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Courtyard Mural at the Australian National University
The School of Culture, History and Language was looking for an artist to design and install a public work in a garden courtyard at the HC Coombs building. The site is being developed to provide a memorial of the lives of people associated with the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific. The artwork’s objective is to enhance this tranquil public space and create a focal point for personal contemplation and reflection.
The artwork needed to consider the links with nature, the cycle of past and future life or explore more abstract concepts. The artwork should be an original response and accessible to the diverse community of the College.
Gound Mural
The ground mural artwork took into consideration the surrounding garden with its varied plant types, shapes and colours. The ground mural can be seen as a place of contemplation and reflection. In some ways as if looking into a pond with layers of movement within. Within the movement are different flowing shape layers with no start or finish. Some of the layer’s shapes are influenced by the surrounding bush like branches, roots or falling leaves.
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