Creative concrete

Artworks

BADABABABABBAT-DA by Tegan Wotton

Steadily feeling like the pixels build and are never not in front of me... another one to see, to be distracted by. A complex electronic place now, this is my simple space – the nineties. That’s when pixels were easier to absorb, easier to see, easier to commit to. Platform Mario and coin collections, fighting over the only two controllers in the house just to get in front of a pixel — ping / ping / ping / dat dat dat da da da, da da da da da dat dat dat da da... pixel, jump, coin, collect, restart.

In the future…I want to be a unicorn by Alphabet Studio
 

Midnight Zoo by Studio A artists Emily Crockford, Lauren Kerjan, Thom Roberts and Phillip Sidney

Midnight Zoo is inspired by visits to Taronga Zoo. The work is a homage to the diverse and mesmerising species that populate our city and our world. Midnight Zoo brings these often hidden, and sadly endangered creatures to the centre of our city. The hoarding design cheekily plays with the relationship between seen and unseen, viewer and viewed. It’s typically people who peer at animals in a zoo. But here, the animals look out at pedestrians and passers-by.

Giant Bonsai by Garry Trinh

Garry Trinh creates works about daily encounters with people and objects on the periphery. These giant bonsai trees were photographed all over Sydney. They seem to magically appear overnight, created by someone with a giant pair of shears.

Magic Circles by Kieran Butler
 

Time Forms by Lisa Sammut

Ngaarr by Lucy Simpson

Ngaarr = hard / strong. This is a story of presence and strength by Yuwaalaraay designer Lucy Simpson. Derived from the patterning of the inner bark of a gulabaa (eucalypt tree), these designs highlight the conversation about care of country. They speak of contemporary Aboriginal experience and presence, and highlight the importance of First Nations placemaking in the built environment. Bold and graphic, this series of temporal / seasonal moments serves to remind us of the power of place, telling and recording a long story of resilience. This project is a proud collaboration between Gaawaa Miyay and Think Positive Prints

Suspended Figures by Prudence Stent and Honey Long

This series of shrouded figures playfully distorts the human form, creating a dream-like landscape intended to interrupt everyday thoughts and spark the imagination. The fluid and abstract shapes – created by the body interacting with fabric and wind – are left open for the viewer to make their own associations. The figures convey an underlying sense of struggle and liberation as the subjects attempt to break from their human form and connect to their greater surroundings.

Koala Fantastical Fabulous Fun by Rosie Deacon

Koala Fantastical Fabulous Fun lends itself to the everyday Australian experience and how contemporary art can create transformative moments in time, altering the way we see the world. Australiana memorabilia and souvenirs are used to explore what it could mean to be an icon of the Australian wild. I have an obsession with animal imagery made horrifyingly unfamiliar, transforming our natural inhabitants into a spectacularly camp pastiche of faux fur and perennial pride.

Unvanished by Kent Morris

Kent Morris is a Barkindji man, whose art practice reveals the continuing presence and patterns of Aboriginal history and culture in the contemporary Australian landscape The shapes and structures of the built environment are being reimagined to reflect long standing knowledge systems and to reaffirm cultural continuity and presence. The interaction of native birds and the built environment represents continual changes to ecological systems. Just as birds have adapted to the built environment, technology and colonialism, Indigenous cultures adapt and survive.