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Docklands showcases the very best of Artworks by established and Art at Docklands is an unforgettable
Melbourne, including the citys well emerging Australian artists have experience that will surprise and
known creative vitality. Public art has been inspired by themes of history delight you. Enjoy a walk through
contributed a strong sense of identity and future, land and sea, humanity Docklands with this guide and
to Docklands with 36 artworks situated and technology. find out more about the individual
in the parks, promenades and built artworks that comprise one of the
into the architecture and landscape. most extensive public art programs
in the world.
 1 Heavy Metal 2Walk of Stars (2006)
Jam Session (2009) Peter Cortlett and
Louise Paramor Jamie Cooper

Forecourt, Costco Wholesale, Waterfront City Piazza,

383 Footscray Road Docklands Drive

Heavy Metal Jam Session is a Walk of Stars is a Hollywood-

striking landscape of strangely style celebration of Australian
familiar objects. A shipping entertainers by sculptor
pallet, stools, hoops and other Peter Cortlett and muralist
domestic and industrial objects Jamie Cooper. Initiated by
have been jammed together the childrens charity Variety,
in playful combination of scale, Walk of Stars includes a mural
1 colour and form, welcoming depicting significant Australian
visitors to Costco Wholesale. performing artists of the stage
and screen, star plaques for
100 individual performing
artists and four bronze statues
of celebrity artists of the
last century Dame Nellie
Melba, Kylie Minogue, Graham
Kennedy and John Farnham.

3 Ned and Dan (2005) 4 Silence (2003)

Alexander Knox Adrian Mauriks
Faade, Nolan Building, NewQuay Promenade
Caravel Lane
This three-dimensional frieze Sculptor Adrian Mauriks
is inspired by Sidney Nolans has described this work as
1946 Ned Kelly paintings. a series of forms arousing
2 3 The Australian landscape is to the mind, appealing to
represented by the undulating memory, reminding you of
faade walls, which are treated natural things clouds,
with a unique pixelated a tree, a forest questioning
perforation method that and gesturing, and at the
produces complex shadow same time promoting
plays. The helmet-like corner sustainability in all things.
nodes are references to the The work has a quiet presence,
Kelly masks; they frame the suggesting gentleness and an
mirrored sculptures within, opposing view of the chaotic
reflecting a morphing vista of world outside.
sunlight and sky that moves
gently in silent tribute to the
waves of the sea.

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5 Outside Inside Out 6 Salt / Fresh (2010)
(2005)
Matthew McCarthy Jonathan Jones
and Andrew Trevillian
Faade, Arkley Building, Foyer, 380 Docklands Drive
Caravel Lane
This colossal mural by designer Responding to the sites
Matthew McCarthy and natural history and honouring
typographer Andrew Trevillian the traditional homelands
spans 45 metres and sits of the Kulin Nations,
over four levels at the rear of Salt/Fresh represents the
NewQuays Arkley Tower. mixing of the salt and fresh
A typographical tribute to the waters of the Yarra and
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late Australian painter Howard Maribyrnong Rivers. In a
Arkley, it is a raw and elegant spectacular display of linework,
interplay of typography, words patterns and light, the
and meaning that evokes the artist pays tribute to ripples,
Australian suburban psyche. wavelets and tidal shifts -
The work was recognised a testimony to the waters
by the Australian Graphic greatness.
Design Association in its 2006
National Biennial Awards for
Creative Excellence.

7 ColumnWall 8 Colony (2008)

hidden + revealed
(2008)
Adrian Page Troy Innocent

Foyer, 370 Docklands Drive Main entrance and Courtyard of 6 7

Life.lab, 198 Harbour Esplanade
Six illuminated and intricately A network of 48 totems is
faceted columns stand like embedded in the Forest
sentinels at the entrance to Walk environment of Digital
the building. Inscribed with Harbour. At night, the totems
numerical codes, the columns are silhouetted by a changing
present a tantalising puzzle, spectrum of light, and the
and at night the lantern forest comes alive with a
effect adds an other worldly cacophony of sound. This
atmosphere to the street. interactive landscape responds
to human presence both on
site and online.

