Bronte, Waverley Cemetery

Waverley Cemetery is located in St Thomas Street, in the eastern suburb of Bronte. This is one of the more prominent monuments close to the cliff, overlooking the Pacific Ocean. The first interment took place here in 1877.
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Waterloo, mural

This mural has been painted on the back of a former industrial building facing Broome Street, that fronts South Dowling Street, in the inner city suburb of Waterloo. This part of the suburb has been gentrified in recent years with high rise apartments, shops, restaurants, cares and landscaped public spaces replacing many industrial and warehouse buildings. The mural was painted by Michiel Dolk and Jeff Stewart in 1980, on this building that was part of the former ACI Glassworks. Along with the old industrial equipment in the courtyard, they pay homage to the industrial past of the suburb.

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Anzac Bridge, twilight

The Anzac Bridge is seen here reflected in Rozelle Bay at twilight. This view is from the edge of Blackwattle Bay Park in the inner west suburb of Glebe. In the distance are the Sydney Harbour  Bridge and the Sydney skyline including Sydney Tower.

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Blackwattle Bay

The Sydney skyline at night behind the inner city suburb of Pyrmont is seen here reflected in Blackwattle Bay. This view was from Blackwattle Bay Park in the inner west suburb of Glebe.

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Rozelle Bay

This view across Rozelle Bay towards the inner west suburb of Rozelle is from the edge of Blackwattle Bay Park in Glebe. The sunset colours, boats in the bay and cranes on shore provide some wonderful reflections.

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Centennial Park, cannon

This is one of two Crimean War Cannons located in Centennial Park, in the eastern suburbs. They are a memorial for the Crimean War in 1854 and were donated to Centennial Park by the Royal Botanic Gardens. They were placed there in 1920 to revitalise an area which had been neglected.

Centennial Park, Duck Pond

These boardwalks stand over Duck Pond in Centennial Park, in the eastern suburbs. The 189 hectare park was dedicated in 1888 to celebrate the centenary of European settlement in Australia. This grand park in the Victorian period tradition features formal gardens, ponds, grand avenues, statues, historic buildings and sporting fields.

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Centennial Park, Charles Dickens

This marble statue of English novelist Charles Dickens is located close to the junction of Dickens Drive and Loch Avenue in Centennial Park. It is one of eleven statues acquired as decoration for the new park created in 1988 and was installed in 1891. Most of the remaining statues in the park, including this statue, were removed in 1972 and placed in storage. It had gone missing and in the process had lost its head and other parts due to vandalism. When finally found, the head, finger, scroll and quill had to be reconstructed using old photos and the statue. The restored statue was unveiled for the 199th birthday of Dickens last year and was again honoured last week with 200th birthday celebrations. It is one of only two known life-size representations of Charles Dickens in the world due to an injunction in his will requesting that no public memorials be erected in his honour.

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Ultimo, Aspire

“Aspire” is a permanent artwork created by Warren Langley in the inner city suburb of Ultimo. The glowing golden forest of trees illuminates an ugly site beneath the Western Distributor freeway flyovers, near the corner of Bulwarra Road and Fig Street.

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Sydney Harbour Bridge, railway line

A view of the railway line that runs from Wynyard, north to Milsons Point, across the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
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Surry Hills, Davoren Lane

This warehouse building is located in Davoren Lane, off Foveaux Street, in the inner city suburb of Surry Hills. The imaginative graffiti has appeared recently on the side wall, incorporting the external fire escape stairs. It depicts burglars dressed in black with balaclavas on their heads, carrying their loot down the stairs into an awaiting van.

Millers Point, Gas Lane

This view is from Gas Lane, off Kent Street, in the inner city suburb of Millers Point. The heritage sandstone building along Jenkins Street is the former Australian Gaslight Company. The laneway name comes from the former Millers Point Gas Works which once stood along the shore of Darling Harbour which can be seen here stretching to the inner west suburb of Balmain.

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Surry Hills, Children's Court

The former Children's Court on the corner of Albion Street and Commonwealth Street, in the inner city suburb of Surry Hills. It was designed by Walter Liberty Vernon in the Federation Academic Classical architectural style and built in 1911. The first separate Children's Court was held in Ormond House at Paddington from 1905 until 1911, when it moved to this specifically built court building. It has ben heritage listed for its impact on girls and boys affected by the juvenile justice system between 1911 and 1983. The building has since been used by the Sydney City Mission and a range of community organisations.

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Waterloo, stairs and fountain

This cascading fountain is in the centre of a stairway that leads up from Potter Street to Crown Park, in the inner city suburb of Waterloo. This part of the suburb has been gentrified in recent years with high rise apartments, shops, restaurants, cafes and landscaped public spaces replacing many industrial and warehouse buildings.

