Wentworth Falls Lake Sculpture Walk
Take a walk and discover the carved sandstone sculptures in the park. Created in 2000 as part of the Wentworth Falls Lake Sculpture Project, each sculpture depicts the seed pod of a native plant that can be found around the lake. About the Project The Wentworth Falls Lake Sculpture project began with the idea to create the first of several sculpture parks throughout the Blue Mountains, with permanent and changing artworks on public land. Sculpture parks or indeed any other art in public spaces are signposts of artistic communities, local involvement and pride. Public art in general enhances the natural or built environment, takes art out of the Gallery and into the open, for everyone to enjoy and interact with. The Blue Mountains was nominated for World Heritage Listing, for its natural beauty, and at the same time became the ‘City of the Arts’, due to its large and varied arts community. As a response to both, it was an obvious choice to use sandstone as a medium, and carving as a technique, to draw attention to the importance of native plants and the role they play within our environment, our culture and our heritage.
Take a walk and discover the carved sandstone sculptures in the park.
Created in 2000 as part of the Wentworth Falls Lake Sculpture Project, each sculpture depicts the seed pod of a native plant that can be found around the lake.
About the Project
The Wentworth Falls Lake Sculpture project began with the idea to create the first of several sculpture parks throughout the Blue Mountains, with permanent and changing artworks on public land. Sculpture parks or indeed any other art in public spaces are signposts of artistic communities, local involvement and pride.
Public art in general enhances the natural or built environment, takes art out of the Gallery and into the open, for everyone to enjoy and interact with. The Blue Mountains was nominated for World Heritage Listing, for its natural beauty, and at the same time became the ‘City of the Arts’, due to its large and varied arts community.
As a response to both, it was an obvious choice to use sandstone as a medium, and carving as a technique, to draw attention to the importance of native plants and the role they play within our environment, our culture and our heritage.
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acknowledgments<br />
I gratefully acknowledge the following people and organisations<br />
who have made contributions to this project:<br />
Artists: Nick Dörrer, Ellan, Anna Baird, Mary Anderson,<br />
Michael Byrt, Vicki Skeen, Robyn Austin, Peter Baird, Doris<br />
Rainsford, Hugo Rojas, Alexis Apfelbaum, Marco Grilli, Maija<br />
Collishaw, Sonja van As and Petrina Louise Fuda.<br />
Technical assistants: Kevin Atkins, Ken Anderson, Max<br />
Skeen, Malcolm Mc Causland and Harley Ives.<br />
The original group of students who could not continue<br />
the project, due to its delay: Julie Moremon, Jennifer Mc<br />
Elligott, Denise Portanger, Rita Lynch, Natalie Topaz, Mick<br />
Morrow, Raoul Olivares, Susan Ashley and Dawn Wilson.<br />
Margaret Baker for information on native plants.<br />
Elin Howe for the essay on public sculpture.<br />
Esther Scholem for proof reading.<br />
The local community and visitors for their support.<br />
All those who have contributed towards the education kit.<br />
Blue Mountains City Council<br />
Blue Mountains Inaugural ‘City of the Arts’<br />
New South Wales Government - Ministry for the Arts<br />
Blue Mountains Organic Community Gardens<br />
Nepean Community College<br />
BMCC Staff<br />
John Ellison - Cultural Officer<br />
Lin Mountstephen - Cultural Development Co-ordinator<br />
Jasmine Lance - Cultural Development Officer<br />
Rick Goehner -Open Space & Recreation Planning Officer<br />
Rachael Veldman -Open Space & Recreation Technical Officer<br />
Supapon Raffan Lantay Lefkovich - Community Gardens Co-ordinator<br />
Phillip Furken - Yellow Rock Quarry<br />
Ian Hayes & Associates - Consulting civil and structural engineers<br />
Rod Hunter, Stephen Hunter & Padraig Hungerford - Milestone<br />
Masons<br />
Phillip Tilt - Bobcat & Tipper Hire<br />
Peter Morris & staff - Mountain Cranes and Rigging services<br />
Louisa Murray - Information Officer, Royal Botanical Gardens<br />
Warren Ross - Blue Mountains Community Arts Council<br />
Gabriella Hegyes<br />
Project Organiser<br />
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