artisans of public art

PROJECT TITLE:

More Than Just a Name

LOCATION:

McIlwaine Park, Rhodes / Sydney / Australia

CLIENT:

City of Canada Bay Council + Sydney Water

DATE:

2015

DELIVERABLE:

  • Public art design, production and project management for:
  • Steel infrastructure kiosk vinyl wrap

PROCESS:

  • Historical research
  • Design
  • Photo- and vector-illustration
  • Production of print-ready artwork
  • Printing and fabrication supplier sourcing and liaison
  • Installation co-ordination

CONCEPT:

The men and women from Canada Bay who served in World War I were commemorated as part of the Centenary of ANZAC. Numbering over 1,600, these brave people lived all around Canada Bay, from Drummoyne to Rhodes and the suburbs in between. Some of their stories were told in videos created by students of local schools working with the City of Canada Bay Library Services as they learned more about the journey of these ANZAC servicemen and women.

Entitled More Than Just a Name, historical documents and photographs were brought to life in an effort to communicate the very real circumstances, concerns and emotions of individuals otherwise too easily concealed beneath the sands of time.

This theme was continued onto the surface of the Sydney Water infrastructure kiosk in McIlwaine Park, Rhodes, adjacent to Concord Road and the park's public toilets and picnic tables, as a reminder that the extraordinary people who served 100 years ago were also ordinary citizens of the local area.