List of public art in Western Australia

This is a list of public art on permanent public display in Perth and other locations in Western Australia. For convenience, the list is grouped as Perth, Northbridge/Perth Cultural Centre, East Perth/Claisebrook Cove, Kings Park, Fremantle, other Metropolitan and Regional.

The list applies only to works of public art accessible in an outdoor public space; it does not include artwork on display inside a museum. Most of the works mentioned are sculptures, although several notable memorials are listed also. Public art may include statues, sculptures, monuments, memorials, murals and mosaics.

In 1989 the Western Australian state government established a "Percent for Art" policy.[1] The scheme which enacts the policy is administered by the Department of Culture and the Arts and requires that up to one percent of the construction budget for new public works over $2,000,000, be expended on public artwork. The Town of Vincent was the first Local government authority to have a similar scheme. It requires that "commercial, non-residential, and/or mixed residential/commercial developments over $1,000,000 are to set aside a minimum of one per cent of the estimated total project cost for the development to be used for public artworks."[2] Over 700 works have been installed under the state government scheme since 1989.[3]

Perth CBD

Includes public artworks in the Perth CBD. Excludes the Northbridge precinct and the Perth Cultural Centre, Kings Park, East Perth and Claisebrook Cove.

Name Image Location Artist Year
"Ascalon"[4] St George's Cathedral, Perth Marcus Canning, Christian de Vietri 2009
Percy Buttons' Aspiration Hay Street Mall, Perth Joan Walsh-Smith & Charles Smith 1996
Conic Fugue (Enigma) QV1 Building, Corner St Georges Terrace and Milligan Street, Perth Charles O. Perry 1991
Sir Charles Court[5] Corner Mount St and St Georges Terrace Tony Jones 2011
"Footsteps in Time" 40–50 St Georges Terrace, Perth Joan Walsh-Smith, Charles Smith 2004
Alexander Forrest Stirling Gardens entrance, Barrack Street and St Georges Terrace, Perth Pietro Porcelli 1916
"Going Home" (Kangaroos with Briefcases) Florence Hummerston Reserve, Corner Mount Street and St Georges Terrace, Perth Anne Neil 1996
"Grow Your Own"[6]

(colloquially named "The Green Cactus")[7]

 Forrest Place, Perth James Angus 2011
Gumnut Babies Stirling Gardens, Perth Claire Bailey, Indra Geidans 2001
Bishop Mathew Hale The Cloisters, St Georges Terrace, Perth Greg James 2008
Talbot Hobbs Esplanade, Perth Edward Kohler, Alex Winning 1940
"Judith"[8] Howard St Karin Tulloch 1936. Bronze casting in 2008
"Kangaroos on the Terrace"[9] Stirling Gardens St Georges Terrace Perth Joan Walsh-Smith, Charles Smith 1997
"Memory Markers"[10][11] Stirling Gardens, Perth Anne Neil 2005
Meteorite (Fire... Water... Earth) Forrest Place, Perth Malcolm McGregor 2000
Migrants Memorial Ozone Reserve, Corner Plain Street and Riverside Drive, Perth A.J.N Macdonald & Associates 2008
"Harmony of Minerals Obelisk" aka "The Ore Obelisk" Stirling Gardens, Perth Paul Ritter and Ralph Hibble 1971
"The Strike" (Miners) Perth Mint, Perth Greg James 1991
"Oushi zokei" (Mobius in space)[12] Esplanade railway station, Perth Keizo Ushio 2010
Paper Planes 237 Adelaide Terrace, Perth
People in the City Central Park, Corner Hay and William Streets, Perth Anne Neil 1999
John Septimus Roe Corner Victoria Avenue and Adelaide Terrace, Perth Greg James 1990
Captain James Stirling Foundation Park between Perth Town Hall and the Treasury Buildings Perth Clement P Somers 1979
Bronze Swans Swan Bell Tower, Barrack Square, Perth Sue Flavell, Gina Moore 2000
Unidentified Photographer Barracks Arch, Corner Barrack Street and Elder Street, Perth Anne Neil, Greg James 1996
De Vlamingh Memorial Barrack Square, Perth Joan Walsh-Smith, Charles Smith 2008
Totem Perth Arena, Perth Geoffrey Drake-Brockman 2012

Northbridge/Perth Cultural Centre

Public artworks in the Northbridge precinct and around Perth Cultural Centre.

