List of public art in the City of Sydney

Richard Tipping "Artwork" (2004)

Public art in the City of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia includes a wide range of works across a range of genres and for a range of purposes or combination of purposes. Some are purely artistic, some are commemorative, some are both. Some are monuments or memorials; some are also fountains and some are site-specific and in some buildings, such as Australia Square and Grosvenor Place by Harry Seidler and Aurora Place by Renzo Piano, the art is a component of the architect's intentions. The City of Sydney has a Public Art Policy.^[1] Conservation work is carried on from time to time to maintain the works.^[2]

The materials used vary widely but include traditional marble (such as in Touchstone) and bronze (such as in the Archibald Fountain) as well as steel (such as in New Constellation and I Stay), concrete (such as in I Wish and Barrel Roll) and newer materials like aluminium (such as in Vine and Morpho). In the 21st century, kinetic, musical, and conceptual works began to appear.

Notable sculptors from around the world are represented in works on public display in Sydney. For example, Bertram Mackennal and Bronwyn Oliver were Australian; Gilbert Bayes and Henry Moore were British; François-Léon Sicard and Henri Alfred Jacquemart were French; Alexander Calder and Jenny Holzer are American; Kan Yasuda and Jun'ya Ishigami are Japanese.

Some memorials (such as the Levy Drinking Fountain) are in the form of a fountain; others (such as William Dalley) are in the form of a portrait statue. The Lawson Memorial commemorates a writer; John Christie Wright Memorial Fountain commemorates a sculptor; the Dobell Memorial commemorates a painter, the Morshead Fountain commemorates a soldier; Il Porcellino commemorates surgeons. As well as memorials to individuals or groups, matters of importance to Sydney such as navigation and the environment are also commemorated. The bronze portraits of James Cook, Arthur Phillip and Matthew Flinders also pay tribute to their skills in exploration and navigation.

Recurring themes include flora, children and classical or abstract allusion. Local flora is represented by sculptures such as Veil of Trees, Edge of the Trees and Into the Trees II. Busby's Bore takes water as its subject; indigenous fauna is interpreted in Dancing Brolgas and domesticated animals in Trim, Islay and Mare and Foal. The lives and importance of children are acknowledged in the Tank Stream Fountain, Windlines, Youngsters and the memorial to Hans Christian Andersen. Some (such as The Offerings of Peace and The Offerings of War) employ classical references to convey an abstract meaning; others (such as Research) use abstracted forms to convey an idea.

List of works

The list below is of works whose purpose is at least partly artistic. Excluded from the article's scope are objects and installations that are primarily water features, such as the ones in Martin Place and in front of the Sydney Opera House; purely memorial objects such as the obelisk of botanist Allan Cunningham in the Royal Botanic Garden; the many works of public art in greater Sydney and its surrounding suburbs; and temporary works such as ones displayed for sale.

Nineteenth century

Commissions for sculpture came from three main sources: the Church, the State and the private sponsor.^[3] In the later part of the nineteenth century, there was "an active artistic relationship between Australia and Britain".^[4]