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 9 Field of Play (2007) 10 Shoal Fly By (2003)
Troy Innocent Cat Macleod and
Michael Bellemo

Harbour Lane, Harbour Esplanade,

Digital Harbour opposite Etihad Stadium

Walking down Harbour Lane Inspired by flying shoals

is like walking into a virtual of fish, fishnets, fish scales,
game world, especially at night fishing lures and rippling
when illuminated icons really water, the sculpture captures
come to life. The colourful the dynamics of the location
icons are embedded under foot in an extraordinary feat of
and in the walls at the end of contemporary engineering.
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the lane, like futuristic graffiti. From a distance, the works
They define a playing field that appear connected and resemble
can be activated via mobile a floating, darting mirage.
phone (using Bluetooth). If
you have a phone with you,
connect and join the game
now or later at
www.fieldofplay.net.

11 Threaded Field (1999) 12 Art Wall (2000)

Simon Perry Peter D. Cole
Near Gates 1 and 6, Rear of Channel Seven building,
Etihad Stadium concourse Etihad Stadium concourse
Melbourne sculptor Simon Art Wall, situated behind
11 Perry, best known for his Channel 7, explores the
very popular public purse relationship between television
in the Bourke Street Mall, and image the nature of
practices a Pop Art sensibility television as a transmitter
and explores the forces that of electronic images, the
shape our experience of public perception of those images,
places. A giant green thread and the intimacy of television
playfully loops and knots its as a medium. A series of small
way through the Stadium windows contain three distinct
concourse, an unexpected 3D installations a diorama,
player on the field. The sculpture a scale model of a television
has itself become a popular room with a tiny working
playground. television set and a series of
printed glass elements.

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13 Cow Up A Tree (1999) 14 Aqualung (2006)
John Kelly John Mead
Harbour Esplanade, Captains Walk, between
opposite Etihad Stadium the NAB buildings,
800 Bourke Street
The cows distinctive shape Melbourne artist John
references the portrait of Meads Aqualung is a sleek
Australian artist Joshua Smith and abstract sculpture
by William Dobell, which that is loosely based on
won the 1943 Archibald the breathing apparatus of
Prize and was subject to the the human body. It has a
infamous court case during peaceful, contemplative and
WWII where art was put timeless presence in the busy 13
on trial. At that time, Dobell public thoroughfare in the
served as a camouflage North-South link of the NAB
labourer, producing papier buildings. Appearing to emerge
mache cows used to disguise from underground, Aqualung
airfields and fool Japanese quietly disrupts the breezeway
pilots. Inspired by a flood and the clean, efficient
that swept cattle into trees in architecture that surrounds it
Victorias Gippsland area, this and like much of Meads work,
work imagines a flood hitting has the ability to take ones
Dobells airfield. breath away.

15 Poise (2005) 16 Anchor (2005)

Warren Langley Neil Dawson
Near Bendigo Bank building, Near Gate 8, above Etihad
Etihad Stadium concourse Stadium concourse
Made from toughened Anchor offers a tribute to the 14
safety glass and LED lighting maritime crafts of the past
within a steel frame, Poise is specifically, decorative rope
shimmering and crystalline by work by using the maritime
day and glowing blue by night. technologies of the present.
Langley says It would appear Dramatically changing its
that every culture has within appearance throughout the
its mythology a sacred vessel. day, the work is approximately
These vessels are variously 33 metres from the ground
perceived as receptacles of and secured by cables that
something precious, whether are almost invisible, so it
spiritual intent or otherwise. appears to float in the sky. New
Here, the precarious position Zealander Neil Dawson is one of
of the vessel speaks of the Australasias most prolific artists.
delicate state of balance.

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 17 Aurora (2005) 18 Unfurling (2008)
Geoff Bartlett Andrew Rogers
Corner Harbour Esplanade and Forecourt and entrance foyer,
Bourke Street National Foods,
737 Bourke Street
Named after the Roman Three biomorphic forms
goddess of the dawn, Auroras hover at the edge of the
inverted cargo net makes forecourt, and another
a symbolic connection to appears at a distance away
Docklands history as Victorias in the foyer. Their weathered
most important port. skins unfurl and reveal a
The stainless steel surface is warm glowing interior.
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highly reflective and, at night,
is lit from within to create a
glowing orb floating above the
street. The piece encourages
pedestrians to walk through
its legs and look upwards,
to focus their attention away
from the everyday and to
reflect upon the work and
the sky beyond.

