Boulder belongs to a series of twelve sculptures created between 1966 and 1972. They were inspired by the landscape off the coast of Western Australia.

"My fascination was with the precarious balance of large forms perched on top of small ones, emphasising movement at the same time. The rough welding is intentional; the small pieces are incorporated to enliven the smooth surface of the simple shapes. I see these works as part of the landscape, the black colour contrasting with the grey green of the surrounding foliage. The represent a move away from earlier figuration.” - Inge King

Also by Inge King - Sentinel.

Location of artwork

•  Warrandyte Community Centre -  168 Yarra Street, Warrandyte VIC 3113
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About the artist

Inge King AM was pivotal in developing and diversifying abstract sculpture in Australia and worked actively until she was 98 years old.

Born in Berlin, King trained at the Berlin Academy from 1937 to 1938, the Royal Academy School in London in 1940, and the Glasgow School of Art, Scotland, from 1941 to 1943. She taught art in Glasgow and London from 1944 to 1949. After moving to Australia in 1950, she taught sculpture at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology from 1976 to 1987.

A powerful female voice in the male-dominated sphere of industrial sculpture, King was part of the Centre Five group whose mission it was to help foster greater public awareness of contemporary art while integrating large-scale sculpture with architecture.

King used industrial techniques and surface finishes to construct refined geometric sculptures. With sequential shapes and formalist progressions, her works give a sense of movement frozen in time. The artist considered sculpture ‘vision in motion’ and described her work as ‘drawing from a thousand different angles’.

The importance of the viewer’s perspective and their dynamic experience of each object and its environment was central to King’s practice.

Learn more about Inge King 

• Website - National Gallery of Victoria
• Website - Art Gallery of NSW
• Website - National Gallery of Australia
• Website - Australian Centre for Contemporary Art

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Manna Gum is inspired by the local eucalypt blossoms and marks the start of the Bolin Bolin Cultural Landscape Trail.

This trail passes through an area which was an important gathering place for the local Wurundjeri people due to its seasonal abundance of food. The Wurundjeri frequented the area when the billabongs were low, the eucalypts were flowering and they were able to collect nectar.

Location of artwork

•  Bulleen Park, Bulleen Road, Bulleen, VIC 3105
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About the artist

Simon Horsburgh is primarily a sculptor and installation artist. His prevailing artistic preoccupations are with elemental dynamics and the formal and poetic potential of ordinary things.

He has exhibited extensively in Melbourne, as well as interstate and abroad across the past fifteen years. He has been the recipient of an Australian Postgraduate Award as well as Arts Victoria International Cultural Exchange and New Work Grants. He has an MFA (Research) from the Victorian College of the Arts and held a studio residency at Gertrude Contemporary. 

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These pieces are part of a large series of sculptures which are vertical and totemic.

• Time in Autumn - 1993 to 1994
• Time in Spring - 1993 to 1994
• The Pendulum - 1993
• The Clef - 1994 to 1995

Time in Spring and Time in Autumn refer to subtle changes and ‘Happenings’ in nature by their contract as a pair. The Clef has a musical reference and The Pendulum suggests a certain functionalism.

There is no hidden symbolism in these sculptures. They are about particular sentiments alluded to their titles. Being derived from the idea of totems they are particular of these sentiments.

Location of artwork

•  Manningham Civic Centre grounds, 699 Doncaster Road, Doncaster, VIC 3108
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Welcome to Future Ahead where opportunities for insight and reflection are just overhead.

Inspired by the native Xerochrysum viscosum which has many names including the Golden Everlasting, Future Ahead is designed to be the heart of the new park on Hepburn Road.  

Bathing the park and its community in light, day and night. Future Ahead creates an expanding community crucible where connections and delightful discoveries abound and are an everyday occurrence.

Location of artwork

•  Hepburn Reserve, 9 Hepburn Road, Doncaster VIC 3108
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About the artist

Skunk Control create visually engaging works and immersive experiences that provide the public with a sense of wonderment and opportunities to make discoveries. 

Drawing on technology; design and art and their training in engineering, science and education, their works are interactive and impactful. As well as creating permanent public works, they also produce hands on community outreach programs that further engage the community in the artistry and technology that underpins their creative output.

