Friday 15 October 2010

King Edward VII, Sydney Statues: Project!

This bronze sculpture of King Edward VII on horseback stands on a traffic island at the intersection of Conservatorium Road and Macquarie Street. It is close to the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and the Royal Botanic Gardens. The statue has been dressed up for the Sydney Statues: Project! as part of the Art & About Sydney festival. A photo of the statue at other times can be seen here.

36 comments:

  1. What a delightful statue! Love his costume! And you do have the bluest of blue skies!! Awesome capture for the day, Jim! Hope you have a wonderful weekend!

    Sylvia

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  2. You do have clear blue skies. Not too often do we have such clear skies, always seem to have clouds somewhere (even though we are the sunshine state). We are sunny but with clouds!

    Nice shot, I like the angle to get a look at the blue sky!

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  3. What a great idea! I have never seen statues dressed up.

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  4. Oh dear, even the horse got leggings! Great capture against that blue sky, Jim.

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  5. Ohhhhh, la statua di re Edward รจ molto bella.... rappresenta un'epoca passata... ma le calze colorate del cavallo sono decisamente fantastiche !
    Dove sono state comperate ?
    Ah ah ah buona serata :))
    Myriam

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  6. I love how the artist has caught the energy of the horse and especially the movement in the main.

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  7. the horse has socks! neat capture.

    www.ewok1993.wordpress.com

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  8. The picture makes me smile. Funny to see a statue dressed up.

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  9. What a wonderful clear blue sky again.
    Funny to see how the horse is dressed too. :-)
    Enjoy your weekend!

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  10. Hiya,
    What a fun idea to spruce up a statue with a bit of colour like that. Was that knitted bridge I saw in anothr blog also in your neck of the woods?

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  11. morememes, I haven't seen a knitted bridge in Sydney. You've got me intrigued.

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  12. Ace! It reminds me of when guerrilla knitters hit Brisbane earlier in the year.

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  13. Thanks, cara. The knitters in Brisbane is probably what morememes was talking about.

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  14. Nice to see it "keeps up with time". Made it friendly a sight.

    Please have a good and peaceful Friday.


    daily athens

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  15. The blue sky in the background is a beautiful blue. Also I like the horses socks. Someone has a sense of humor.

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  16. Gotta love those socks on the horse, while wondering how they were put on.
    Love the blue sky, too.

    Kay, Alberta

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  17. What fun. Almost all statues get drab after a while. Nice idea to dress them up for a short while.

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  18. Quite an elaborate dress, and I love the blue sky, something we never see enough of.
    Have a happy week-end
    B.

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  19. I love this idea of dressing the statues. Thanks for sharing.

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  20. What a fun statue all dressed up against the brilliant blue sky.

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  21. Such an Amazing thing to do!!!!



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  22. Great post Jim. Never get the chance myself to come close and personal, let alone take a photo of it, yet.

    I like your new template.

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  23. It looks wonderful with those colourful clothes on!

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  24. amazing statues! the blue sky is a perfect canvas.

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  25. Que interessante e criativo adornar as estรกtuas para um dia especial! O tempo colaborou com este magnรญfico cenรกrio azul, lindo!

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  26. They must have had such fun with dressing all these statues ... I reckon the clothes and style are just great.

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  27. For a shorter time it's quite OK; fun idea :-D

    Great SWF!

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  28. interesting with dressed up statues! they would need that soon in Sweden ;-)

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  29. I have seen statues dressed up in Brussels. To be exact there's a statue of a little boy, the symbol of Brussels in a variety of outfits.

    Loving your photography.
    Betty

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  30. Wow, great capture of the statue with the blue sky in the background. Love it.

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