19 On the Beach (2007) 20 Its Hard To See What

Janet Burchill This All Means (2007)
Rose Nolan
Rooftop, Site One, Foyer, Site One,
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757 Bourke Street 757 Bourke Street

Docklands waterfront is Rose Nolan works with

reflected beautifully in this the heritage and heroism
work by Melbourne artist of modernism. Here, her
Janet Burchill. Constructed ribbon banner installation is
in the quintessentially urban suspended from the roof of
medium of neon, On The Beach the internal arcade, activating
references Nevil Shutes popular the vertical space with a
1957 novel about the aftermath wonderful sense of volume
of nuclear catastrophe, which and colour. The title is a
was later made into a film by playful take on the illegibility
Stanley Kramer and shot on of the text and the challenge
location in Melbourne. At the of reading art. The work
time, lead actress Ava Gardner follows suit, flying the flag for
famously commented that it abstraction with its references
was an appropriate place to to political propaganda, cheer
locate a film about the end of squads, crowds and fans.
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21 Continuum (2005) 22 Signature Work (2004)
Michael Snape Emily Floyd
Corner Bourke Street and Waterview Walk
Harbour Esplanade
Continuum is essentially about Melbourne artist Emily Floyd is
the dance of life, reflecting the known for her toy sculptures
human condition of being alive. that explore the relationship
The interconnected figures between art and its audience.
encircle each other and reach Drawing upon images from
up to the sky, conveying a sense childhood, literature, myths
of community, cooperation and legends, her work is
and wellbeing. The artist was both playful and sardonic.
inspired by Docklands coming Signature Work questions the 21 22
to life again, impacting on the relationship between artists,
communitys sense of self and art and the art market and
causing an internal shift: this its also intended to be simply
is the continuum. enjoyable as a familiar and
appealing object.

23 IOU (2005) 24 Reed Vessel (2002)

Mikala Dwyer Virginia King
Waterview Walk Docklands Park

I.O.U. is both a debt and a Virginia Kings elevated vessel

poem. Fashioned from stainless seems to have emerged
steel and toughened glass, the from the water to become
piece won a Popular Choice suspended in time and
Award at the prestigious Helen place, between land and sea.
Lempriere National Sculpture Exploring themes of migration, 23
Awards in 2002. Dwyer says, journeys and the rekindled
the IOU is something that spirit of the land, the cradle is
promises another presence: sandblasted with poetic texts
that stands for something else. that quote Australian poets
Here in its sculptural form, the and writers. It also references
promise stays suspended [and] marine archaeology and the
the mirrored object disappears once abundant foods that
into its surrounds. Aboriginal people harvested
from this former tidal wetland.

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 25 AXA Building (2007) 26 Feng Shui (2003)
Jonathon Jones and Guan Wei
Cox Architects
Faade and foyer, Foyer, 700 Collins Street
750 Collins Street

Jonathon Jones worked with The ancient Chinese tradition

Cox Architects to produce of Feng Shui conceptualises the
an installation and faade relationship between humans,
design that explores notions their environment and the
of community from a universe. Weis vast multi-panel
LR contemporary urban Aboriginal painting approximately 18
perspective. Its based on the metres long and 6 metres high
25 continuing significance of this occupies the entrance foyer
location as a place of trade and of the building occupied by the
communication in the past and Bureau of Meteorology, which
present. His contribution to the represents a modern, western
architecture encompasses the approach to understanding
stone treatment at the base environmental flux. The painting
of the building, the chevron depicts the sea a source of
perforations in the shield life and an icon of Australian
faade and a spectacular light culture populated with
installation in the foyer. abundant life, mythological
forces and historical characters.

27 Parallax (2003) 28 Eagle (2003)

Ari Purhonen Bruce Armstrong
Car park faade, Wurundjeri Way
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700 Collins Street
Sydney artist Ari Purhonens Towering high over the railway
colourful public installations lines near Collins Street, Bruce
play with parallax and Armstrongs Eagle keeps a
perspective, using colour to watchful eye over Docklands.
offer a range of views and Bruce Armstrong, one of
experiences. In this piece, Melbournes most prominent
coloured vertical louvers artists, is well known for his
accentuate the dynamics iconic representations of
of this energetic new urban animals, carved in Australian
environment. The work is hardwood. Eagle was
designed to be viewed by originally commissioned to
motorists on Wurundjeri Way commemorate the naming
as well as pedestrians using of Wurundjeri Way and
the Collins Street Bridge, is constructed of timber,
offering a changing colour aluminium and glass.
field depending on the position
of the viewer.
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29 The Wave (2006) 30 Car Nuggets (2006)
Vashti Gonda Patricia Piccinini
Faade, V1, Georgiana Street Forecourt, Kangan Institute,
ACE, 1 Batmans Hill Drive
The Wave was inspired by the Car Nuggets represents the
past and present of Docklands, essence of the car, completely
paying homage to the intrepid removed from the pragmatics
nature of the human spirit. of transportation or, in the
The waving figure plays on words of the artist, as chicken
the wave gesture, the wave nuggets are to chickens.
of the sea and the figurehead The work is a celebration of
of a ship to celebrate the everything we desire in cars
movement and immigration the fluidity, the colour, the 29 30
that creates a port area. sense of speed and beauty
Loved ones greet and farewell of form without any of
seamen, soldiers and migrants, the negatives. On another
saying goodbye to the past level, it is also a gentle
and welcoming the future. critique of the superficiality
of consumer culture.

