Public Art Stroll: Canberra City
To connect with audiences who cannot physically make it to Canberra during the festival, DESIGN Canberra is curating a DESIGN Anytime program. This new program includes self-guided tours of iconic architecture and contemporary design throughout Canberra. This will promote and celebrate Canberra as a global city of design every day of the year. This walking tour of public art begins in Civic Square on London Circuit and ends in Knowles Place on London Circuit on the other side of City Hill.
To connect with audiences who cannot physically make it to Canberra during the festival, DESIGN Canberra is curating a DESIGN Anytime program. This new program includes self-guided tours of iconic architecture and contemporary design throughout Canberra. This will promote and celebrate Canberra as a global city of design every day of the year.
This walking tour of public art begins in Civic Square on London Circuit and ends in Knowles Place on London Circuit on the other side of City Hill.
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Frank HINDER,<br />
‘Star ceiling’<br />
1963<br />
glass mosaic ceiling<br />
Look up! This entrance was originally the entrance<br />
to Monaro Mall, the first three-storey covered<br />
shopping mall in Australia, designed by Whitehead<br />
and Payne, and opened by Prime Minister Robert<br />
Menzies in 1963. Created as part of the building,<br />
the vaulted tiled ceiling is a remarkable blend of<br />
form, tone and colour, and perhaps the most subtle<br />
work of art in the city centre. It’s also a testament to<br />
the significance of art in <strong>Canberra</strong> life and the sense<br />
of modernity that the city encapsulated. Margel<br />
Hinder, the artist of the marvellous aluminium<br />
‘Sculptured form’ (1970) in ‘Woden Town Square’<br />
(1970) and Frank’s wife, was commissioned to<br />
make one of her kinetic sculptures for Monaro<br />
Mall, Revolving sphere 1963, which was suspended<br />
above the escalators, but is now sadly lost.<br />
LOCATION. Entrance to David Jones from <strong>City</strong> Walk<br />
‘Monaro Mall’. Photo: Bronwen Jones.
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