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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Herbert THOMSON,<br />
‘Civic Carousel’<br />
c. 1914<br />
The ‘Civic Carousel’ was originally located at the St<br />
Kilda Esplanade in Melbourne where it commenced<br />
operation in 1914. It was designed and built by<br />
engineer Herbert Thomson, also the designer of<br />
Australia’s first successful steam motor car. At the time<br />
it was described as the largest portable steam riding<br />
gallery and the first made in Australia. The organ, fiftytwo<br />
hand-carved wooden horses and two elephants<br />
were imported from Germany, and the twisted brass<br />
uprights from Scotland. The outside of the carousel<br />
roof is adorned with paintings of horses, elephants<br />
and tigers in the wilderness, whilst paintings inside the<br />
merry go round feature more contemplative scenes.<br />
The ‘Civic Carousel’ is listed on the ACT Heritage<br />
Objects Register.<br />
Purchased NCDC 1973.<br />
LOCATION. Petrie Plaza and <strong>City</strong> Walk intersection<br />
‘Civic Carousel’. Photo: Craft ACT.
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