Name Image Location Artist Year
"Arch"[13] Corner of Lake and James Streets, Northbridge Lorenna Grant 2010
"Between 1979–1980"[14] Art Gallery, Perth Cultural Centre, James Street, Perth Clement Meadmore 1981
Der Rufer (The Caller) Perth Cultural Centre Gerhard Marcks
Cast by Giesserie Barth, Berlin[15]		 1981
"Gateway 2: Coalesce"[16] Perth Cultural Centre, James Street, Perth
31°56.970′S 115°51.630′E / 31.949500°S 115.860500°E		 Akio Makigawa 1987
"Nexus" Plateia Hellas, Lake Street, Northbridge Simon Gauntlett 2002
"Unfolding Lives"[17] Perth Cultural Centre, eastern end of the James Street mall, Northbridge Judith Forrest 2010

East Perth and Claisebrook Cove

Since the late 1980s, a major urban renewal project surrounding Claisebrook Cove has been underway, with abandoned industrial sites levelled and replaced with residential streetscapes and landscaped waterfonts. These have been interspersed with a good collection of public art.

Name Image Location Artist Year
"Channel Markers"/"Marker Seats" Claisebrook Cove Malcolm McGregor 1995
"Impossible Triangle" East Parade Roundabout, East Perth Brian MacKay, Ahmad Abas 1999
Peter Pan Queens Gardens, East Perth George Frampton 1929
Concrete Poem Sculpture (Spiral Sculpture) Claisebrook Cove Rob Finlayson, PlanE
Edmund Rice Centenary Park, Trinity College, East Perth
"Sea Queen" Claisebrook Cove Tony Jones
"Shimmer" 6.6m x 4.9m x 8.0m, stainless steel[18] Claisebrook Cove SURF (Jurek Wybraniec/Stephen Neille) 2012
"Shoreline Marker Posts" Claisebrook Cove Malcolm McGregor 1995
"Standing Figure" Claisebrook Cove Tony Jones
"The Red Surveyor" Corner Saunders and Glyde Streets, Claisebrook Cove Jon Tarry
Bronze figures (unknown title) 99 Plain Street, East Perth

Kings Park

The following list includes public artworks in Kings Park which is located on the outskirts of the Perth CBD. Kings Park was established as a public park in 1872 and contains a varied collection of public artworks ranging from early 20th century war monuments to life-sized dinosaur models. It is said to contain "more memorials, statues and honour avenues than any other park in Australia".[19]

Name Image Location Artist Year
Bali Memorial Fraser Avenue, Kings Park David Jones, Kevin Draper 2003
The South African War Memorial
(originally "Fallen Soldiers Memorial")[20]		 Fraser Avenue, Kings Park James White 1901
Bullockornis Synergy Park Land, Kings Park
Cenotaph, Eternal Flame and War Memorial Fraser Avenue, Kings Park Designed by Sir J. Talbot Hobbs 1929
Arnold Cook Memorial Entrance to the Ivy Watson Playground, Kings Park
31°57′08″S 115°50′16″E / 31.95222°S 115.83778°E		 Greg James 1989
Edith Dircksey Cowan Memorial Fraser Avenue and Kings Park Road, Kings Park W. Ogilvy 1934
Diprotodon[21] Synergy Park Land, Kings Park Travis Tischler 2010
Floral Clock Fraser Avenue, Kings Park Bequest from Frank Wittenoom 1962
"Lord Forrest" Fraser Avenue and Lovekin Drive, Kings Park Sir Edgar Betram MacKennal 1927
Muttaburrasaurus Synergy Park Land, Kings Park
George Leake Fountain Fraser Avenue, Kings Park 1902
Phytosaur[21] Synergy Park Land, Kings Park Travis Tischler 2010
Pioneer Women's Memorial Forrest Drive, Kings Park Margaret Priest 1968
Queen Victoria Fraser Avenue, Kings Park 1903
Vietnam Memorial Synergy Park Land, Kings Park 2002
"Wood Be Good" Ivy Watson Playground, Kings Park

Fremantle

Public artworks within the City of Fremantle.