Year	Image	Title	Artist/s	Location	Notes and references
1842		Governor Bourke		Outside the State Library of New South Wales 33°51′58″S 151°12′46″E / 33.8660°S 151.2128°E	Statue of Governor Richard Bourke, in his Lieutenant-General's uniform, unveiled on 11 April 1842 after a grand ceremonial procession. For the event, the banks and "nearly all the mercantile institutions and respectable shops were closed".[5] Conrad Martens did a painting in oils of the statue and Sydney Harbour in 1842. The painting is now in the collections of the Mitchell Library.[6]
1850		Our Lady and the child Jesus	Dom Eugene Gourbeillon (OSB)	St Mary's Cathedral 33°52′15″S 151°12′48″E / 33.870752°S 151.213243°E	The sculptor was also a Benedictine priest stationed in Sydney. The statue was removed in 1912 and replaced in 2008.[7][8]
1866		Albert the Good	William Theed	Macquarie Street 33°52′11″S 151°12′44″E / 33.8697°S 151.2121°E	Statue of Prince Albert, represented wearing the full robes and insignia of a Knight of the Garter and holding a field-marshall's baton. Originally placed in Hyde Park.[9] He is positioned looking across Macquarie Street at Boehm's statue of his Queen.
1870		Choragic Monument	Walter McGill	Royal Botanic Garden 33°51′50″S 151°13′05″E / 33.863930°S 151.218075°E	A smaller copy in Sydney sandstone of the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates in Athens, built in 335 or 334 BC.[10] Originally in the garden of Sir James Martin (1820-1886), it was moved to the Royal Botanic Garden in 1943.
1878		Captain Cook	Thomas Woolner	Hyde Park South, 120 Elizabeth Street 33°52′27″S 151°12′43″E / 33.874178°S 151.211915°E	A monument to the celebrated explorer James Cook.[11][12][13] Woolner wrote: "My idea is, ... to make an animated figure filled with wonder and delight, in the moment of discovering a new country; smitten by the sun, he would always stand a shining welcome to all comers to the fair Australian land."[14]
1879		Huntsman and Dogs	Henri Alfred Jacquemart	Royal Botanic Garden 33°51′51″S 151°12′51″E / 33.864090°S 151.214153°E	One of two copies of an original which stood near the Garden Palace when it burned down in 1882. The copies were cast in imitation bronze.[15][16]
		Venus Fountain		Royal Botanic Garden 33°51′50″S 151°13′03″E / 33.863967°S 151.217426°E	The original was erected prior to 1880. In 1990 it was removed and a bronze cast made of it; the replacement was erected in the same location in 1994.[17]
1883		Thomas Sutcliffe Mort	Pierce Connolly	Macquarie Place 33°51′49″S 151°12′36″E / 33.863483°S 151.209924°E	Monument to Australian industrialist Thomas Sutcliffe Mort,[18] who was responsible among other things, for Mort's Dock at Balmain.[19]
		La Ballarina	Charles Francis Summers	Royal Botanic Garden 33°51′51″S 151°13′07″E / 33.8642°S 151.2185°E	A copy of a famous work by Antonio Canova, one of eight brought from Italy in 1883 and put back in the gardens in 2009 after vandalisation and restoration by master mason, Jacek Luszcyk.[20][21] The restored statue was unveiled in July 2009.[22]
		Autumn and Winter		Royal Botanic Garden	Two of four neoclassical sculptures representing The Four Seasons: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter. Both "Spring" and "Summer" had been decapitated and Summer's head had been lost. As well, various pieces were missing. The works were restored and re-placed in the Garden.[21]
		Boy removing thorn	Copy of ancient original	Royal Botanic Garden 33°51′49″S 151°13′11″E / 33.863593°S 151.219607°E	One of many sculptural variants in marble and bronze of the Greco-Roman Boy with Thorn.[10]
1887		The Boxers	Charles Francis Summers (Copy of a work by Antonio Canova)	Royal Botanic Garden	The subject is two famous boxers of 400 BC. The original Canova is in the Vatican Museums.[16] Most of the classic marble figures in the Botanic Garden, including "The Boxers" were copied from plaster models made by Charles Francis Summers (son and pupil of Charles Summers). Summers, whose "forte is the ideal", was known for copies from the antique. During a residence in Rome of 30 years he had been granted access by the Vatican authorities, and possessed "some exceedingly valuable casts."[23] The colony at the time, "unfortunately", wrote a contemporary critic, had no example of Canova's grace. Comparing "The Boxers" unfavourably with another classical copy ("The Quoit-thrower") he said that "The 'Boxers" are "two actors from the Théâtre Français in an attitude with their clothes off." Nonetheless, he concluded that "We must not deny their excellence, however, in their own particular style."[24]
1888		Victoria	Joseph Edgar Boehm	Queen's Square 33°52′11″S 151°12′43″E / 33.869653°S 151.211831°E	Unveiled in the Centennial year of 1888, Boehm's monument to Queen Victoria can be seen in position near Hyde Park in early 20th century photographs.[25] The Queen, dressed in brocade, wears the crown, her left hand holds the orb and cross, her right hand points the sceptre to the earth.[26]
1889		Levy Drinking Fountain	Charles Bell Birch	Royal Botanic Garden 33°51′59″S 151°13′02″E / 33.866519°S 151.217169°E	One of the few remaining large public drinking fountains in Sydney.[27] A young girl stands with reeds, herons and frogs. Art Nouveau in style and "...is an important example of aestheticism in Sydney".[28] It is made from polished red and white granite; the figure is bronze.[29] Gifted to the memory of Lewis Wolfe Levy (1815–1885) by his family.
1890s		Australian explorers	Various	Lands Department building, Bridge Street facade 33°51′49″S 151°12′37″E / 33.863605°S 151.210183°E	The building's architect – James Barnet – placed naturalistic statues in its niches. On the Bridge Street elevation are Australian explorers, to "convey the story of the opening up of the land in the colony".[30] Among them is a representation of John Oxley, by W.P. MacIntosh, which was the last statue to be installed in its niche.[31] Also featured on this elevation are Ludwig Leichhardt, Thomas Mitchell, Robert O'Hara Burke and William Hovell (by MacIntosh); and George Bass (by James White).
1890		John Dunmore Lang	Giovanni Fontana	Wynyard Park 33°51′55″S 151°12′22″E / 33.865345°S 151.206045°E	Bronze memorial to John Dunmore Lang, founder of the Presbyterian Church in Australia, unveiled 26 January 1891 by his widow in the presence of Sir John Robertson, Sir Henry Parkes and the Earl of Jersey, among many others.[32][33][34]
1891		Mare and Foal	Arthur le Duc	Royal Botanic Garden 33°51′50″S 151°13′08″E / 33.863751°S 151.218882°E	Purchased by the Art Gallery of New South Wales and donated to the Garden in 1958.[35]
c1893		Allan Cunningham	Tomaso Sani	Lands Building	Portrait of botanist Allan Cunningham, depicted with his hand resting on a column of waratahs. One of a series of sandstone sculptures in the niches of the facades of Lands Building. They are all of a uniform size – 200 cm x 60 x 50 (9 ft 6 ins tall). They were cleaned and refurbished in 1979/80 by the Public Works Department.[36]
1897		William Bede Dalley	James White	Hyde Park	Bronze over life-size likeness of William Bede Dalley, whose unveiling on Easter Tuesday 1897 was reportedly attended by 10,000 people.[37][38] A critic wrote that the sculptor "was cruelly handicapped by the stumpy figure and square-jawed face of his subject (however beloved and talented – and he was both!) ..."[26]
		The Governor Phillip Fountain and statue	Achille Simonetti	Royal Botanic Garden 33°51′53″S 151°12′48″E / 33.864851°S 151.213370°E	Full length statue of the first governor of New South Wales atop a marble column around which are various figures both allegorical (e.g. Justice, Commerce) and mythical (e.g. Neptune, Cyclops). Commissioned by State Premier Henry Parkes during the 1888 Centennial celebrations and unveiled by Lord Hampden for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.[39]
1898		Guardian Genius of the City	William Priestly MacIntosh	Queen Victoria Building (George Street) 33°52′18″S 151°12′25″E / 33.871737°S 151.206830°E	One of a pair of architectural sculptures for the new Queen Victoria Markets building. Tenders were called and MacIntosh was awarded the commission.[40]
1899		Guardian Genius of Civilisation	William Priestly MacIntosh	Queen Victoria Building (York Street) 33°52′18″S 151°12′24″E / 33.871739°S 151.206559°E	One of a pair of architectural sculptures for the new Queen Victoria Markets building. Tenders were called and MacIntosh was awarded the commission.[40]
		Lady of Commerce	James White	56 Pitt Street	Bronze sculpture 15 feet 6 inches in height outside the Royal Exchange Building, formerly on the roof of the now demolished stock exchange building.[41][42] The sculpture was regarded as marking "a new development in the history of Sculptural art in Australia" and was made "in the manner of" the statue of "Liberty" in New York. "Commerce is represented by an ideal female figure standing upon the globe on either side of which are placed emblems of the staple industries of the State — sheaves of wheat, miners' tools, ram's head and skin, and an anchor — and holding in her left hand the Caduceus of Mercury, the accepted symbol of commerce, and in her right, a branch of laurel."[43]

Twentieth century

By the twentieth century, the "basic traditional concepts of sculpture were challenged and radically undermined" giving rise to modern sculpture.^[3]

