Marr","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Futurescape"},{"_id":64,"geo_point_2d":"-37.81609978073489, 144.96717855091975","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.96717855091975, -37.81609978073489], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"City Square approximately 16m SW of Three Below, Shop 3, 207 Collins Street, Melbourne, 3000","latitude":"144.96717855091975","asset_id":"1561983","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Warin the Wombat was carved on location at City Square from a 2½ tonne red gum log and sits happily in a sandpit. Carving of the wombat took 2 weeks to complete behind safety barriers erected by the Melbourne City Council to enable the citizens of Melbourne to follow its creation. Many people visited the site on an almost daily basis to follow the progress and it''''''''s completion in January 2002. The wombat is named \" Warin \" pronounced Wareeyn , a name derived from the local dialect of the two most important Aboriginal tribes of the Melbourne area.
Due to the Melbourne Metro Rail Project Warin the Wombat has moved to a new location beside the Yarra River at Birrarung Marr.","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"2002","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.81609978073489","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":null,"makers":"McKenna, Des","property":"City Square","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Warin the Wombat"},{"_id":65,"geo_point_2d":"-37.81856096072415, 144.96871769443098","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.96871769443098, -37.81856096072415], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Federation Square approximately 14m North of Riverland Bar, Vault, 1-9 Princes Walk, Melbourne, 3000","latitude":"144.96871769443098","asset_id":"1560994","history":null,"owner_type":"Not Owned","description":"Fire, light and the Australian outback are evoked in Red Centre by Konstantin Dimopoulos. Red Centre was commissioned for Federation Square and is a permanent sculpture between the Main Square and the Yarra River. It provides a visual link between the top of River Terrace and the creative spaces of Birrarung Marr and ArtPlay.","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"2006","inscription":"Red Centre 2006. Konstantin Dimopoulos. Fire is an essential part of the Australian landscape. It both destroys and regenerates. The flame also provides warmth and a place for communities to gather. A meeting place.","longitude":"-37.81856096072415","company":"Federation Square","service_manager":null,"makers":"Konstantin Dimopoulos","property":"Federation Square","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Red Centre"},{"_id":66,"geo_point_2d":"-37.82563931949892, 144.9767610755197","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.9767610755197, -37.82563931949892], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Kings Domain","latitude":"144.9767610755197","asset_id":"1091165","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"This feature, funded by public subscription, encompasses stonewalls and pathways in a leafy glade and fernery. It provides a tranquil setting within the Kings Domain. Water cascades through a series of features into a cement grotto, then flows into a series of circular pools. When the water feature is running, bridges and pathways provide meandering walkways around the pools.","object_type":"Waterfall","art_date":"1981","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.82563931949892","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Parks Services Branch","makers":"City of Melbourne","property":"Kings Domain","classification":"Memorials","title":"Grotto Waterfall"},{"_id":67,"geo_point_2d":"-37.8024440893138, 144.9658752846091","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.9658752846091, -37.8024440893138], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Argyle Square approximately 63m South of 18 Argyle Place North, Carlton, 3053","latitude":"144.9658752846091","asset_id":"1092458","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Landscaped park off Lygon St in Carlton with stone paved piazza featuring large sundial design and steps leading up from street","object_type":"Paving","art_date":"2005","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.8024440893138","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":null,"makers":"Porphyry Pty Ltd","property":"Argyle Square","classification":"Unknown","title":"Argyle Square Piazza"},{"_id":68,"geo_point_2d":"-37.794904787706386, 144.94038350587135","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.94038350587135, -37.794904787706386], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Approximately 9m SE of 30 Buncle Street, North Melbourne, 3051","latitude":"144.94038350587135","asset_id":"1086723","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Comprising nine large asphalt squares inset with small glazed-ceramic tiles, the work is sited in the pathway leading into Hotham Estate.
