Eastlink Sculpture Park Booklet
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To use EastLink you’ll need a tag, DISCOVER THE non-tag account or EastLink trip pass. MAGNIFICENT If you already have a tag it will work ARTWORKS OF on EastLink. Otherwise contact us before EASTLINK’S or up to three days after your trip and SCULPTURE PARK we’ll help you with your toll payment. EastLink.com.au Phone (03) 9955 1400 CE-MK-B-045 JULY 2017 CE-MK-B-045 JULY EastLink.com.au CONNECTING YOU WITH THE ARTS HEIDE GALLERY ARTLINK IS A UNIQUE CREATIVE ENDEAVOUR THAT EASTERN FWY CONNECTS THE ARTS ACROSS THE CITY, THROUGH MELBOURNE CBD AUSTRALIA’S LONGEST SCULPTURE PARK. C IT EASTLINK Y LINK Victoria has a proud history of supporting visual arts. Many of our world-renowned artists are showcased in and around our state’s capital, both within galleries and in public spaces. EastLink connects you to the arts by linking Melbourne’s city with Heide Museum of Modern Art, Monash Gallery, McClelland Gallery and live performances at Frankston Arts Centre. MONASH FWY MONASH GALLERY ArtLink guides you on a journey through the highlights of EastLink’s unique open-air sculpture park. From the comfort of your vehicle, you can discover significant pieces of sculpture by internationally recognised Australian artists. The four large-scale artworks (see pages 6 and 7) located on EastLink’s As you travel on EastLink, you can see four large-scale artworks (see roadside can be seen from your vehicle pages 6 to 7). The artists who created these pieces designed them to as you drive on the tollway. You must be viewed by moving motorists, so there is no provision for vehicles to not stop, or leave your vehicle while stop. You must not stop or exit your vehicle while travelling on EastLink. travelling on EastLink. A further eight A further eight sculptures (see pages 8 to 11) can be found adjacent sculptures (see pages 8 to 11) to the EastLink Trail – a pathway for cycling, running and walking. are adjacent to the EastLink Trail. EASTLINK McCLELLAND GALLERY Principal Partner of FRANKSTON ARTS CENTRE Frankston Arts Centre. See what’s on at 3 TheFAC.com.au Bell St Darebin Rd lestow CITYLINK p e Rd em BRUNSWICK T Reynolds Rd Darebin Rd ManninghamBULLEEN Rd Hereford Rd Melville Rd Oriel Rd Upr H’berg Rd LILYDALE Maribyrnong Rd King St NORTHCOTE Lwr H’berg Rd MAROONDAH HWY Warrandyte Rd St Georges Rd Sydney Rd Williamsons Rd Westgarth St DONCASTER Mooroolbark Rd Grange Rd Station St Doncaster S.C. EASTERN FWY Springvale Rd Clegg Rd Heidelberg Rd MOOROOLBARK Doncaster Rd Hull Rd Smithfield Rd Koonung Creek Trail Royal Pde Studley York Rd Park Rd Belmore Rd M KEW T RINGWOOD t Da Swansea Rd Dynon Rd UN ndeno NE Whitehorse Rd ng R Monbulk Rd LS d Nicholson St Princess St Mullum Mullum Footscray Cotham Rd Rd Hoddle St Creek Trail Victoria St Whitehorse Rd MELBOURNE BO HILL EastLink Trail Eastland S.C. Barkers Rd 5 Bridge Rd Station St Surrey Rd M Lorimer St Rd Wantirna 6 t Swan St . Canterbury Rd RINGWOOD EAST Canterbury Rd D Dorset Rd a NUNAWADING n S C M3 e d t I LINK Ki Y Bayswater Rd T K Riversdale Rd F n n e g il d o r s a r Ridge Rd n a W Camberwell Rd a g r y B s R Dandenong Creek Trail o S d Toorak Rd ueens Rd r T Williamstown Rd t o n o MT DANDENONG Beaconsfield Pde ia u Tooronga Rd BURWOOD Burke Rd r Canterbury Rd Punt Rd R d i Malvern Rd Mountain Hwy s t R d Elgar Rd High St Middleborough Rd Blackburn Rd Springvale Rd BURWOOD HWY Glenferrie Rd WANTIRNA Highbury Rd Wattletree Rd High St Warrigal Rd Knox 7 City S.C. Stud Rd Balaclava Rd M1 Rd High Street Rd Glen Eira Rd 8 Blind Creek Trail Caulfield Centro The Glen S.C. EASTLINK Racecourse Huntingdale Rd 9 NEPEAN HWY Cha dstone Stephensons CAULFIELD S.C. MT WAVERLEY Waverley Rd SCORESBY Rd 10 Jells Park Trail Network North Rd 11 M3 Grange M1 Ferntree Gully Rd 12 Rd OAKLEIGH Centro Brandon Monbulk Rd Park S.C. Kelletts Rd Belgrave-Gembrook Rd Jells Rd Jells Beach St Centre Rd ROWVILLE Warrigal Rd 1 Rd Rd Huntingdale Rd Wellington Rd Hampton East Boundary Old Dandenong Rd Police Rd Waverley To useJasper EastLink you’ll need a Gardens S.C. South Rd tag, non-tag account or EastLink CLAYTON PRINCES HWY Stud Rd Rd trip pass.MOORABBIN If you already have RacecourseSandown a tag it will work on EastLink. Bluff MONASH FWY BELGRAVE STH Otherwise contact us before Belgrave-Hallam Rd ENDEAVOUR HILLS Bayor Rd up to three days after Kingston Rd SPRINGVALE Dandenong Creek Trail Clayton Rd Jacksons Rd your trip and we’ll help Westall Rd Heatherton Rd Wellington Rd you with your toll Chestervillepayment. Rd Centre Dandenong Rd EastLink Trail Balcombe Rd THE EASTLINK COLLECTION THE EASTLINK COLLECTION Moorabbin Fothering Reserve Trail ARTWORK ON EASTLINK MOTORWAY SCULPTURE ON EASTLINK TRAIL