Year	Image	Title	Artist/s	Location	Notes and references
1904		John Robertson	designed by John Horbury Hunt, executed by James White	The Domain 33°52′04″S 151°12′58″E / 33.867772°S 151.216249°E	The bronze life-sized statue in memory of five-times Premier Robertson was funded by public subscription and unveiled on 24 September 1904.[44][10] Them pedestal is of trachyte with a rock faced shaft and "classical leaf cornice capping".[45] It bears the inscription "Sir John Robertson, K.C.M.G. Patriot, Statesman, Prime Minister of New South Wales 1817–1891."[46]
1905		Robert Burns	Frederick Pomeroy	The Domain 33°52′11″S 151°12′53″E / 33.869629°S 151.214844°E	Monument to Scottish poet Robert Burns.[47] A committee representing the Scottish associations in the State, and presided by Sir Normand MacLaurin, collected funds to erect a memorial in honour of the poet.[48] Burns anniversary services were held near the statue.[49]
		Sirius Anchor	Unknown	Macquarie Place Park 33°51′47″S 151°12′37″E / 33.862979°S 151.210208°E	Iron anchor from the Sirius, flagship of the First Fleet, recovered off Norfolk Island.[50] An artefact functioning as an art work.
1907		Robert Brough Monument		Sydney Hospital 33°52′05″S 151°12′46″E / 33.867988°S 151.212793°E	A painted cast-iron three-tiered fountain in memory of actor Robert Brough.[51][52][53] A group of brolgas is surmounted by black swans with crimson beaks. The sculpture was cast in the Colebrookdale Factory in England.[28][54]
1908		Statue of Queen Victoria	John Hughes	Queen Victoria Building 33°52′22″S 151°12′25″E / 33.872718°S 151.206851°E	Made and installed originally in Ireland, the statue was moved to Sydney and inaugurated on 20 December 1987 by Queen Elizabeth II[55]
1912		Lion and Lioness		Royal Botanic Garden, outside Lion Gate Lodge	A pair of bronze lions donated to the Botanic Garden in 1912 from the estate of Edward Sanders. Restored in 1989 and returned in 1990. Popular with children for generations.[56]
1922		Edward VII	Thomas Brock	Corner of Macquarie and Bridge Streets 33°51′48″S 151°12′47″E / 33.863243°S 151.213162°E	Bronze equestrian memorial statue on sandstone plinth. Funded by public subscription, the City of Sydney, and the State Government, it was unveiled on Empire Day,12 years after the King's death.[57]
1923		The Offerings of Peace	Gilbert Bayes	Art Gallery of New South Wales 33°52′07″S 151°13′00″E / 33.868733°S 151.216766°E	Companion piece to Offerings of War outside the Gallery.[58] The models for the works are the Elgin Marbles, and the rider carrys Greek theatre masks of Tragedy and Comedy, representing "the arts" and "plenty".[59] The inscription on the base reads: The Real and Lasting Victories Are those of Peace and Not of War.
		The Offerings of War	Gilbert Bayes	Art Gallery of New South Wales 33°52′06″S 151°13′02″E / 33.868400°S 151.217137°E	Companion piece to Offerings of Peace outside the Gallery.[60] The rider holds a staff, a bundle of swords and broken spear shafts.[59] The inscription on the base reads: That our House may stand forever and that Justice and Mercy grow.
1924		The Satyr	Frank Lynch	Royal Botanic Garden 33°51′31″S 151°12′55″E / 33.8586°S 151.2153°E	Bronze cast of an original first exhibited in 1924, "...modelled from the artist’s brother, whose death inspired Kenneth Slessor to write Five Bells."[10] The sculpture was subsequently considered too pagan to be on public display. In storage until placed in the Royal Botanic Garden in 1977.[61][62]
1925		Matthew Flinders	William Robert Colton	Macquarie Street, outside the Mitchell Library 33°51′59″S 151°12′46″E / 33.866351°S 151.212660°E	Statue of Matthew Flinders, navigator who explored and charted the coast of Australia. In consequence of Sir Flinders Petrie's 1922 offer of his grandfather's papers to the first State in Australia to erect a statue in Matthew's honour, Flinders' papers are now part of the Mitchell Library collection.[63]
		Richard Johnson Obelisk	Burcham Clamp and Finch	Richard Johnson Square, Bligh Street 33°51′58″S 151°12′36″E / 33.866112°S 151.210006°E	Sandstone Gothic style tower with Celtic cross erected on the site of the first church erected in Australia, opened on 25 August 1793. Richard Johnson came with the First Fleet and was the first chaplain in the colony.[64][65]
1926		J.F. Archibald Memorial Fountain	François-Léon Sicard	Hyde Park 33°52′15″S 151°12′42″E / 33.870969°S 151.211766°E	Art Deco fountain installed as a commemoration of Australia engagements in WWI in France.[66] The central figure is Apollo; included among the other figures are Theseus and Diana. Not installed until 1932.
		Shakespeare Memorial	Bertram Mackennal	Shakespeare Place 33°51′57″S 151°12′49″E / 33.865897°S 151.213588°E (opposite entrance to the Mitchell Library)	Bronze memorial statue of William Shakespeare standing above representations of some characters from his tragedies (Romeo, Juliet, Othello, and Portia) and Falstaff from one of his comedies and two of his histories. Unveiled in 1926, repositioned in 1959.[67]
1928		Cardinal Moran	Bertram Mackennal	St Mary's Cathedral (south entrance) 33°52′18″S 151°12′47″E / 33.871785°S 151.213192°E	Statue of Patrick Francis Moran (the third Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney) was unveiled by Cardinal Cerretti before an estimated quarter of a million people.[68][69] Mackennal began work on this and its companion statue of Archbishop Kelly on his return to England from Australia in 1926.[70]
1929		Cenotaph	Bertram Mackennal	Martin Place 33°52′03″S 151°12′28″E / 33.867544°S 151.207781°E	Cenotaph commissioned to commemorate Australian soldiers and sailors killed in World War I.[70][71]
1931		Henry Lawson Memorial	George W. Lambert	The Domain 33°51′57″S 151°13′09″E / 33.865876°S 151.219292°E	Bronze memorial to writer Henry Lawson. Henry's son Jim was the model for his father's figure, and Conrad von Hagen posed as the swagman. Unveiled on 28 July 1931 by New South Wales Governor Sir Philip Game.[72]
		Recumbent Soldier (Unknown Soldier)	George W. Lambert, Arthur Murch	St Mary's Cathedral	Commissioned by the Roman Catholic Church for £1200. Modelled in plaster using Sten Snekker as the model and co-signed by Murch. Cast in bronze in London. Portrays a soldier in an accurately rendered uniform with a natural expression, in a style between realism and idealism.[73]