This artwork resulted from a collaborative project between Bernice McPherson and local residents.","object_type":"Pavement inlay","art_date":"1995","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.794904787706386","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":null,"makers":"McPherson, Bernice","property":null,"classification":"Sculpture","title":"Hotham Hill Pavement Inlay"},{"_id":69,"geo_point_2d":"-37.82424172908065, 144.97098228796784","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.97098228796784, -37.82424172908065], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Kings Domain approximately 73m East of Faculty Of The VCA & Music, Building 871, 204-234 St Kilda Road, Southbank, 3006","latitude":"144.97098228796784","asset_id":"1091623","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Grassed amphitheatre set into the edge of Kings Domain with a 3m curvilinear bluestone wall featuring four arched entry portals facing St Kilda Road. An elliptical stage features a raised replica of the Victoria Police emblem (1m diameter) constructed from various coloured stone. Bordering the top edge of the wall is a checked pattern of Riverina granite and bluestone tiles. The names of Police officers who died on duty are cast in bronze plaques set into the wall.
The memorial is in honour of police officers killed on duty and is a direct response to the deaths of Sergeant Gary Silk and Senior Constable Rodney Miller in 1998.
Unveiled Friday 5th July, 2002
","object_type":"Memorial","art_date":"2002","inscription":"Front Inscription: This memorial recognises the ultimate sacrifice paid by members of the Victoria Police Force in maintaining law & order in Victoria. The memorial stands as a symbol of the community''''''''''''''''s deepest respect and as a tribute to those members of the Victoria Police Force who have given their lives in the line of duty so that the Victorian community is a safer place for all.
Dedicated by the Hon. Steve Bracks MP Premier of Victoria, The Hon. Andre Haermeyer MP Minister for Police and Emergency Services, Chief Commissioner Christine Nixon APM Victoria Police 5 July 2002
","longitude":"-37.82424172908065","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Parks Services Branch","makers":"HASELL, Anton; WARD, Marcus","property":"Kings Domain","classification":"Memorials","title":"Victoria Police Memorial"},{"_id":70,"geo_point_2d":"-37.825371742115266, 144.9759001606588","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.9759001606588, -37.825371742115266], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Kings Domain approximately 94m East of City of Melbourne, Kings Domain, Alexandra Avenue, Melbourne, 3004","latitude":"144.9759001606588","asset_id":"1091178","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Hasell's interactive sculpture consists of three connecting bells cast in bronze, and features images of Aston. When this work is approached, movement sensors trigger a series of tolls. Fittingly, the inscription on one bell is in Braille.
Tilly Aston was the first blind person in Australia to attend university, but her education was cut short by an absence of textbooks in Braille. In 1894, she established a Braille library and a year later founded the Association for the Blind, the aim of which was to improve the quality of life for the blind through self-help rather than through charity. She was responsible for gaining the blind free post for Braille and talking books, free travel on public transport and the right to vote.
This sculpture by Victorian artist Anton Hasell commemorates the centenary of the Vision Australia Foundation and the life and achievements of its founder, Tilly Aston. Formerly known as the Association for the Blind, this organisation has provided services and advocacy for people with blindness and vision impairment since 1895.
Unveiled 28 April, 1999
","object_type":"Memorial","art_date":"1999","inscription":"Poor eyes limit your site, poor vision limits your deeds. Fittingly, the inscription on one bell is in Braille.","longitude":"-37.825371742115266","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"HASELL, Anton
","property":"Kings Domain","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Tilly Aston Bell"},{"_id":71,"geo_point_2d":"-37.81069512351951, 144.953685866683","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.953685866683, -37.81069512351951], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Flagstaff Gardens approximately 82m NE of Haileybury City, Basement , Ground & Level 1-9, 383 King Street, West Melbourne, 3003","latitude":"144.953685866683","asset_id":"1088154","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Mixed stone sculpture including Castlemaine slate, sandstone granite and marble in layered brick-like structure.