Learn more about Skunk Control

• Website - Skunk Control
• Vimeo - Skunk Control
• Instagram - @skunkcontrol

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Particularly inspired by the panoramic vista of Ruffey Lake Park, EllipseCircleView embodies simple geometric forms to encourage contemplation of the immediate surrounds. 

Drawing from elements of conceptual sculpture, landscape painting, and anamorphic projection, this contemporary artwork comprises two polished stainless steel forms: a circular structure and an ellipse. 

These intertwining circular forms act as dynamic framing devices of the ever-changing views both up close and from a distance. Of particular interest, the ellipse is proportioned to appear circular at certain points as you circumnavigate the sculpture.
 

Location of artwork

•  Boulevarde Hill, Ruffey Lake Park Doncaster, VIC 3106
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About the artist

With a primary interest in perception and site, Natasha Johns-Messenger creates artworks that employ body-scaled architectural interventions and optical techniques to produce a framework responding directly to the site as a pictorial object. 

Johns-Messenger has exhibited internationally including across Asia, America, Europe and Australia, including a solo show at Heide Museum of Modern Art in 2016. Most recently she was awarded the Southern Way McClelland Commission where she will install a new sculpture along the Peninsula Link freeway.

Learn more about Natasha Johns-Messenger

• Website - Natasha Johns-Messenger
• Instagram - @natashajohnsmessenger

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Sidle is both an artwork and a shelter, and reflects its local surroundings whilst also asking questions about the global issue of recycling and waste.

The sculpture is made from decommissioned steel slides taken from parks in Manningham. 95 per cent of the structure is made from recycled or up-cycled materials.

Lifted up on extended legs, the slides have been rotated around a central point to create a shelter-like structure. As you walk around the sculpture, its twisted shape creates a sense of movement. It was always intended that the work would be viewed in the round - there is no front or back.

Location of artwork

•  Manningham Civic Centre -  699 Doncaster Road, Doncaster, VIC 3108
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About the artist

Bellemo and Cat is a Melbourne-based architect/artist partnership. The multi-disciplinary team was established in 1998 by Michael Bellemo and Cat Macleod. Based in Northcote, in inner urban Melbourne, the work of the firm varies widely in both scale - from domestic to the public, and location - from the urban to the rural.

The work of Bellemo and Cat is a wandering line of inquiry back and forth. From the construction of a house to the twisting of a sculpture. It enables them to carry the methods and results of experimentation in both the fields of architecture and sculpture back and forth like busy ants. Resulting in sculptural architectural works and pragmatic approaches to urban design.

Learn more about Bellemo and Cat 

• Website - Bellemo and Cat

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HELMET is a fusion of landscape and sculpture that engages with its site and context. 

It functions simultaneously as a gateway, faceted landform, sculpture, screen and viewing device. 

The work embraces both the cultural and natural heritage of the area by utilising the Kelly helmet icon, painted at Heidi, to direct attention to the adjacent historic River Gum and frame the environment of regionally significant Banksia Park.

Location of artwork

• Banksia Park, Manningham Road and Bridge Street, Bulleen, VIC 3105
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About the artists

Tanya Court is the Director of Tanya Court Projects, a multidisciplinary practice drawing on her landscape architecture and artistic skills. 

With significant professional practice experience specialising in civic and institutional landscapes, many of her design projects winning Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) awards. 

Tanya’s design work is highly regarded with over 15 significant projects designed, documented and constructed in and around Melbourne and Adelaide. 

Cassandra Chilton is a senior leader with over 18 years experience as a landscape architect with a diverse folio of public realm, open space, commercial and urban design works.

To all of these projects she has brought an interest in designing distinctive, sustainable and inviting spaces that elevate the everyday experiences of users and ultimately better connect people to their environments and to each other.

She was a Creative Director for the 2019 International AILA Festival of Landscape Architecture, has guest edited and written regularly for Landscape Australia and Architecture Australia, and is a member of the Melbourne art collective Hotham Street Ladies.

Learn more about Tanya Court and Cassandra Chilton 

• Website - Tanya Court
• Instagram - @the_plants_can_talk

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River Peel draws on the local heritage and surrounding landscape, imitating the Yarra River as it bends and turns through the area.

