Indigenous Land Art
Artist
Richard Goodwin, with Lynn Duncan, Dale Huddleston, Renee Smith and Jim Williams
Medium
Stone, timber, steel
District
North Canberra
Commissioned
2007
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The Indigenous Land Art is a work that consists of coloured timber towers and large stone installations. Passing motorist will see the stones scattered through the landscape, but when viewed from the sky above, the stones form a large bogong moth.
The work was commissioned as part of the Gungahlin Drive Extension Public Art Program. The objective of the program was to enhance the driving/riding experience and respond to the characteristics of the urban, natural and community environments.
There are four other works by Richard Goodwin that are installed along a 6km stretch of the roadway. They include:
* Rhizome (Barton Hwy and Gungahlin Dr Interchange), a sculptural marker designed to resemble indigenous grasses.
* Sound walls (AIS precinct) is an abstract interpretation of one of Walter Burley Griffin’s concrete tile designs.
* The coloured retaining walls (Aranda precinct) are concrete retaining walls designed to resemble the ACT’s geology and colours.
* The pedestrian bridge extension (Aranda Precinct) consists of a footbridge between Aranda and Black Mountain.
Richard Goodwin, with Lynn Duncan, Dale Huddleston, Renee Smith and Jim Williams
Indigenous Land Art, 2007
Stone, timber, steel
Gungahlin Drive, Bruce