Flagstaff Gardens is a heritage site of much significance to Melbourne. It is the oldest public gardens, the settlement's first burial site and the place at which the flag would be raised to signal an incoming ship. Flagstaff Gardens was also the site from which news of Victoria's separation from NSW was signalled to Melbourne residents through the lighting of a great bonfire. This sculpture was created to mark the centenary of the proclamation of separation.
","object_type":"Memorial","art_date":"1950","inscription":"THIS TABLET / WAS ERECTED TO COMMEMORATE / THE ONE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY / OF THE PROCLAMATION OF / VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT / ON THIS SITE ON 11TH NOVEMBER 1850 / AND WAS UNVEILED ON 11TH NOVEMBER 1950 / BY HIS EXCELLENCY / THE GOVERNOR OF VICTORIA / GENERAL SIR DALLAS BROOKS / KCB, KMG, DSO, RM. / JAMES S. DISNEY JP (LORD MAYOR) / H.S. WOOTTON CMG (TOWN CLERK)","longitude":"-37.81069512351951","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"unknown","property":"Flagstaff Gardens","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Separation Memorial"},{"_id":72,"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":73,"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":74,"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":75,"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":76,"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":77,"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":78,"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
","object_type":"Bust","art_date":"1905","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.81372573647249","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"Richardson, Charles Douglas","property":null,"classification":"Sculpture","title":"Sir Samuel Gillott"},{"_id":79,"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":80,"geo_point_2d":"-37.79217291379831, 144.9580902280125","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.9580902280125, -37.79217291379831], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":"The Avenue between MacArthur Road and Gatehouse Street","location":"The Avenue between MacArthur Road and Gatehouse Street approximately 28m NE of CitiPower, Substation 22 Rear, 163 Gatehouse Street, Parkville, 3052","latitude":"144.9580902280125","asset_id":"1086586","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Shrine-like architectural structure with marble bust positioned on top. Architecture constructed from grey Harcourt and polished Swedish red granite, bluestone steps. Drinking element in base under canopy. One of three memorial fountains dedicated to the Ievers family as a token of gratitude for the community''''''''s support.
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.
","object_type":"Drinking Fountain","art_date":"1916","inscription":"PRESENTED BY COUNCILLOR GEORGE HAWKINS IEVERS, J.P. / TO THE CITIZENS OF SMITH WARD, / AMONGST WHOM HE HAS LOVED FOR THE PAST 61 YEARS / AS A THANKS OFFERING TO THEM FOR HAVING RETRURNED HIM / UNOPPOSED, AS ONE OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVES, SINCE 1901. / UNVEILED 13th September 1916","longitude":"-37.79217291379831","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Parks Services Branch","makers":"Richardson, Charles Douglas","property":null,"classification":"Memorials","title":"George Hawkins Ievers Memorial Drinking Fountain"},{"_id":81,"geo_point_2d":"-37.82072476624313, 144.9523913264332","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.9523913264332, -37.82072476624313], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":"Wurundjeri Way between Bourke Street and Flinders Street","location":"Wurundjeri Way between Bourke Street and Flinders Street","latitude":"144.9523913264332","asset_id":"1559938","history":null,"owner_type":"Not Owned","description":"Melbourne sculptor Bruce Armstrong's Eagle was commissioned to commemorate the naming of Wurundjeri Way. The work evokes Bunjil, the spirit creator of the Kulin nations which includes the Wurundjeri people. Bunjil took the form of both man and eagle during his time on Earth, and his spirit continues to offer guidance to those who choose to listen. Made from jarrah timber, aluminium and glass, Eagle keeps a watchful eye over Docklands.","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"2003","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.82072476624313","company":"VicUrban","service_manager":null,"makers":"Bruce Armstrong","property":null,"classification":"Sculpture","title":"Eagle"},{"_id":82,"geo_point_2d":"-37.811253732897356, 144.969347694358","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.969347694358, -37.811253732897356], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Chinatown Plaza","latitude":"144.969347694358","asset_id":"1091457","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"In Cohen Place, just off the main artery of Chinatown, two marble lions stand sentry at the door to the Chinese Museum.