The sculpture also represents the peel of an apple to relate to the history of orcharding in the areas of Doncaster and Templestowe.

In 2001, River Peel was awarded the Joseph Reed Award for Urban Design.

Location of artwork

•  205 Fitzsimons Lane, Templestowe, VIC 3106
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About the artists

Bellemo and Cat is a Melbourne-based architect/artist partnership. The multi-disciplinary team was established in 1998 by Michael Bellemo and Cat Macleod. Based in Northcote, in inner urban Melbourne, the work of the firm varies widely in both scale - from domestic to the public, and location - from the urban to the rural.

The work of Bellemo and Cat is a wandering line of inquiry back and forth. From the construction of a house to the twisting of a sculpture. It enables them to carry the methods and results of experimentation in both the fields of architecture and sculpture back and forth like busy ants. Resulting in sculptural architectural works and pragmatic approaches to urban design.

Learn more about Bellemo and Cat 

• Website - Bellemo and Cat

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Running/Walking (moving forward) can be viewed during the day or night.

The concertina-shaped walls have been fabricated to form a series of copper and glass components. By night, the LED lighting brings the artwork to life. 

The human figures are representations of members of the community that transcend ethnicity and evoke the sense of a progressive, forward moving populace.

Location of artwork

•  673 - 675 Doncaster Road, Doncaster, VIC 3108
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About the artist

Light art and glass art are terms commonly applied to the site specific public art of artist Warren Langley. In a career spanning over 40 years, the past 20 years has seen an increasing use of light as a principle design element to create public art interventions which undergo day to night transformations. 

Langley’s ouvre addresses the notion of sight/site, both visual and contextual. His 40 year portfolio of artworks for the built environment span all manner of materials and processes, but he is most well known for his large scale works in light and glass.

Learn more about Warren Langley 

• Website - Warren Langley

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Spontaneous in form, Halperns’ sculptures are created in a style that recalls visions of Gaudi, Picasso and the playful surrealism of French sculptor Niki de Sant Phalle. Yet the works have become distinctly Halpernesque in their ability to delight and surprise.

We acquired the sculptures Big Cat and Water Creature in 2011 to commemorate the opening of MC Square. The sculptures were installed in preparation for the official opening in September 2012.

Location of artwork

•  MC Square -  687 Doncaster Rd, Doncaster VIC 3108
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About the artist

Deborah Halpern is known for her wildly colourful mosaic work.

Creator of many of Melbourne’s most loved public sculptures, Halpern’s works exude an innate vitality and alluring simplicity. 

Halpern is a multi-disciplinary artist who explores the mediums of sculpture, painting, pottery, glass blowing and printmaking. Her work can be exuberant and whimsical but is also imbued with a deep artistry.

Over her 33-year career, Halpern has produced an extraordinary body of work and through her numerous public sculptures, and has become well known and respected within the community.
 

Learn more about Deborah Halpern

• Website - Deborah Halpern

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It was great to get input from a wide range of community members who helped inform the design through the series of workshops.

Common themes that were explored included the river, the natural environment and the experience of walking along and looking across the river to the other side.

The design captures these themes whilst incorporating bright colours that will sit within, and complement the surrounding environment.

Location of artwork

•  Warrandyte Community House - 2 Webb Street Warrandyte, VIC 3113
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About the artist

Angharad Neal-Williams is an Illustrator, muralist and graphic recorder based in Melbourne.

Her work combines strong line drawing with controlled colour and shape to create thoughtful, fun and conceptual drawings.

She utilises both digital and traditional mediums to ensure outcomes feel natural and expressive through quirky imperfections in the simple line work. Her style is distinctly optimistic and focuses strongly on the importance of composition and line.

Learn more about Angharad Neal-Williams

• Website - Angharad Neal-Williams
• Instagram - @angharad.nw

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This piece represents joy, life, culture and connection to country and community.

It is a new story being told in this space, one of rejuvenation and new life. These totems are the new protectors of this space, the spiritual protectors of gathering and community.

Through this tough time, our spirit is still strong, and our community is there.

The art aims to bring life and colour to the street and features three local Manningham animals – the black swan, platypus and wombat. 

Robert says the idea is that “the activation of creativity and art in this space helps to bring the community together”.

