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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Telopea speciosissima<br />
Waratah<br />
With a fiery red head of densely packed flowers and large petal-like bracts, supported proudly on<br />
a few upright 2-3m long branches, the Waratah of Aboriginal dreaming stories, is the real attention<br />
seeker in eucalypt forests. Most stunning is the wonderful symmetry of the thick red styles which<br />
kneel side by side facing the apex of a flower head that may be up to 15cm wide. The name, ‘Telopea’,<br />
which means ‘seen from afar’ is most apt. After flowering 10-20 winged seeds are pouched<br />
in long woody follicles which mature from green to grey, and hang below the new red-tinged foliage<br />
like drying bananas. The leaves too are distinctive, varying according to growing conditions. Always<br />
long, often to 16cm, some are tough with uneven toothed margins and obvious veins, while others<br />
are more softly waxy.<br />
Family: Proteaceae<br />
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