Often called Fu Lions (Lions of Buddha or Rui Shi), guardian lions first appeared during the Han Dynasty (206 BC'220 AD), after early travelers first saw them at Buddhist temples in India. The lions were thought to have mythic power and were stationed at temple doors to protect the dharma. In China they were traditionally placed at the gates to imperial palaces and tombs, temples and government offices to ward off evil and misfortune, but over the centuries they've shifted into the more popular realm, now even featuring outside supermarkets. They most commonly appear in pairs, the male lion playing with a ball (representing the world) and positioned to the right of the doorway, and the female, depicted with a cub (representing the family), positioned to the left.
They were a gift from the city of Tianjin, in recognition of Melbourne as its sister city.
","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"unknown","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.811253732897356","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"unknown","property":"Chinatown Plaza","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Tianjin Garden Chinese Lion Guardians"},{"_id":83,"geo_point_2d":"-37.82594145408015, 144.9718567903399","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.9718567903399, -37.82594145408015], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Kings Domain approximately 80m North of Marquis of Linlithgow Memorial Reserve, St Kilda Road, Melbourne, 3004","latitude":"144.9718567903399","asset_id":"1086589","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Also known as: South African War Memorial (Monument to the 5th Victorian Contingent) or Victorian Mounted Rifles Memorial
The monument consists of a dressed sandstone upper section resembling a buttressed church spire, with four bronze plaques commemorating the fallen soldiers of the 5th Victorian Contingent. This sits on a rough faced Basalt plinth. The monument is triangular with one face oriented due west, as is common with memorials to lost soldiers. Unveiled 28 May 1904
The Boer War, or South African War, was fought from 1899 to 1902, the British pitted against the Boers (now called Afrikaners). Many opposed Britain's policy, and in Australia many questioned why the nation should be involved. Nevertheless, loyalty to Empire ruled and 16,000 troops were sent, almost a quarter from Victoria. The 5th Victorian Contingent was the largest of eight sent by the state. Some 228 Victorians were killed during the war, which ended with the signing of the Treaty of Vereeniging in May 1902.
Following the return of soldiers, the remaining members of the 5th Victorian Contingent erected this monument to honour their fallen comrades. It is a secular memorial, with traditional funerary symbolism on an elaborate and Gothic scale. Four bronze plaques commemorate the soldiers and in part the text reads: `Unveiled by members of the 5th Victorian Contingent VMR / in memory of their fallen comrades in South Africa 1901'1902 / Honour the brave / King and Empire / Lest we forget / AD 1903'. One face of the monument is oriented due west, as is common with memorials to lost soldiers.
The monument was originally constructed opposite the Victoria Barracks, on St Kilda Road, but was relocated in 1965. In 1911, it was decided that a memorial would be erected to all Australians who perished during the war; the Boer War Memorial is located nearby and now administered by the City of Port Phillip.","object_type":"Memorial Sculpture","art_date":"1904","inscription":"UNVEILED BY MEMBERS OF THE 5TH VICTORIAN CONTINGENT V.M.R. / IN MEMORY OF THEIR FALLEN COMRADES IN SOUTH AFRICA 1901 - 1902 / HONOUR THE BRAVE / KING AND EMPIRE / LEST WE FORGET / AD 1903","longitude":"-37.82594145408015","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"HAMILTON, Joseph","property":"Kings Domain","classification":"Sculpture","title":"South African War Memorial (Memorial to Fallen Soldiers)"},{"_id":84,"geo_point_2d":"-37.81270567583463, 144.96515394995706","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.96515394995706, -37.81270567583463], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":"Swanston Street between Bourke Street and Little Bourke Street","location":"Swanston Street between Bourke Street and Little Bourke Street approximately 9m NE of Mdranking Melbourne, 215-217 Swanston Street, Melbourne, 3000","latitude":"144.96515394995706","asset_id":"1088258","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Ginger's non-figurative The Echo takes its inspiration from Melbourne's rich and diverse cultures, particularly its Asian cultures. Both the design and vibrant sienna colouring of the work have strong associations with Eastern spirituality.
