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The City of Port Phillip supports urban art in major projects. One of my favourite pieces is the screening fence to the lane at 17 Robe St, St Kilda. Referring to its former use as the Alliance Francaise, the screen along the laneway tells tales from La Fontaine. Each segment of the screen is delightful. Fish, birds and and kangaroo are especially gracefully represented. Martin Hodge is the artist who created this very lovely work which has made a difficult lane charming as well as providing privacy for the residents within.
The banner picture for this blog is the vertical garden I love on the ANZ Bank Building at Docklands, Melbourne. Recently when visiting the 12 Apostles I was struck by the similarities between this dripping cliff hugging cascading vegetation and its urban counterpart. My own attempts are neither cascading nor beautiful - yet.
Urban maze or urban passage way? The strongest sensation associated with this piece was the rustling sound of the tissuey material as you passed through. I saw people walking through it head down - perhaps not even realising it was an installation.
Making a wind tunnel fully visible - these wind socks fully inflated in the space between two buildings.
There was no text associated with this insallation so I have to tell you what I made of it. This piece evoked ships, nets, sea sounds, mystery, treasure, veils and the river. The silver and gold discs are all bottle tops. The gold on the upstanding triangle is all bottle tops. It was set in a landscape of gravel and potted plants.
As part of Melbourne's State of Design Festival, design teams were invited to a 3 day design challenge at Docklands, Urban Realities. Quite by chance I happened upon these surprising and intriguing interventions - all thoughtful responses to the Docklands challenge. This is the one I bumped into which led me to the others. Rather than a petrol station, here was a bike tyre pumping station emerging from a green bench on the bike path. And a very helpful person to assist with bike tyre inflation.
The City of Port Phillip supports urban art in major projects. One of my favourite pieces is the screening fence to the lane at 17 Robe St, St Kilda. Referring to its former use as the Alliance Francaise, the screen along the laneway tells tales from La Fontaine. Each segment of the screen is delightful. Fish, birds and and kangaroo are especially gracefully represented. Martin Hodge is the artist who created this very lovely work which has made a difficult lane charming as well as providing privacy for the residents within.