Airport Beach Lower Dandenong Rd M3 Dandenong Plaza S.C. MENTONE M1 5 1 Ellipsoidal Freeway Sculpture ContemplationRd 1 Chelten ham Rd James Angus Ashika Ostapkowicz Chandler Rd 2 DANDENONG Public Art Strategy 6 Mysticeti 2007 KEYSBOROUGH 2 Dandenong Bypass Emily Floyd Alexander Knox Boundary Rd Governor Rd Springvale Rd 3 Hotel 7 Transfiguration Wind’ Viii Greens Rd Callum Morton Mitsuo Takeuchi MORDIALLOC EASTLINK Wells Rd 3 Desiring Machine 8 Ned M’TON PENIN. FWY Pound Rd 4 BERWICK Simeon Nelson Campbell Robertson-Swann Emereld Rd d BANGHOLME R ale 9 thv Reverent Numbers Edi Jos Van Hulsen NEPEAN HWY Beaconsfield – M3 STH GIPPSLAND HWY 10 Boy Looking Up Matt Calvert PRINCES HWY LYNDHURST 11 Red Rings Inge King Thompson Rd You must not stop Thompsons Rd or leave your vehicle 12 First Voyage McLeod Rd 5 while travelling on EastLink. Ashika Ostapkowicz 4 CARRUM M3 SANDHURST Frankston Rd WESTERN PORT HWY CRANBOURNE Seaford Rd Dandenong – Ballarto Rd Cranbourne Racecourse FRANKSTON NTH FRANKSTON FWY CLYDE Five Ways Rd FRANKSTON PENINSULA LINK Frankston Rd Frankston Visitor Clyde– Information Centre 2013) CRANBOURNE STH Frankston – Bayside S.C. Cranbourne – Flinders Rd Frankston Arts Centre (OPENING NEPEAN HWY LANGWARRIN 1 3 ELLIPSOIDAL FREEWAY SCULPTURE James Angus HOTEL Callum Morton The painted fibreglass and steel framework contains 24 ellipsoids, which Constructed of steel, concrete and glass, at 20 metres form a chain running 30 metres along the roadway. Each ellipsoid varies high Hotel is a large-scale model of a high-rise hotel. in size, shape and form between 1 and 3 metres in diameter. As the Positioned out of context, with no surrounding structures, viewer passes, the shapes appear to stretch from spheres into a string Melway 94 H6 / the artwork appears out of place, as if belonging to of ellipsoids. Painted in colours drawn from the surrounding native flora, EastLink northbound another time and place. Hotel is effectively a giant the artwork forms a series of lenses to view the surrounding landscape. carriageway between folly. Its generic form looks like a number of places Thompson Rd simultaneously, as if its identity is unstable and still Melway 81 D1 / EastLink northbound carriageway & Greens Rd moving, but never quite of this world. between Wellington Rd & Ferntree Gully Rd 2 4 PUBLIC ART STRATEGY Emily Floyd DESIRING MACHINE Simeon Nelson Standing 13 metres high, the painted steel sculpture depicts a giant black Desiring Machine lies as a fallen tree beside the roadway, putting bird ominously contemplating a worm. Drawing on aspects of the most new roots into the ground. Its silhouetted filigree lies like a decaying famous outdoor sculptures, the piece describes Melbourne through its piece of obsolete agricultural machine, a relic of the human struggle public art. Bruce Armstrong’s Eagle, DCM’s Melbourne Gateway, Inge to co-exist with nature. Designed using a Victorian floral motif, the King’s Forward Surge, Clement Meadmore’s Dervish, Peter Cortlett’s branch-like stems are mechanical and perfectly symmetrical rendering Tarax Play Sculpture and Ron Robertson Swann’s Vault are all referenced them unnatural. This opposition of nature and machines describes in Public Art Strategy. our desire to control nature. Melway 89 J10 / EastLink southbound carriageway Melway 98 D10 / EastLink northbound between Cheltenham Rd & Dandenong Bypass carriageway between Frankston Fwy & Thompson Rd 7 ARTWORK ON EASTLINK MOTORWAY 5 7 CONTEMPLATION 1 Ashika Ostapkowicz TRANSFIGURATION ‘WIND’ VIII Mitsuo Takeuchi Contemplation 1 is a sculptural seat carved In the sculpture Transfiguration, the artist Mitsuo Takeuchi exploits from granite. Standing 70 centimetres high, many of the useful and attractive qualities of steel in the piece’s 55 centimetres wide and 3.3 metres long, construction. Standing just over three metres high, Transfiguration the artwork expresses a close relationship is a strong, yet delicate, steel curved artwork. The artist describes with nature. the artwork as an experiment in which he is expressing the concepts of position and visible topologies as one substance. Melway 49 F7 / EastLink exit Maroondah Hwy EastLink Trail, near Ringwood Bypass Melway 63 D10 / EastLink exit Burwood Hwy South of Burwood Hwy, near the EastLink Trail NED 6 8 Campbell Robertson-Swann MYSTICETI 2007 Alexander Knox Ned captures the image of the Mysticeti 2007 is made from galvanised steel famous outlaw Ned Kelly, made and reaches approximately 4 metres high. popular by Sidney Nolan over the This piece continues Alexander Knox’s exploration last 60 years. Fabricated in steel, of the built ruin. The word mysticeti refers to the the piece stands 2.8 metres high. class of whalebone depicted in the sculpture.