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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Jan BROWN,<br />
‘Icarus series’<br />
2009<br />
bronze [scaled up from original small ciment<br />
fondu works from 2004 & 2005 - 06, in<br />
the collection of the <strong>Canberra</strong> Museum and<br />
Gallery]<br />
Jan Brown has been one of <strong>Canberra</strong>’s most<br />
significant figures in the arts since her arrival here<br />
in 1956, as an artist, teacher – at the ANU School<br />
of <strong>Art</strong> and its precursors – and advocate for<br />
Territory support of artists. Her art has focussed<br />
on the natural world, in particular birds, whom<br />
she has often imbued with human characteristics<br />
and follies. With the ‘Icarus 1-4 series’ she merged<br />
bird and human in her treatment of the Greek<br />
myth of Daedalus and his son Icarus; the father<br />
created wings from feathers and wax to allow<br />
them to escape captivity on the island of Crete,<br />
but Icarus flew too near the sun, the wax melted<br />
and he fell into the sea. Another major work by<br />
Brown is the bronze ‘Kangaroos’ (1979-80) in<br />
Commonwealth Park.<br />
Commissioned by artsACT.<br />
LOCATION. Petrie Plaza, near <strong>City</strong> Walk intersection<br />
‘Icarus’ series. Photo: Craft ACT.
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