The Echo is sited close to Chinatown and what was, at the time of installation, the Bank of Hong Kong, with the intention of connecting the work to its cultural environment. The design also seeks to integrate disparate aspects; Ginger has incorporated seating to encourage passers-by to linger and to interact with the sculpture, and to see it as part of the streetscape rather than as an interloper from the lofty world of art.
The sculpture was unveiled on 5th February 1997.
","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"1996","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.81270567583463","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"GINGER, Edward","property":null,"classification":"Sculpture","title":"The Echo"},{"_id":85,"geo_point_2d":"-37.82871122068199, 144.9741444132895","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.9741444132895, -37.82871122068199], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Kings Domain South","latitude":"144.9741444132895","asset_id":"1562328","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"An open timber structure above and panels either side pay tribute to the people of Malta, and to those who served in her defence during World War II. Also known as the Shelter of Peace.
Erected with the support of the Maltese and Australian governments, the City of Melbourne, and ANPAS Group (Frank R Gatt), Calleja Transport, Econo Mix, Mid Med Bank, Olex Cables, Plamer Tube Mills, Sims Metal, Smorgon Arc, Chasmic PTY LTD and the Maltese Australian Association.
Designed by Max Chester.
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For most of its venerable past Speakers Corner has been known as Yarra Bank, a site for political, religious and ideological debate. Between 1890 and the 1960s orators would gather to articulate their views on local and international issues. It was originally a one-hectare, heavily treed area at the western tip of Flinders Park, where orators voiced opinion and dissent from nine bluestone-faced granite mounds (probably built in the 20th century). The site was most attended during periods of upheaval and struggle, such as during World War I, the Depression and the 1940s, when leftist politics were beginning to feel the force of repression. From the 1960s, and with the rise of more varied media, the site has been comparatively quiet, serving as a meeting place for participants following the annual May Day parade.
The construction of the Exhibition Street extension to Batman Avenue in the late 1990s saw changes to Speakers Corner, now integrated into the western point of Birrarung Marr. It was reduced in size to a half hectare, eight of its established trees were removed and three of its mounds were re-sited at the western side of the site. An interpretive sculpture by Evangelos Sakaris has been added, comprising four low-lying, stepped pink-granite outcrops. Inscribed with quotations, these outcrops are spread across the site. The National Speakers Association of Australia was responsible for a commemorative plaque being placed at the site. It honours all those who, throughout history, have informed the public on matters of interest and concern.
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An official war artist, Ewers produced many fine memorials in the wake of the war, including the Drouin War Memorial, the Kakoda Memorial in Papua New Guinea and the Sir Thomas Blamey Memorial in Melbourne. Raymond Ewers said of his portrait, \"Different people remember President Kennedy at different periods in his life. I chose to depict him worried and serious as he was shortly before his death.\"
Following the 1963 slaying of John F. Kennedy, Ewers was commissioned to cast a bronze portrait of the former US president. This was set in a granite boulder and sited in the tranquil Japanese Gardens within Treasury Gardens. The superintendent of Parks & Gardens and the city architect were responsible for site design and installation, which included remodelling the ornamental lake and building a bridge to the island where the monument would form the centrepiece. A paved area and a bronze flagpole were added, with the intention of reflecting Kennedy's final resting place at Arlington.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was something of a new breed of US politician. Born to a wealthy family with political pedigree, he was the youngest man ever elected president, and he brought vibrancy to government that gave hope to many Americans. Kennedy was sworn in as president in January 1961, calling his campaign `The New Frontier'. Besides averting a nuclear war with the Soviets over the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, his administration spearheaded many progressive causes. While riding in an open-top limousine through the streets of Dallas, Texas, Kennedy was shot and killed by Lee Harvey Oswald on 22 November 1963.
