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Artist - Frank Hinder
Title - Untitled (Frank Hinder, 1963)
Medium - Glass mosaic ceiling.
Location - Civic
Owned and maintained by - The Canberra Centre
Commissioned
- 1963
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Untitled (Frank Hinder, 1963) This work by the renowned modernist artist Frank Hinder is one of the most subtle artworks in the city centre. Created as part of the building, the vaulted tiled ceiling is a remarkable blend of form, tone and colour. Monaro Mall established this precinct as a hub of retail activity in Civic from the early 1960s.
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Artist - Gerald and Margo Lewers
Title - Untitled (Gerald and Margo Lewers, 1965)
Medium - Four piece wall sculpture, cast copper
Location - Civic
Owned and maintained by - The Reserve Bank of Australia
Commissioned
- 1965
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Untitled (Gerald and Margo Lewers, 1965) The original maquette for this work was designed and fabricated by Gerald Lewers, and developed and executed by Margo Lewers after his death. This 17 metre long sculpture includes a fulcrum and two weights symbolizing the Reserve Bank’s role in balancing the economy.
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Artist - Jean-Pierre Rives
Title - Untitled (Jean-Pierre Rives, 2008)
Medium - Painted steel
Location - Civic
Owned and maintained by - artsACT
Acquired
- 2008
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Untitled (Jean-Pierre Rives, 2008) This untitled abstract artwork was donated to the ACT Public Art Collection by Leighton Properties.
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Artist - S Maritti
Title - Untitled (S Maritti, 1967)
Medium - Copper coated concrete (later painted)
Location - Civic
Owned and maintained by - Commonwealth Bank
Commissioned
- 1967
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Untitled (S Maritti, 1967) This work is integrated with the building façade and was designed to complement the Commonwealth Bank building’s architecture.
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Artist - Warren Langley
Title - Vessel of (Horti)cultural Plenty
Medium - Galvanised steel, polycarbonate, LED lights
Location - Civic
Owned and maintained by - artsACT
Commissioned
- 2009
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Vessel of (Horti)cultural Plenty The Vessel holds abstracted flowers that are illuminated at night and move with the breeze.
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Artist - Andrew Townsend
Title - We Are Fishes
Medium - Galvanised steel, cast black patinated aluminium, hollow form copper sheet with green patination
Location - Tuggeranong
Owned and maintained by - artsACT
Commissioned
- 1997
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We Are Fishes A pair of wind vanes in the shape of fish appear to swim through the air between the Tuggeranong Arts Centre and Lake Tuggeranong. One fish is cast black patinated aluminium, the other hollow form copper sheet with green patination. The work reflects life in the adjacent lake and plays on the nautical architecture of the Arts Centre building.
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Artist - Marcus Tatton, Futago and Chris Viney
Title - wide brown land
Medium - Corten Steel
Location - South Canberra
Owned and maintained by - artsACT
Commissioned
- 2010
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wide brown land This artwork celebrates Dorothea Mackellar's popular Australian poem My Country which was written in 1908. The sculptural forms that make up the work are inspired by the cursive style of Mackellar's own hand-writing. The artwork frames a wide vista that stretches across the National Arboretum Canberra to the hills that mark Canberra's western and southern boundaries.
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Artist - Ernst Fries
Title - Wind Sculpture
Medium - Stainless steel and painted steel
Location - Civic
Owned and maintained by - artsACT
Commissioned
- 1981
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Wind Sculpture This work is a fine example of a style of kinetic sculpture popular through the late 1970’s. It marks the entry to 'the Boulevard' development which was anticipated to be an international retail precinct for Canberra. Whilst the Boulevard never fulfilled this promise, the first floor open air plaza is a fascinating example of 1970’s planning for public space.
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Artist - Peter Blizzard
Title - Winds of Light
Medium - Steel, brass, aluminium
Location - Belconnen
Owned and maintained by - artsACT
Commissioned
- 2011
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Winds of Light This sculpture is the last public artwork of the well known artist, Peter Blizzard. His practice was unique in his use of contrasting materials as an ongoing investigation into the relationship of nature to the human spirit. He believed that we should venerate and respect what we have. This work is the artist’s response to the effect that grandeur, colour, light, texture and form within the natural landscape have on the wellbeing of the human spirit.
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Artist - Koichi Ishino
Title - Windstone - A Trail of a Cloud
Medium - Stainless steel, granite
Location - Civic
Owned and maintained by - artsACT
Commissioned
- 2010
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Windstone - A Trail of a Cloud This sculpture combines materials that have very different visual and tactile qualities. The solidity and surface detail of natural granite is a sharp contrast to the ethereal, mirrored surface of stainless steel. Windstone brings a sensation of the material and immaterial together in one object. The artist's work has been described as an exploration of the experience of land and sky, and the concious and unconcious.
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