1933		Archbishop Kelly	Bertram Mackennal	St Mary's Cathedral, (south entrance) 33°52′18″S 151°12′48″E / 33.871778°S 151.213307°E	Mackennal's bronze statue of Archbishop Kelly is a pair with one of Cardinal Moran by the same sculptor outside St Mary's Cathedral.[74] Unveiled on 5 March 1933 in the presence of thousands of people and described as a "splendid life likeness".[75]
1934		Sacrifice	Rayner Hoff	ANZAC War Memorial (Hyde Park) 33°52′32″S 151°12′39″E / 33.875687°S 151.210888°E	Once described as "Sydney's most moving example of publicly visible sculpture".[76] The soldier is "surrounded by a circle of bronze paving symbolising flames".[29] He is supported by three women who represent his mother, his sister and his wife and child. Their heads are bowed and they are presented in the form of a column.[29] The bronze casting is described as "superb".[77]
1938		Eros	Paul Montford	Royal Botanic Garden 33°51′54″S 151°12′50″E / 33.864994°S 151.213926°E	Bronze fountain of "Eros" or "Cupid" in the Memorial Garden to Pioneers on the site of the Garden Palace dome.[61] The sculpture is in the middle of a pool of water which is part of the composition.[29]
1942		Portico Doors	Arthur Fleischmann	State Library Library of New South Wales 33°51′58″S 151°12′48″E / 33.866091°S 151.213291°E	One bronze door of two pairs that illustrate elements of Australian history at the entrance to the Mitchell library. Donated in memory of David Scott Mitchell, after whom the building is named, by Sir William Dixson, one of the other major benefactors to the library. Principal librarian William Ifould supported the idea of "panels illustrating scenes from the lives of Australian Aboriginal people".[78] The doors were first modelled in plaster by Wunderlich and the company returned them to the Library in 1973.[79]
1946		I Wish	Arthur Fleischmann	Royal Botanic Garden 33°51′56″S 151°13′04″E / 33.8656°S 151.2177°E	Bust and hands of a girl, formed of pink concrete and placed on a sandstone plinth engraved with the title of the work. Commissioned by Leo Buring.[10] It is located on the site of Sydney's first "Wishing Tree",[10] a Norfolk Island pine.
1952		Captain Arthur Phillip R.N.	Jean Hill	Museum of Sydney (forecourt) 33°51′49″S 151°12′41″E / 33.863635°S 151.211424°E	Bronze bust of Governor Phillip, originally in First Fleet Park, Circular Quay. Unveiled in present location in 2014 in commemoration of the 200th anniversary of Phillip's death.[80][81]
1956		Australia as a Federation of States	Gerald Lewers	York Street 33°52′15″S 151°12′23″E / 33.870871°S 151.206470°E	Sandstone relief on the facade the Commonwealth Bank building.[82][83][84]
1959		Research	Tom Bass	Moore Steps, (Circular Quay East) 33°51′48″S 151°12′35″E / 33.863411°S 151.209796°E	A tribute to industry and scientific research, commissioned by Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI).[85] It presents "symbolic figures representing aspects of science and technology looking to the heavens..." and has since been relocated from the company's former headquarters on Macquarie Street.[86]
1960		John Christie Wright Memorial Fountain	Gerald Lewers	Macquarie Place Park 33°51′48″S 151°12′35″E / 33.863411°S 151.209796°E	Curved copper bowl with overflowing water from single jet, erected in memory of sculptor John Christie Wright, who had been Art Instructor at the Teachers' College in Sydney University and Principal of the South Australian School of Arts and Crafts. He was killed in action in France in May 1917, during World War I.[87][88] Restored in 2012.[89]
		Amicus Certus	Tom Bass	Alfred Street, Sydney Cove 33°51′43″S 151°12′41″E / 33.861944°S 151.211338°E	The full text of the proverb is Amicus certus in re incerta cernitur, which translates from the Latin as "A true friend in uncertain times", and is the motto of AMP Limited. The sculpture is fixed on the AMP Centre.[90]
1961		El Alamein Fountain	Robert Woodward	Fitzroy Gardens, Kings Cross 33°52′22″S 151°13′30″E / 33.8729052882°S 151.2249990750°E	Commemorates the Australian involvement in the First and Second Battle of El Alamein. Rare commemoration of battle rather than individual participants. Award-winning and influential design.[91][92]
		FJ Walker Memorial Fountain	Gerard Hevekes	Hyde Park North 33°52′20″S 151°12′45″E / 33.872261°S 151.212450°E	Private monument in tribute to business leader Frederic Joseph Walker and "all those who pioneered primary industry in Australia". A fountain plus three sandstone figures depicting Water (represented as a fisherman); Fire (represented as a woman); and Earth (represented as a farmer).[93]
1962		Busby's Bore Fountain	John Byrom	Hyde Park North 33°52′14″S 151°12′40″E / 33.870453°S 151.211021°E	Commemorating Busby's Bore, "Sydney’s sole source of water until 1859".[94]
		Wall Enrichment	Bim Hilder	Reserve Bank, Martin Place	Copper and bronze work set high on marble wall. Hilder is quoted as saying it forms "an integrating and disintegrating galaxy, representative of the manner in which nations and communities come together, and separate".[95]
1963		P&O Fountain	Tom Bass	55 Hunter Street 33°51′59″S 151°12′37″E / 33.866377°S 151.210193°E	A wall-mounted sculpture that in 1963 was satirised on the cover of Oz magazine as a public urinal and "enjoys a kind of celebrity status as a landmark."[86] The sculptor defended the magazine, saying it was "fair comment".[96]
		AGC sculpture	Tom Bass	Deutsche Bank Place 33°52′01″S 151°12′42″E / 33.866828°S 151.211540°E	Moved from its original location and installed in its current one after restoration.[86]
1964		Free-Standing Sculpture	Margel Hinder	Martin Place 33°52′05″S 151°12′42″E / 33.868039°S 151.211731°E	Non-representational work c.5 metres high resulting from Hinder's winning competition entry in 1962. Technically difficult to instal and aesthetically difficult against the "distracting" effects of the white marble pillar on the building behind it.[97]