This memorial is particularly significant for being a rare monument to an American. Memorials to prominent British figures attest to Australia's links with the British Empire, but ours is not a society to commemorate with such solemnity its alliances with the US. One of the memorial's plaques reads: `This memorial signifies the grateful recognition / by the citizens of this city for the service / given by John F. Kennedy / as President of the United States of America / 1961'1963'.","object_type":"Memorial","art_date":"1965","inscription":"JOHN F KENNEDY / 1917 - 1963 / THIS MEMORIAL WAS UNVEILED / BY THE RIGHT HONOURABLE / THE LORD MAYOR OF MELBOURNE, / COUNCILLOR E LEO CURTIS, JP / ON 25TH MARCH 1965 / THIS MEMORIAL SIGNIFIES THE GRATEFUL REGOGNITION / BY THE CITIZENS OF THIS CITY FOR THE SERVICE / GIVEN BY JOHN F. KENNEDY / AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA / 1961 - 1963","longitude":"-37.81365974522775","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"EWERS, Raymond B.","property":"Treasury Gardens","classification":"Memorials","title":"John F. Kennedy Memorial"},{"_id":88,"geo_point_2d":"-37.81941335748653, 144.9601986635865","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.9601986635865, -37.81941335748653], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":"Flinders Street between Market Street and William Street","location":"Flinders Street between Market Street and William Street approximately 28m SW of Immigration Museum, 400-424 Flinders Street, Melbourne, 3000","latitude":"144.9601986635865","asset_id":"1088175","history":"
","owner_type":"Owned","description":"This is one of few remaining public artworks commissioned for the Another View walking trail. Here a silhouetted figure and horseshoes commemorate the race won by an Aboriginal schoolboy, Peter, in 1876. The plaque was intentionally placed in contrast to the John Batman plaque, which commemorates his landing in 1835.","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"1994","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.81941335748653","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":null,"makers":"Thomas, Ray","property":null,"classification":"Sculpture","title":"Another View Site 8"},{"_id":89,"geo_point_2d":"-37.814306776660544, 144.9784994254141","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.9784994254141, -37.814306776660544], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Fitzroy Gardens approximately 69m SE of Toilet Fitzroy Gardens, 2 Lansdowne Street, East Melbourne, 3002","latitude":"144.9784994254141","asset_id":"1086739","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Cast bronze sculpture of Diana, bare breasted, dressed in a skirt, with her proper left arm raised whilst her proper right arm holds a bow. She is flanked by two hound dogs. One dog stands on his back legs and rests his chin against Diana's left hip. The other dog walks by her right side. The group is on a self-base which is mounted on a rough cut granite plinth, which sits on a rectangular concrete base and acts as an island in the middle of the lily pond in which it is placed.
William Leslie Bowles joined the Australian War Memorial as a sculptor and model maker in 1924. After leaving the memorial he took on public commissions. In 1935, three of Bowles' designs were selected to replace the existing and much deteriorated statuary in Fitzroy Gardens. His Diana and the Hounds replaced a cement statue copied from the Roman Diana, Goddess of Mood and Contemplation, held in the Vatican.
The mould was completed in 1939 but the onset of the Second World War temporarily delayed casting by A.B. Brunton in London. The statue was in fact the last to be cast in Britain before the war and had to run the gauntlet of German U-Boats on its return to Australia. It was erected in a specially designed lily pond in front of the conservatory and was unveiled by Lord Mayor, Councillor Coles on the 4th of September, 1940.