Name Image Location Artist Year
The Explorers' Monument (Maitland Brown Memorial) Esplanade Park, Fremantle Pietro Porcelli 1913
Child Migrant Statue Victoria Quay, Fremantle Joan Walsh-Smith, Charles Smith 2006
John Curtin Kings Square, Fremantle Joan Walsh-Smith, Charles Smith 2005
Sir Hughie Edwards Kings Square, Fremantle Andrew Kay 2002
The Fishermen Fishing Boat Harbour, Fremantle Greg James, Jon Tarry 2004
John Gerovich ("Mark of the Century") Fremantle Oval, Fremantle Robert Hitchcock 2006
"Iris Series" 20 Ord Street, Fremantle Greg James 2009
C. Y. O'Connor Fremantle Port Authority entrance, Fremantle Pietro Porcelli 1911
Ribbon Sculpture Challenger TAFE, Fremantle
Sculptor Pietro Porcelli Kings Square, Fremantle Greg James 1993
Bon Scott Fremantle Fishing Boat Harbour, Fremantle Greg James 2008
Vasco da Gama (Portuguese Memorial) Esplanade Park, Fremantle Ciare Bailey, Edgar Nailor, John Kirkness 1997
Southern Crossing Victoria Quay Tony Jones and Ben Jones 2002
Tom Edwards Memorial Kings Square, Fremantle Pietro Porcelli 1919

Other metropolitan

Public artworks in the Perth metropolitan area and outside the Perth CBD and Kings Park.

Name Image Location Artist Year
Aboriginal Family Minim Cove, Mosman Park Greg James 1999
"Asteroids"[22] Broadway and The Avenue Roundabout, Nedlands Rick Vermey 2001
Bibbulmun Yorga woman and her dog Neil Hawkins Park, Joondalup Ron Corbett
Norman Brearley Perth Airport Gerard Darwin
Catalpa Memorial Esplanade Road, Rockingham, Western Australia Joan Walsh-Smith, Charles Smith 2005
Henry Camfield Burswood Park Joan Walsh-Smith, Charles Smith 1992
Centaur Memorial (1874 shipwreck) North Beach Kevin Hayes 1979
"Centrefold"[23] Marine Parade (north end), Cottesloe Mark Grey-Smith 2006
Dr Arnold Cook and Dreena Association of the Blind, Kitchener Avenue, Victoria Park Greg James 2007
John Curtin Cottesloe Civic Centre, Cottesloe Peter Gelencsér 1987
"The Dancer"[24] Sir Lawrence Jackson Courtyard, University of Western Australia Greg James 1979
Mary Durack and child, "the Storyteller" Burswood Park, Burswood Joan Walsh-Smith, Charles Smith 1995
"Eliza" Matilda Bay Tony Jones 2007
"Feathers" North Street and Marine Parade Roundabout, Swanbourne Anne Neil 2004
"Fledglings" Shenton College, Shenton Park Greg James 2000
May Gibbs Windsor Park, South Perth Joan Walsh-Smith, Charles Smith 2005
"Girl With Two Dolphins" Centro Galleria, Morley Andrew Kay 1996
Gumnut Fountains (4 locations) • Corner Kalamunda and Canning Roads, Kalamunda
• Corner Hale and Morrison Roads, Forrestfield
• Corner Kalamunda and Newburn Roads, High Wycombe
• Shire of Kalamunda offices entrance statement, 2 Railway Road, Kalamunda		 Joan Walsh-Smith, Charles Smith –
–
2008
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Paddy Hannan Burswood Park, Burswood Joan Walsh-Smith, Charles Smith 1998
"Here Birdy Birdy!"[25] Public Library, Inglewood Clare Bailey 2004
3 Children, "Hopscotch" Burswood Park Joan Walsh-Smith, Charles Smith 1995
"Iris Metropolitan" 81 Walcott Street, Mount Lawley Greg James 2008
unnamed Islamic artwork[26] Riverside Gardens, Bayswater Arif Satar. Commissioned by Dar Al Shifar (Inc.) 2005
"Lina"[25] City of Stirling Offices, Cedric Street, Stirling Tony Jones 2005
"Lotus"[27] Edith Cowan University, Joondalup Nigel Helyer 2006
"Marble Bun"[27] Edith Cowan University, Joondalup Rodney Glick 2004
"Nurture and Growth" Scotch College, Swanbourne Greg James 1997
C. Y. O'Connor C. Y. O'Connor Beach, North Coogee Tony Jones 1999
Herb Elliott and Shirley Strickland, "the Olympians" Burswood Park, Burswood Joan Walsh-Smith, Charles Smith 2001
"Oneness"[27] Edith Cowan University, Joondalup Ron Gomboc 2003
"Pas de deux" Belmont City College, Belmont Greg James 2000
"Peace" – Memorial to Fallen Soldiers Midland Railway Workshops, Midland Pietro Porcelli 1925
Pitman and Walsh Memorial (marble) Joondalup Police Academy.
Originally installed at The Police Barracks in James Street, Perth.		 Constable Douglas Cummings (uncertain), official draftsman of the Police Traffic Department.[28] 1929[29]
"Roundabout"[23] Marine Parade (south end), Cottesloe Jennifer Cochrane 2007
Scouting monument Perry Lakes 1982
"Sky Marker" Tarlton Crescent, Perth Airport Jon Tarry 2007
"Water Wing" Tarlton Crescent, Perth Airport Jon Tarry 2007
"Seed Carrier" Tarlton Crescent, Perth Airport Jon Tarry 2007
Socrates University of Western Australia, Nedlands
"Speakers" Victoria Park railway station 2010
"Spirit of the Community" Belmont Civic Centre, Belmont Andrew Kay 1999
Tribanga III Station Street, Cottesloe Clara Hali 2008
unnamed bronze 356 Oxford Street, Leederville
unnamed bronze Joondalup Police Academy
"Waterlines"[25] Terry Tyzack Aquatic Centre, Inglewood Tony Jones 2001
Vlamingh Memorial[30] Cottesloe
Willem de Vlamingh Burswood Park, Burswood Joan Walsh-Smith, Charles Smith
Aboriginal Tribal Leader Yagan Heirisson Island, Perth Robert Hitchcock 1984