1966		The Morshead Fountain	Robert Woodward	Shakespeare Place 33°51′56″S 151°12′48″E / 33.865555°S 151.213399°E	Erected "in remembrance of Lieutenant General Sir Leslie Morshead KCB, CMC, DSO, ED and all who served with him 1914–1918 1939–1945."[98]
1967		Crossed Blades	Alexander Calder	Australia Square (below the Tower Building)	Commissioned by Harry Seidler, architect of the building outside which the sculpture is installed. An example of Seidler's way of relating architecture and sculpture.[99][100] During conservation treatment, it was discovered that "some of the original bolt heads have a C for Calder on them".[2]
1968 [1547]		Il Porcellino	Pietro Tacca	Sydney Hospital 33°52′04″S 151°12′45″E / 33.867898°S 151.212376°E	A popular memorial to Thomas and Piero Fiaschi, honorary surgeons at the hospital. The boar is a replica of Tacca's 1547 original Porcellino, located at the Loggia del Mercato Nuovo in Florence.[2][101]
1973		Salute to Five Bells	John Olsen	Sydney Opera House Concert hall	A mural in "tribute to poet Kenneth Slessor who died two years before it was completed".[102] The manuscript journal Olsen kept while working on the painting is in the National Library of Australia (MS 8015/2).[103]
1977		S	Charles Perry	MLC Centre	Yellow steel sculpture in curvilinear form that seems to vary in composition as the viewer walks around it.[104][105]
		Wrestling	Josef Albers	Wall overlooking MLC Centre plaza 33°52′04″S 151°12′34″E / 33.867854°S 151.209313°E	An op-art puzzle relief in aluminium high on a wall.[105]
1979		First Impressions	Bud Dumas	Rocks Square, The Rocks	"The Settlers", one part of a three-sided sculpture in Sydney sandstone representing people who established the new colony in Sydney. They other two sides show "The Soldier" and "The Convict". Commissioned by the Sydney Cove Redevelopment Authority and presented by the Fellowship of First Fleeters.[29]
		Dobell Memorial Sculpture	Herbert Flugelman	Spring Street 33°51′53″S 151°12′32″E / 33.864796°S 151.208866°E	Presented to the people of Sydney by the Sir William Dobell Art Foundation. Originally located in Martin Place; moved to present position in 1999. The work is affectionately known as the "Silver Shish Kebab"[106]
1980		Reclining Figure: Angles	Henry Moore	Art Gallery of New South Wales 33°52′06″S 151°13′02″E / 33.868206°S 151.217351°E	Bronze of a reclining woman, a subject and form commonly sculpted by Moore.[107]
		Bonds of Friendship	John Robinson		Memorial to the First Fleet symbolised by large burnished brass rings linked in a chain.[108]
1981		Tank Stream Fountain	Stephen Walker	Herald Square (near Circular Quay) 33°51′41″S 151°12′31″E / 33.861373°S 151.208557°E	Also known as the Children's Fountain, the work is dedicated to "all the children who have played around the Tank Stream". A series of separate linked pools, it uses both figurative and non-figurative forms, and includes "an array of Australian flora and fauna, such as frogs, snakes, goannas, echidnas, crabs, birds and tortoises [which] appear to be playing in the pools."[109]
1986		Mobius Sea	Richard Goodwin	The Domain 33°52′09″S 151°12′59″E / 33.869152°S 151.216287°E	Goodwin said he would describe his sculpture "as a cylindrical tower of white concrete panels, rather like a Tower of Babel, with a sea of figures spiralling towards the top. It is symbolic of the human struggle for survival; a sort of journey through life or a depiction of time, metaphorically."[110] The work is 500 x 450 cm.
1987		The Change	Michael Snape	Walsh Bay 33°51′25″S 151°12′13″E / 33.856856°S 151.203559°E	Blue plate steel shapes.[111] The artist is described as "iconoclastic and irreverent, treating sculpture with a lighthearted and improvisatory dash."[112]
		Islay	Justin Robson	Queen Victoria Building (Druitt and George Streets) 33°52′21″S 151°12′24″E / 33.872627°S 151.206584°E	A bronze of Queen Victoria's pet Skye terrier called Islay, modelled from a sketch done by the Queen in 1842.[113] The sculpture sits in a sandstone wishing well in which a stone from the battlements of Blarney Castle is embedded and the recorded voice of John Laws asks for donations which are given to the deaf and blind children of New South Wales.[114]
		Cones and Pillars	Frank Stella	Grosvenor Place	A three part wall mounted sculpture using oil paint on magnesium, a "dynamic and colourful presence" in the building's foyer. One of the collaborations between architect Harry Seidler and artists.[115]
		Bird Totem	Adrian Mauriks	National Bank Building Plaza George and Jamison Sreets 33°51′51″S 151°12′26″E / 33.864165°S 151.207087°E	Bronze. Commissioned by the AMP Society.[116] Unveiled 1988.
		Governor Bligh	Marc Clark	George and Argyle Streets, near Cadman's Cottage	Bronze sculpture representing Governor William Bligh. Unveiled 18 December 1987.[29] Clark is quoted as saying that he has "yet to find any material that gives me so much satisfaction as bronze."[88]
1988		Pioneer Women's Memorial	Alex Koloszy	Jessie Street Square, Loftus Street	The memorial to the pioneering women of Australia comprises two bronze statues. Located in the garden named after Jessie Street.[117] It shows a mother in realistic clothing with two children who are pointing eagerly.[29]
		Waiting	John Seward Johnson II	Australia Square	Life size realistic bronze of a person engaged in an everyday activity, typical of Johnson's work.[118]
		Dragon Wall	Ceramic artists from Guandong Province, China	Chinese Garden	A ceramic wall 4 metres high x 7 metres wide depicting two dancing dragons, playing with the "pearl of prosperity". Installed as part of the Australian Bicentenary celebrations.[29]
1990		Second World War Servicewomen Memorial	Dennis Adams	Jessie Street Gardens, Loftus Street	Statue in bronze of a uniformed woman standing in front of a sandstone wall featuring various insignia of military divisions in which women served in WWII. Dedicated to "the wartime servicewomen of New South Wales". The artist served in the AIF and the sculpture was unveiled by Rear Admiral Sir David Martin.[119][120]
		Lloyd Rees	Lawrence Beck	Outside the Sydney Town Hall	Bronze portrait bust of the artist Lloyd Rees (1895-1988). The inscription on the plaque set in a sandstone pedestal reads: "A City is the greatest work of art possible".[121]
