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Interview with Howard Taylor | Biography | POW | Bickley & Northcliffe | Public Art |
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Fremantle | University of Western Australia | Curtin University of Technology |
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Because people are the truth and vitality of the city, they deserve to share the external merits of old and new city buildings, the collective backdrop against which they congregate. There are in Perth some recent buildings which carry, as part of their overall concepts, artistic accompaniments for public enjoyment…. St Georges Square is the formal name for the forecourt in front of the AMP Tower nearing completion … the forecourt…will carry an impressive creation by prominent WA sculptor, Howard Taylor. Two charcoal coloured forms 4.57 metres high weighing nearly 80 tons will stand protectively outside a charcoal- coloured circle set into semi-polished, grey hexagonal slabs…beside the symbolic circle of life will be a ‘black stump’. The stump, serving also as a seat, will link the Aboriginal tradition of meeting place with the flow of people who will use the open space. Murray Mason, The West Australian 31 August 1974, p66. Original located in the AMP Tower forecourt Perth, the work was relocated to its present site in the University of Western Australia campus in 1990. |
