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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Acacia elata<br />
Cedar Wattle<br />
One of the loveliest Acacias, it achieves graceful heights of 18m in sheltered valleys particularly on<br />
the edges of rainforest. The cedar-like leaves are 30-40cm long and a light yellow when young. Described<br />
as bi-pinnate, they are twice divided into 3-5 pairs of pinnae, then 10-20 pairs of pinnules.<br />
The upper surface of each 5cm long pinnule is glossy green and paler beneath. Individual flowers<br />
have 4 or 5 tiny petals and numerous pale yellow stamens. They gather into globular heads of up<br />
to 50 flowers. Then up to 60 heads join in axillary clusters to put on a spectacular summer display.<br />
The straight seed pod is up to 15cm long and 14mm wide, and dark grey to brown in colour. As<br />
with other leguminous plants, the pod splits on both sides to reveal a row of plump seeds, each<br />
joined to the pod by a stalk or funicle.<br />
Family: Mimosaceae<br />
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