City of Sydney Temporary Art Project
Posted in Events, Exhibition, News on November 2nd, 2009
Louisa Dawson, Unravel, Taylor Square, 2009
COFA staff and graduate, Louisa Dawson, in conjunction with the City of Sydney presents Unravel at Taylor Square. Unravel is a temporary public artwork which celebrates the history and skin of the city as it rolls out a section of road where Bourke Street once ran. Taylor Square was once one of the busiest intersections in Sydney, where the streets of Oxford, Flinders, Bourke and Forbes crossed. Bourke Street went directly to the
old tanneries near Mascot. In the late 1990s the Eastern Distributor was built and diverted all traffic heading east from the Harbour Bridge under Taylor Square. The sculpture reactivates the current pedestrian site of Taylor Square by suggesting a return to its previous state in a very simple way, by rolling out Bourke Street again.
The project is part of Taylor Suqare’s Plinth Project, which takes inspiration from London’s Fourth Plinth Project in Trafalgar Square London. COFA staff member Allan Giddy also has work included in the Taylor Square plinth Project.
“Oxford Street and its surrounds is an artistic and cultural hub. This public art program will engage the community and give new life to an under-used part of Taylor Square,” Lord Mayor Clover Moore MP said.
For more information on the Taylor Square Plinth Project please visit: http://www.cofa.unsw.edu.au/staff/news/news_0239.html
Where: Taylor Square, Darlinghurst NSW
When: The work is up for 4 months and will come down at the end of January 2010