1991		Almost Once	Brett Whiteley	The Domain 33°52′11″S 151°13′03″E / 33.869679°S 151.217549°E	Gift of the artist to the Art Gallery of New South Wales[122] Whiteley's work was said to be a tongue-in-cheek self-portrait: "inspired ordinariness grown out of control".[123]
1992		Willy Willy	Rodney Broad	Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place	Interpretation of a willy willy in the building's foyer. The inscription incised into the base reads: "His Excellency ARTHUR PHILLIP Esq, governor in Chief, landed in this Cove with the first Settlers of this country, the 24th Day of January, 1788." An example of Broad's "continued preference for bronze, and his concern with the great figurative tradition".[124] He acquired knowledge of casting in the bronze foundries of Italy.[125]
		The First Bush Block	Jan Senbergs	Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place	A work commissioned for the building. Created by Senbergs, an artist once described by Fred Williams as an "industrial surrealist".[126][127]
		Slit Drum		Royal Botanic Garden	A slit drum from Ambrym in Vanuatu, made from Intsia bijuga, presented by the Australian Friends of Vanuatu.
		Angels of Hospitality	Stephen Glassborow	Entrance to Sheraton-on-the Park Hotel, Elizabeth Street	A matched pair of bronze figure sculptures by an artist who "blends the real and the abstract" and "draws inspiration from Greco-Roman ruins and art deco forms as well as contemporary abstracts".[128]
		To Sail, To Stop	Ingrid Orfali	Sydney Square, near the Town Hall	A large bronze work designed to "represent both an anchor and a ship".[129] It commemorates the arrival of the First Fleet in Sydney Cove and also Viscount Sydney, after whom the city is named. The monument was unveiled by Queen Elizabeth II.
1993		Night Sea Crossing	Akio Makagawa	ChifleyTower	Central sculpture with two wall sculptures in white marble and stainless steel.[130]
1994-5?		The Overseer	Trevor Weekes	Governor Macquarie Tower, 1 Farrer Place	Bronze sculpture of Governor Macquarie in classical pose holding a book. The work is 8 metres (26 ft) tall and rises from an inlaid compass on the floor. Behind the sculpture is a stylised etched relief of Macquarie's lighthouse at South Head, designed by Francis Greenway.
1995		Edge of the Trees	Janet Laurence and Fiona Foley	Museum of Sydney (forecourt) 33°51′55″S 151°13′11″E / 33.865275°S 151.219674°E	A "forest" of trees comprising 29 pillars of wood, steel and sandstone to symbolise first contact between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people at the site.[131]
1996		Trim	John Cornwell	Mitchell Library (behind the sculpture of Flinders) 33°51′59″S 151°12′45″E / 33.866451°S 151.212587°E	The subject is Matthew Flinders' cat who as Flinders' pet during his voyage of 1801–1803, is notable for being the first cat to circumnavigate Australia.[132] The sculpture was erected by public subscription of cat-lovers.
1997		Sphinxes		Art Gallery of New South Wales (opposite the entrance) 33°52′06″S 151°13′00″E / 33.868313°S 151.216631°E	A pair of bronze sphinxes that were a gift from the Friends of the Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney.
1998		Governor Macquarie	John Dowie	The Mint Building, Macquarie Street 33°52′09″S 151°12′44″E / 33.869129°S 151.212331°E	Monumental bronze relocated to its current position in 2010.[133]
		Ben Chifley	Simeon Nelson	Chifley Square	Larger-than-life sculpture of former Prime Minister Ben Chifley, commissioned by the Sydney City Council for Chifley Square.[134][135]
		Dancing Brolgas	Terrance Plowright	Cockle Bay, Darling Harbour	Bronze fountain, one of many water features done by the artist.[136]
		Thai lion		Royal Botanic Garden	One of a pair of bronze lions ("Temple Dogs") in the Oriental Garden. Made in Thailand. Purchased in Annandale in 1977, donated by Friends of the Garden in 1998.[56]
1999		Palm	Bronwyn Oliver	Royal Botanic Garden	Copper sculpture depicting folded palm fronds. Installed near Phoenix reclinata palm in the garden.[137] Although the form and subject are from nature, Oliver says: "I am not ... remotely concerned with the observation of nature. I am not interested in structures in nature ... My ideas develop from the materials which I use ... and in what materials will do."[112]
		Magnolia	Bronwyn Oliver	Royal Botanic Garden	Near Farm Cove, the sculpture symbolises the forms of "elemental form washed up by the tide".[138][139]
		Australian Monument to the Great Irish Famine	Hossein and Angela Valamanesh	Hyde Park Barracks 33°52′12″S 151°12′46″E / 33.869872°S 151.212716°E	One of many memorials to the Great Famine. The names of 400 women who arrived as famine orphans are etched into the glass part of the memorial walls.[140]
		Veil of Trees	Janet Laurence and Jisuk Han	Royal Botanic Garden 33°51′55″S 151°13′11″E / 33.86515°S 151.219767°E	Designed as part of the Sydney Sculpture Walk program, it highlights the indigenous botanical history of the site.[141]
		Tank Stream – Into the head of the Cove	Lynne Roberts-Goodwin	Bridge Street and Tank Stream Way 33°51′49″S 151°12′31″E / 33.863659°S 151.208594°E	Artwork made of coloured glass modules and stainless steel lines set into the pavement in five place to mark the watercourse of the Tank Stream river. Etched quote from the diaries of Watkin Tench.[142]
		Annette Kellerman Mural	Wendy Sharpe	Cook and Phillip Park Aquatic and Fitness Centre 33°52′24″S 151°12′47″E / 33.873355°S 151.213091°E	Eight large acrylic paintings on vinyl ester panels depicting career highlights of "Australian mermaid" Annette Kellermann.[143]
		Golden Water Mouth	Lin Li	Chinatown, Corner of Hay and Sussex Streets 33°52′46″S 151°12′18″E / 33.879444°S 151.204936°E	A trunk of a yellow box eucalyptus, partially covered in gold leaf with water dripping from one of the upper branches. Installed at the entrance to Chinatown to "encourage harmony and serenity" and incorporating "the five natural elements – of wood, water, earth, fire and gold to harmonise the natural environment with the urban environment". The tree itself came from Condobolin - where early Chinese migrants to Australia came to the goldfields.[144]