31 Blowhole (2004) 32 Webb Bridge (2003)

Duncan Stemler Robert Owen and
Denton Corker Marshall
Docklands Park Bridge over Yarra River
between Docklands Park
and Yarras Edge

Docklands prevailing winds The sculptural Webb Bridge

have been harnessed as a was the result of an art
competition to transform 31
medium in this 15-metre
sculpture by Sydney artist a disused cargo link into an
Duncan Stemler, creating a integrated artwork that could
spectacular animated beacon also function as a pedestrian
within Docklands playground and cyclist bridge. The old
and park. The piece heralds the Webb Dock link and its new
areas maritime history and its connection to the bank is
renaissance as a vibrant urban now a unified sculptural
destination. When the wind is form. It expresses the gestural
strong enough, the armature flow of the river below and
and cups form a complex also references Koori fish
galaxy of orbiting balls, traps, drums and baskets
mimicking the anemometer the everyday tools used by
on the top of a yachts mast. Aboriginal people to harvest
this once fertile land.

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 33 Heartland (2003) 34 Photo Art Billboard
Karen Casey Various artists
Stairwell, Tower 1, Faade, Tower 1,
50 Lorimer Street 50 Lorimer Street
Shimmering energy fields The billboard site at Yarras
representing life, renewal Edge, Tower 1 Lorimer Street,
and journeying and exhibits a photographic image
echoing the patterns on by an Australian artist every
Aboriginal artefacts appear year. The billboard has become
superimposed on the a local landmark, featuring
LR glass front of the building. some of Australias best known
Heartland incorporates a rear- contemporary artists.
33 34 illuminated, animated image
developed from imprints and Pictured Castaway 1
earth mouldings taken from by Julie Rrap (2010)
the site. A cyclical lighting
sequence evokes the ebb and
flow of the river as well as the
rising and setting of the sun.

35 Windscreen Art 36 Slipstream (2004)

Installation (2003)
Dale Jones Evans and Peter Mc Gregor and
Dani Marti Bruce Slorach
Between Yarras Edge Towers Faade, Tower 3,
35 1 & 2, 3 & 4, River Esplanade 70 Lorimer Street
Two windscreens of contrasting This neon light art installation
appearance, Red Box and expresses key elements of a
Metalika add colour and busy urban setting. The images
protection from the wind and patterns of movement
between the residential along the river and the
towers. Pedestrians can enter freeway become animated as
and travel through two main light waves, racing along the
passages cut into the Red Box, building Faade. The rhythm
and walk along Metalika to be and choreography of the neon
immersed in the artworks. light animation provide
a strong sensory experience.

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1. Heavy Metal Jam Session (2009) 10. Shoal Fly By (2003) 20. Its Hard To See What 29. The Wave (2006)
2. Walk of Stars (2006) 11. Threaded Field (1999) This All Means (2007) 30. Car Nuggets (2006)
3. Ned and Dan (2005) 12. Art Wall (2000) 21. Continuum (2005) 31. Blowhole (2004)
4. Silence (2003) 13. Cow Up A Tree (1999) 22. Signature Work (2004) 32. Webb Bridge (2003)
5. Outside Inside Out (2005) 14. Aqualung (2006) 23. IOU (2005) 33. Heartland (2003)
6. Salt / Fresh (2009) 15. Poise (2005) 24. Reed Vessel (2002) 34. Photo Art Billboard
7. ColumnWall 16. Anchor (2005) 25. AXA Building (2007) 35. Windscreen Art
hidden + revealed (2008) 17. Aurora (2005) 26. Feng Shui (2003) Installation (2003)
8. Colony (2008) 18. Unfurling (2008) 27. Parallax (2003) 36. Slipstream (2004)
9. Field of Play (2007) 19. On the Beach (2007) 28. Eagle (2003)
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