Thursday 8 September 2011

Botanic Gardens, Wurrungwuri

Wurrungwuri” is a sculpture created by Chris Booth at the Royal Botanic Gardens and unveiled in 2011. The Aboriginal name, Wurrungwuri, means “this side - on this side of the water”. The sculpture consists of two parts. This part is built from 16,000 threaded quartz pebbles, in the pattern of a rare Aboriginal Shield, the "Sydney Shield", after gaining permission from Allen Madden on behalf of the Cadigal people. The Johnson Estate Sculpture was a gift to Sydney by a keen art lover, who committed the bulk of his estate for a sculpture overlooking Sydney Harbour.

13 comments:

  1. It's really wonderful, the other part too.

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  2. Thank you for sharing and teaching me something.

    Please have a good Thursday.


    daily athens

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  3. That is a great looking piece of sculpture. I think it is great that the BG's are getting lots more art/sculpture

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  4. I have completely missed this - nice photo and story.

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  5. Joe, actually this part of the sculpture is hollow and is also a habitat for endangered micro-bats. You can probably see the slit where they enter.

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  6. The two pieces are so different Jim, I noticed the slit in this one, such a good idea to offer a possible safe place for the micro bats, I wonder if they use it?

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  7. PerthDailyPhoto, a newspaper reported that they do use it but I'll have to have a closer look next time I'm there.

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