Twenty-first century

The 20th century sculptor Tom Bass described himself as "a maker of totems – symbolic, widely recognisable forms that embody social, cultural and spiritual meanings for a community – for a city, a corporate client or humanity in general", however, noted Sydney art critic John McDonald critic has commented that "only nowadays our malaise is cultural illiteracy."^[86] In the twenty-first century, citizens and viewers of public art no longer share a common theology and world-view nor a "general grasp of symbolism and numerology". The absence of such a "shared cultural lexicon" means that sculptors have had to master more than form, medium, composition and technique to create meaning with their works.^[145]

Year	Image	Title	Artist/s	Location	Notes and references
2000		Passage	Anne Graham	Martin Place 33°52′04″S 151°12′43″E / 33.867877°S 151.211977°E	Three bronze fountains in the shape of large overflowing bowls, representing Georgian washrooms, in a house that is recalled by a floor plan inlaid on the pavement. Periodically a mist rises from vents along the inlay, evoking the house's walls. A site-specific work designed for the 2000 Olympics and also the 2001 Centenary of Federation.[146]
		Touchstone	Kan Yasuda	Aurora Place 33°51′55″S 151°12′43″E / 33.865200°S 151.212051°E	Two pieces of marble creating a typical work described as of "extremely meditative tranquility".[147]
		Three Wheeler	Tim Prentice	Aurora Place 33°51′54″S 151°12′43″E / 33.864983°S 151.211889°E	Kinetic air-wheel sculpture, described as "the perfect spatial counterpart" to the foyer space which is clad in terracotta tiles made by NBK Baukeramik of Germany to "anchor the building to the earth" and granite.[148][149][150]
		Fifth Street #14	Caio Fonseca	Aurora Place 33°51′54″S 151°12′43″E / 33.864983°S 151.211889°E	Painting commissioned for the foyer of the building and positioned against the distinctive terracotta ceramic tiles, similarly to the Prentice sculpture in the same space. Abstract composition.[148][151]
		Memory is Creation without End	Kimio Tsuchiya	Tarpeian Way 33°51′41″S 151°12′49″E / 33.861304°S 151.213683°E	Sandstone blocks from demolished buildings embedded into the earth in a spiral.[152]
		Folly for Mrs Macquarie	Fiona Hall	Royal Botanic Garden 33°51′35″S 151°13′00″E / 33.859648°S 151.216561°E	The idea came from a suggestion in a sketch book from the colony's early history that a folly was built for the Governor Macquarie's wife and contains various references including a component of the Macquarie coat of arms at the apex. It is sited across Farm Cove looking towards Mrs Macquarie's Chair.[153]
		Wuganmagulya (Farm Cove)	Brenda L. Croft	Royal Botanic Garden 33°51′48″S 151°13′08″E / 33.863291°S 151.219000°E	Insets into the pathway in terrazzo and stained concrete depicting figures from Sydney Aboriginal rock carvings.[154]
		Athena		Barrack Street 33°52′04″S 151°12′23″E / 33.867675°S 151.206414°E	Statue of Athena offered to the City of Sydney and unveiled during his visit to the city for the 2000 Olympic Games, by the Mayor of Athens, Mr Demetres Avramopoulos.[155]
		Simón Bolívar		Ibero-American Plaza, Surry Hills 33°53′06″S 151°12′25″E / 33.884978°S 151.207008°E	Simón Bolívar is one of series of portrait sculptures set in the Ibero-American Plaza to commemorate the contribution of the Spanish and Portuguese in Australia. Others in the series are Pedro Fernandez de Queirós, Henry the Navigator, José Gervasio Artegas, Eugenio de Santa Cruz y Espejo, Antonio Narino, Juana Azurduy de Padilla, Don Bernardo O'Higgins R., José Rizal, Miguel Grau Seminario, José Martí, Benito Juárez.[156]
2003		Southern Cross	Jon Hawley	State Library of New South Wales 33°51′58″S 151°12′48″E / 33.866210°S 151.213284°E	Sculpture representing the Southern Cross and mounted in the vestibule of the Mitchell wing of the Library. Made from "cobalt blue glass, stainless steel, clear perspex and fibre optic lights" and is "inspired by one of the earliest known images [of the constellation]" in the Florentian manuscript Lettera di Andrea Corsali (1516).[157]
		Wave Machine	James Angus	Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney Theatre Company, Walsh Bay 33°51′26″S 151°12′18″E / 33.857160°S 151.204919°E	Wall mounted kinetic work using acrylic paint, fibreglass, steel and electric motors.[158]
2004		Still Life with Stone and Car	Jimmie Durham	Centre of the roundabout where Pottinger Road meets Hickson Road at Pier 2/3 Walsh Bay 33°51′20″S 151°12′26″E / 33.855680°S 151.207208°E	A boulder from the New South Wales Central Coast with a painted face, resting where it had been ceremoniously dropped as part of the 2004 Sydney Biennale - on a 1999 Ford Festiva parked on the Sydney Opera House forecourt. Now permanently installed on a roundabout near the Harbour Bridge. It is a work that is "both a performance and an installation", and is "concerned with monuments and monumentality, but also with nature".[159]
		Artwork	Richard Tipping	Either side of roundabout where Hickson Road meets Pottinger Street at Walsh Bay 33°51′20″S 151°12′26″E / 33.855611°S 151.207327°E	Two bright yellow signs, in the style and material of a roadworks warning sign, "acting as book ends" to the roundabout featuring Still Life with Stone and Car (2004).[160] Both read "Artwork Ahead" on one side and "End Artwork" on the other. The sculptor has said: "Words are sonic magic ... I want to give sculptural weight to language."[161]
		Memory Lines	Ingrid Skirka	Darling Harbour	A memorial to working people "whose lives have been cut short in the pursuit of earning a living". The work was unveiled on the Workers International Day of Mourning.[162] A plaque in the ground nearby reads "A place to reflect upon dignity and respect of others at work"
2005		Vine	Bronwyn Oliver	Sydney Hilton Hotel 33°52′19″S 151°12′25″E / 33.871839°S 151.207082°E	A 16.5m column or "tendril" of welded aluminium strands, suspended from the ceiling in the hotel's foyer.[163] The artist said it was "intended to be like a vine or a tendril, reaching up to light," and "echo the meandering path of guests as they moved up" the hotel's tiers.[139]