Regional

Includes artworks in Western Australian country and regional centres.

Name Image Location Artist Year
Aboriginal Female Pearl Diver[31] Foreshore, Broome Joan Walsh-Smith, Charles Smith 2010
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Middleton Beach, Albany
Antony Gormley Statues, Lake Ballard Lake Ballard Antony Gormley 2003
Nicholas Baudin Albany Peter Gelencser 2005
Nicholas Baudin Busselton Peter Gelencser 2005
David Brand Shire of Irwin office foyer, Dongara
Lord Forrest Bunbury Mark Le Buse 1979
"Box Jellies" Geraldton Lotteries House – Sanford St, Geraldton Peter Zappa 2010
"Brother and Sister" Roundabout on Victoria Street, Bunbury Russell Sheridan
Camel Train (Tin Camels) Prinsep Street Roundabout, Norseman
"Circus Train – Slow Down" Leschenault Inlet Foreshore, Bunbury Alex Mickle, Nicole Mickle 2010
Desert Mounted Corps Memorial Mount Clarence, Albany Charles Gilbert, Paul Montford, Sir Bertram Mackennal 1968
"Red Dog" (The Pilbara Wanderer) High Street, Dampier
Sir John Forrest St Paul's Place, Corner Victoria and Stephens Streets, Bunbury Mark Lebuse 1979
Paddy Hannan Kalgoorlie John MacLeod 1929
Hard Hat Pearl Diver Carnarvon Street, Broome Joan Walsh-Smith, Charles Smith 1999
Miners Monument Corner Burt and Lane Streets, Boulder Clement. P. Somers 1984
Mokare Albany Terry Humble 1997
"The Navigators" ("Gateway"/"Four Winds Monument") Australind Bypass Roundabout Bunbury Jon Tarry 2000
"Norseman" (Prospectors horse) Corner Roberts and Ramsay Streets, Norseman Robert Hitchcock
Onslow War Memorial Onslow Joan Walsh-Smith, Charles Smith 2006
"Patrick" (pelican) Mandurah Terrace, Mandurah Claire Bailey
Frederick Henry Piesse Austral Terrace, Katanning Pietro Porcelli 1916
Brigadier A.W. Potts Kojonup Greg James 2007
"Shirely Shell"[32] Mandurah railway station, Mandurah
32°31′38″S 115°44′48″E / 32.527148°S 115.746621°E		 Coral Lowry 2007
HMAS Sydney Memorial Mount Scott Park, Corner George Road and Brede Street, Geraldton Joan Walsh-Smith, Charles Smith 2001
"Water Dance"[33] Forrest Highway, Lake Clifton
32°37.860′S 115°48.884′E / 32.631000°S 115.814733°E		 Anne Neil 2009
Unnamed sculpture Indian Ocean Drive near Cervantes 2010