","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"1940","inscription":"W. Leslie Bowles 1940 / DIANA AND THE HOUNDS / BY WILLIAM LESLIE BOWLES / UNVEILED BY THE LORD MAYOR, COUNCILLOR COLES / ON 4TH SEPTEMBER, 1940.","longitude":"-37.814306776660544","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":"Arts & Culture Branch","makers":"BOWLES, William Leslie","property":"Fitzroy Gardens","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Diana and the Hounds"},{"_id":90,"geo_point_2d":"-37.815324425802274, 144.94707294769273","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.94707294769273, -37.815324425802274], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Etihad Stadium approximately 80m South of Peppers Docklands Hotel, 681 La Trobe Street, Docklands, 3008","latitude":"144.94707294769273","asset_id":"1561981","history":null,"owner_type":"Not Owned","description":"Melbourne sculptor Simon Perry, best known for his very popular `Public Purse' in the Bourke Street Mall, practices a Pop Art sensibility and explores the forces that shape our experience of public places. A giant green thread playfully loops and knots its way through the stadium concourse, an unexpected player on the field. Constructed in painted and polished steel with internal lighting, the sculpture has itself become a popular playground.","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"1999","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.815324425802274","company":"VicUrban","service_manager":null,"makers":"Simon Perry","property":"Etihad Stadium","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Threaded Field"},{"_id":91,"geo_point_2d":"-37.81502994395132, 144.97493152226934","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.97493152226934, -37.81502994395132], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Treasury Gardens approximately 33m NE of Taxi Services Commission, Lower Ground & Level 24-25, 1 Spring Street, Melbourne, 3000","latitude":"144.97493152226934","asset_id":"1091484","history":null,"owner_type":"Owned","description":"Stone hitching post set in concrete.
In the Treasury Gardens opposite Flinders Lane is an octagonal stone mounted on an octagonal base. On top of the stone is a metal ring. The inscription on the plaque informs us that this hitching post was originally set in the west kerb of Spring Street outside number 85 and is typical of hitching posts located in the streets of early Melbourne prior to 1900. The post was removed to the present site on the 26th February, 1971.
","object_type":"Hitching Post","art_date":"c1890","inscription":"Plaque: ''''This hitching post was originally set in the west kerb of Spring Street outside No. 85, and is typical of hitching posts located in the streets of Early Melbourne prior to 1900. This post was relocated to this site on 26-1-71.''''","longitude":"-37.81502994395132","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":null,"makers":null,"property":"Treasury Gardens","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Horse Hitching Post"},{"_id":92,"geo_point_2d":"-37.8186665820053, 144.97410019862608","geo_shape":"{\"coordinates\": [144.97410019862608, -37.8186665820053], \"type\": \"Point\"}","road_segment":null,"location":"Birrarung Marr","latitude":"144.97410019862608","asset_id":"1517305","history":"
","owner_type":null,"description":"The 39 free standing upturned bells range in size from a hand bell that stands 1.8m high and 2.8m in diameter and weighs up to 3.5 tonnes.
Designed by Neil McLachlan and Anton Hasell in collaboration with Swaney Draper Architects, the installation comprises 39 upturned bells of differing sizes, mounted on poles ranging from two to six metres high. The size of each bell determines its pitch, and collectively the pitch ranges over four octaves.
Most of the bells are harmonic and very pure in their tone; seven are polytonal, so able to play more than one pitch with a single hammer strike. Unlike most modern Western instruments, the bells are `just tuned', a system that follows a harmonic series in nature and means the bells emit a unique sound; music created for the bells must be composed with this system in mind.
Seven Australian composers were commissioned to create pieces of four to five minutes for the launch of the bells. Computer-controlled hammers strike the bells to the tune of the programmed compositions. In 2008, the City of Melbourne launched a website (www.federationbells.com.au) to allow members of the public to compose their own pieces for the bells. By walking among the bells or listening to them from up to 100 metres away, visitors have different aural experiences of the music. Eminent scientist and Australian of the Year (2000) Sir Gustav Nossal launched the Federation Bells installation on 26 January 2002. In 2005, the poles underwent a structural upgrade to ensure the longevity of the work.","object_type":"Sculpture","art_date":"2002","inscription":null,"longitude":"-37.8186665820053","company":"City of Melbourne","service_manager":null,"makers":"McLachlan, Neil; Hasell, Anton","property":"Birrarung Marr","classification":"Sculpture","title":"Federation Bells"},{"_id":93,"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":94,"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":95,"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":96,"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":97,"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":98,"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":99,"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.'
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