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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Matthew HARDING,<br />
‘ACT Memorial’<br />
2006<br />
stainless steel rods, bluestone basalt, glass and<br />
lighting<br />
This work was designed to commemorate people who<br />
have served Australia in war, conflict, peacekeeping and<br />
humanitarian missions and who have an association with<br />
the ACT. The design of the memorial is reminiscent of<br />
the Vietnam Memorial on Anzac Parade in describing a<br />
space for reflection rather than a monument, with 2 semicircular<br />
curtains of steel rods spiralling up to meet each<br />
other forming a kind of sculptural ‘teepee’; at its centre<br />
a sphere – or globe – etched with the words ‘Courage,<br />
Loyalty and Mateship’.<br />
Harding was a prolific sculptor in many mediums and is<br />
represented by 8 works of art in the city and Acton (some<br />
in collaboration with other artists, and including the<br />
stainless steel Cushion in Garema Place and the bronze<br />
Casuarina pods on <strong>City</strong> Walk), plus a number in <strong>Canberra</strong><br />
suburbs.<br />
The material – stainless steel rods – and form of this work<br />
is an evident and elegant nod to and echo of the <strong>Canberra</strong><br />
Times fountain with which it lines up in perfect symmetry.<br />
The records of those honoured by the memorial are at:<br />
www.memorial.act.gov.au/<br />
Commissioned by the ACT Government.<br />
LOCATION. Ainslie Place, at London Circuit end<br />
‘ACT Memorial’. Photo: Craft ACT.
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