		Hans Christian Andersen	Herman Wilhelm Bissen	Observatory Hill Park, Millers Point 33°51′34″S 151°12′18″E / 33.859364°S 151.204942°E	A replica of the sculpture done by Bissen in 1865. Commissioned by the Australian Danish community, presented to the City of Sydney for the bicentennial celebrations of Andersen's birth, unveiled by Frederik and Mary, Crown Prince and Princess of Denmark.[164]
2007		New Constellation	Robert Owen	MLC Centre 33°52′06″S 151°12′34″E / 33.868243°S 151.209563°E	Painted steel wall-mounted work, dedicated to Harry Seidler.[165]
		Interlude – Double Weave	Robert Owen	MLC Centre 33°52′06″S 151°12′34″E / 33.868243°S 151.209563°E	Painting on wood panels dedicated to Harry Seidler.[166]
2008		Pope John Paul the Great	Fiorenzo Bacci	St Mary's Cathedral 33°52′17″S 151°12′47″E / 33.871351°S 151.213145°E	Donated by the Italian-Australian community of Sydney.[167]
2009		Morpho	Alexander Knox	420 George Street 33°52′11″S 151°12′25″E / 33.869656°S 151.207044°E	The title comes from the name of a large tropical butterfly with iridescent wings. Aluminium scales are attached to wall-mounted panels and reflected light animates the surface.[168]
		Jay Flowers	Robert Parr	Darling Harbour 33°52′26″S 151°12′06″E / 33.873957°S 151.201635°E	Bright yellow steel sculpture in the form of a bunch of flowers.[169]
2010		St Mary of the Cross	Louis Laumen	St Mary's Cathedral 33°52′16″S 151°12′47″E / 33.871039°S 151.213151°E	Larger than life bronze of Mary MacKillop commissioned as a permanent tribute to Australia's first saint.[170]
		Aspire	Warren Langley	Underneath the Western Distributor, Ultimo 33°52′31″S 151°11′49″E / 33.875251°S 151.196926°E	In the form of trees, the sculpture is made of high density polyethylene and references community action to preserve local housing.[171]
		Into the Trees II	Linda Bowden	Walsh Bay 33°51′24″S 151°12′14″E / 33.856600°S 151.203904°E	A cluster of seven chunky four-sided metal shapes up to 3.5m high. Exhibited in Sculpture by the Sea 2010.[172]
		YuraBirong	Vic Simms	Royal Botanic Garden 33°51′53″S 151°13′08″E / 33.864665°S 151.218964°E	The stump of an old gum tree (Eucalyptus teretacornis) carved in the traditional aboriginal manner. The different patterns on the tree represent different tribal groups across New South Wales. "YuraBirong" means "people of this place".[173]
2011		Windlines, the Scout Compass of Discovery	Jennifer Turpin, Michaelie Crawford	Scout Place, Alfred Street 33°51′43″S 151°12′42″E / 33.861807°S 151.211660°E	Kinetic sculpture commemorating the 2008 centenary of Scouting in Australia. Funded by Dick and Pip Smith.[174]
		Day In, Day Out	James Angus	1 Bligh Street 33°51′52″S 151°12′38″E / 33.864549°S 151.210604°E	Brightly coloured ellipsoidal surfaces drawn from the shapes of the building. Chosen by the building's owners and architects.[175]
		Paradiegma Metaphysic	Paul Selwood	Royal Botanic Garden 33°51′52″S 151°13′13″E / 33.864575°S 151.220247°E	Flat sheets of metal painted pale green. Winner of the Balnaves Foundation Sculpture Prize in 2011.[176][177][178]
		Wurrungwuri	Chris Booth	Farm Cove 33°51′40″S 151°12′58″E / 33.861024°S 151.216050°E	The sculpture consists of two parts - a wave and a monolith. The former is constructed from 260 blocks of Sydney sandstone with a combined weight of 350 tonnes. The latter consists of "16,000 threaded quartz pebbles" and decorated with a pattern from the Sydney Shield,[179][180] an aboriginal object in the collection of the Australian Museum and made during the period of earliest European settlement.[181]
2012		Forgotten Songs	Michael Thomas Hill	Angel Place 33°52′02″S 51°12′28″E / 33.867263°S 51.207809°E	The sculpture commemorates the songs of fifty birds, such as the Spotted pardelote, once heard in central Sydney.[182]
		Halo	Jennifer Turpin and Michaelie Crawford	Chippendale Green, Central Park 33°53′09″S 151°12′02″E / 33.885749°S 151.200434°E	Kinetic sculpture whose form references the enormous circular brewing-vat support found in the nearby decommissioned Brewery Yard building. The off-centered encircling motion of the ring is a re-imagining of brewing alchemy and the effects of alcohol.[183]
		Youngsters	Caroline Rothwell	Barrack Street 33°52′03″S 151°12′25″E / 33.867631°S 151.207078°E	One of two figures in the tradition of monumental bronzes but in the size of a child wearing contemporary street clothes. The other child is doing a handstand.[184]
		Barrel Roll	Peter Lundberg	Royal Botanic Garden	Work named after the sculptor's experience surfing at Whale Beach and created by concrete cast from a large dug hole.[185] Winner of Sculpture by the Sea in 2012.[178]
2013		Governor Lachlan Macquarie	Terrance Plowright	Macquarie Street (Hyde Park North) 33°52′12″S 151°12′43″E / 33.869865°S 151.211878°E	Commemorative sculpture of Governor Lachlan Macquarie, "The Father of Australia", commissioned by the NSW Government and unveiled by Governor Marie Bashir.[186][187]
2014		I STAY (Ngaya ngalawa)	Jenny Holzer	8 Chifley Square 33°51′59″S 151°12′39″E / 33.866445°S 151.210899°E	A conceptual artwork using scrolling digital sign of LED diodes in blue, green and red.[188] Attached to a four-sided, 19-metre long, and diagonal steel column of the building's ground floor it features a series of "...songs, poems, stories and other texts by Aboriginal Australians and Torres Straight Islanders".[189]
2015		Yininmadyemi - Thou didst let fall	Tony Albert	Hyde Park 33°52′31″S 151°12′35″E / 33.875195°S 151.209777°E	A combination memorial and public art work "acknowledging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men and women who served in the nation’s military".[190][191]
2017		Cloud Arch	Junya Ishigami	George Street	Proposed work in white stainless steel intended to evoke the image of a cloud.[192]

See also

Street view of Tipping's "End Artwork" (2004)

• List of public art in Brisbane
• List of public art in the City of Westminster
• List of public art in the City of London

Further reading

• Booth, Chris, Edward Lucie-Smith, Gregory O'Brien and Ken Scarlett (2001) Sculpture in Europe, Australia & New Zealand, Auckland, N.Z. : Godwit. ISBN 1869620739
• Scarlett, Ken (1980) Australian sculptors, West Melbourne, Vic. : Nelson. ISBN 0170052923
• Sturgeon, Graeme (1978) The development of Australian sculpture, 1788–1975, London: Thames and Hudson, ISBN 050027116X
• Sturgeon, Graeme (1991) Contemporary Australian sculpture, Roseville, NSW: Craftsman House, ISBN 9768097108

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