Notes

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  1. ↑ "Western Australian State Government Percent for Art Scheme". Department of Culture and the Arts. Retrieved 29 January 2011.
  2. ↑ "Percent for Public Art". Town of Vincent. Retrieved 29 January 2011.
  3. ↑ "Art Challenge". Scoop Online. 29 June 2010.
  4. ↑ "The Story of Ascalon". St George's Cathedral. Retrieved 27 January 2011.
  5. ↑ "Sir Charles Court statue unveiled in Perth CBD". The West Australian. 29 September 2011.
  6. ↑ "Grow Your Own". Public Art Research (blog). 13 February 2012.
  7. ↑ "$1m sculpture erected in Forrest Place". PerthNow. 18 August 2011.
  8. ↑ "Judith Statue". Public Art Around the World. Retrieved 14 July 2012.
  9. ↑ "Kangaroos on the Terrace".
  10. ↑ "General Purposes Committee". City of Perth. 19 July 2005. p. 12.
  11. ↑ "Stirling Gardens, Perth City". Anne Neil.
  12. ↑ "Lord Mayor unveils new CBD sculpture". City of Perth. 5 March 2010.
  13. ↑ http://www.lorennagrant.com/
  14. ↑ "Art City". City of Perth. Retrieved 27 January 2011.
  15. ↑ Der Rufer, plaque, Perth Cultural Centre
  16. ↑ David Bromfield. "Recollections of Memory: Akio Makigawa". Retrieved 7 February 2011.
  17. ↑ "Memorial unveiled to Western Australia's Forgotten Australians". Perth Cultural Centre. Western Australian State Government. 13 December 2010. Retrieved 28 January 2011.
  18. ↑ "Shimmer adds final sparkle to Claisebrook". The West Australian. 14 March 2012.
  19. ↑ "Memorials". Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority. Retrieved 30 January 2011.
  20. ↑ "The South African War Memorial – Kings Park". The Aiming Post. The Royal Australian Artillery Historical Society of Western Australia Newsletter. August 1999. p. 7.
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 "New dinosaurs discovered in Synergy Parkland". Synergy. 15 March 2010.
  22. ↑ Asteroid, Nedlands plaque
  23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 "Artist Subsidies and Purchases, Cottesloe 2009". sculptureinternational.com. Retrieved 25 February 2011.
  24. ↑ The Dancer, Nedlands plaque
  25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 25.2 "Art in Our Landscape". City of Stirling. Retrieved 10 February 2011.
  26. ↑ "Council Minutes". City of Bayswater. 22 February 2005.
  27. ↑ 27.0 27.1 27.2 "Sculpture Park". Edith Cowan University. Retrieved 17 May 2014.
  28. ↑ "WALSH PITMAN MEMORIAL.". Western Argus (Kalgoorlie, WA: National Library of Australia). 10 January 1928. p. 19. Retrieved 1 May 2011.
  29. ↑ "MEMORIAL TO TWO GALLANT POLICEMEN.". The West Australian (Perth: National Library of Australia). 1 November 1929. p. 26. Retrieved 1 May 2011.
  30. ↑ "The Vlamingh memorials at Cottesloe". fremantlebiz (blog). Retrieved 25 February 2011.
  31. ↑ Prior, Flip (30 November 2010). "Tribute to Broomes forgotten women". The West Australian. West Australian Newspapers Pty Ltd. Retrieved 27 January 2011.
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