Location of artwork

•  Bendigo Bank, Templestowe Village -  128 James Street, Templestowe VIC 3106
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About the artists

Robert Michael Young, Keedan Rigney and Lukas Kasper are the three artists behind the footpath artwork at Templestowe Village. 

Learn more about the artists

• Instagram - @robertmichaelyoung
• Instagram - @kasperart
• Instagram - @corneliuspaint

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Let us walk together depicts aspects of the characteristics, history and development of the municipality. 

The overall form of the panels is curved along the upper edge, which symbolises the rolling hills of the area visible to the north and east, while the staggered lower edge represents the city skyline and the municipality’s built environment.
 

• Panel 1 - water symbols represent the Birrarung, Mullum Mullum and Koonung Creeks
• Panel 2 - depicts windbreaks planted to protect the fruit trees
• Panels 3, 10 and 12 - tell of clearing the land, planting of crops and orchards and the early development of the suburbs
• Panel 4 - the lizard tracks symbolise animal life
• Panel 5 - rain and flooding has significantly impacted on the land and habitation
• Panel 6 - the coming together of artists at Heide
• Panel 7 - represents fire used to clear the land and the bushfires that have wreaked havoc
• Panel 8 - the body paint symbolises the dance performed at the meeting of the Kulin Nation
• Panel 9 - represents multiculturalism, unity and sense of community
• Panel 11 - the campsites or suburbs and the roads leading to and from Manningham
• Panel 13 - the x-ray image of an animal stomach represents the possum skin cloaks distinctive to First Nations people from southeast Australia
• Panel 14 - snake tracks

To find out more about  the commissioning of this artwork, view the video produced by Message Stick.

Scar Tree Shields

Scar trees have had their bark removed by First Nations people.

The removal of bark does not kill the tree but leaves a clearly visible and generally symmetrical scar. The symmetry of the scar is one way of telling whether the scar was caused by human action rather than of natural causes. Scars can range in length from thirty centimetres to five metres. The size of the scar provides a clue as to whether the bark was used for a container, shield, a canoe or a slab for making a shelter.

There are a number of scar trees in the area of the Bolin Bolin Swamp along the Birrarung.  

Location of artwork

•  Level 2, Manningham Civic Centre, 699 Doncaster Road, Doncaster VIC 3108
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About the artists

In 1998 Wathaurong Glass was formed to express Aboriginal art in glass. The techniques used to produce their products include the use of kiln forming (slumping glass), sandblasting or any other technique they feel is suitable to achieve the desired result.

The name “WATHAURONG” (wathawurrung or wadda wurrung) is a recognised tribe, it consisted of 25 groups (clans). The boundaries of Wathaurong are from Geelong, north to Werribee River, northwest to Bacchus Marsh, south west to Cressy, south east to Colac, east to Lorne and north back to Geelong, encompassing the Bellarine Peninsula.

Learn more about Wathaurong Glass 

• Website - Wathaurong Glass and Arts

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This playful and bold ground artwork attempts to reflect on our connection to nature as we go about our lives in a heavily urbanised and concrete and asphalt covered world.

The artwork is also about how the places we live in were in the past, and how they could be in the future.

The ‘contour lines’ reference the topography of the land as a 1:1 scale map that we walk through. A compass is used as a simple practical guide in direction and navigating the city, with the sun and moons represented to show the passing of days and months. There are references to the local flowers of tea tree and eucalyptus, local ladybugs and dragonflies, and magpie feathers.

I hope people find unexpected games within the design too, whether jumping from flower to flower, following a dot track or exploring the compass.

Location of artwork

•  Parkview Reserve, Ayr Street South, East Doncaster, VIC 3108
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About the artist

Tom Civil is an artist, muralist, community art facilitator and printmaker. 

Tom has been making art in the streets of Melbourne for over 18 years, and has painted over 30 commissioned murals across town in the last ten years.

Tom's ground artworks reference through the language of mapping and symbology, our connection to nature in a heavily urbanised and concrete and asphalt covered world. The ground artworks also allow us to day-dream about how the places we live were in the past, and how they could be in the future. They also create fun interactive play moments in our daily lives.

Learn more about Tom Civil

• Website - Tom Civil
• Instagram - @thomascivilian

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