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Matraville, Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park

This folly is located in the garden outside the art deco style Crematorium West Chapel at the Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park, in the eastern suburb of Matraville.
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Skittle Lane, peri(pheral)scopes

Skittle Lane is a city lane that features "peri(pheral)scopes: looking over the over-looked" for Laneway Art, as part of the Art and About Sydney festival. The artwork, designed by Heidi Axelsen, Hugo Moline and Adriano Pupilli, consists of rogue ductwork grafted onto the drainpipes and walls of buildings. The four peri(pheral)scopes are optical devices that show recorded views of Sydney's western suburbs. The name of Skittle Lane came from its history, located between two pubs. It was where wharfies and soldiers once enjoyed beer and skittles, a form of bowling. This is my last look at this year's laneway artworks.

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Anzac Bridge, night

The Anzac Bridge at night, viewed from the edge of Blackwattle Bay Park in the inner west suburb of Glebe, with lights reflected in Rozelle Bay. The Sydney Harbour Bridge can also be seen in the distance.

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Bulletin Place, Bubbleway

Bulletin Place is a city lane that hosts "Bubbleway", which is a modular, inflatable social furniture system designed by Rebar for Laneway Art, as part of the Art and About Sydney festival. It asks us to rethink our notions of public space and discover new forms of informal social interactions, creativity and play in a heavily encoded cosmopolitan centre.

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Tank Stream Way, street art

Tank Stream Way is a city laneway that features this temporary Laneway Art as part of the annual Art and About Sydney festival. The side of the Thai Airways International building has been used as a canvas for this "tag wall" or street art by Barry McGee. It has stirred up controversy after the artist was given permission to paint graffiti art on a certain wall along Tank Stream Way but also painted graffiti tags on this wall. The City of Sydney council, which produced this event, has been accused of encouraging vandalism. The shadows and light reflected from the office building opposite add some texture to this shot.

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Market Row, Deconstructing Ways

The intersection of Market Row and Mullins Street features temporary Laneway Art as part of the Art and About Sydney festival. "Deconstructing Ways" by Isidro Blasco gives an impression of another laneway, providing an alternative option.

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Queen Victoria Building, Lunar New Year (Theme Day: Animals)

This giant dragon decoration and Chinese lanterns hang in the Queen Victoria Building to celebrate Chinese New Year, which this year is the Year of the Dragon. Celebrations for the Lunar New Year seem to be getting bigger every year in Sydney with more shopping centres and businesses getting involved with decorations. 

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Bridge Lane, ambulance

Bridge Lane is a very narrow lane off Bridge Street which doesn't allow for parking, so this ambulance parked close to the entrance of the Establishment Hotel and "Donut" artwork, must have been attending an emergency.

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Tank Stream Way, street art

Tank Stream Way is a city laneway that hosts temporary artwork for the annual Laneway Art as part of the Art and About Sydney festival. The back of the Thai Airways International building, including windows and doors, has been used as a canvas for a piece of street art or graffiti art by Barry McGee which is described as "Untitled", but I believe it says "aMAzE".

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Pyrmont Bridge

Pyrmont Bridge crosses Cockle Bay at Darling Harbour and connects the inner city suburb of Pyrmont with the Sydney central business district. The swing bridge was opened in 1902 but has been a pedestrian bridge since 1988. It also carries an elevated monorail track which remains stationary so that the monorails can cross even when the bridge swings open for large boats. A Sydney Monorail can be seen here crossing the bridge, heading towards Harbourside station at Darling Harbour.

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Bridge Lane, Donut

Bridge Lane currently features temporary Laneway Art as part of the Art and About Sydney festival. "Donut" is a sculpture by Brook Andrew which is a large inflated PVC form in the shape of a doughnut, hanging high above the lane.The striking black and white matrix is an indigenous Wiradjuri design. The shape references ancient European and Indigenous depictions of time travel and healing, and the popular contemporary notion of a ‘pie in the sky’. At the end of the laneway, is a glimpse of another piece of art, in Tank Stream Way. "Untitled" is a piece of street art or graffiti art by Barry McGee.

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Museum of Sydney, Edge of the Trees

"Edge of the Trees" is a permanent sculpture at First Government House Place, the forecourt of the Museum of Sydney. It was commissioned especially for this site in 1995 and created by Janet Laurence and Fiona Foley, an indigenous artist and a non-indigenous artist, working together. It evokes the cultural and physical history of the site, before and after 1788, when contact and colonisation took place. The name of the sculpture comes from the 1985 essay by historian Rhys Jones: "…the 'discoverer' struggling through the surf were met on the beaches by other people looking at them from the edge of the trees." It consists of 29 large pillars of sandstone, wood and steel, which correspond to the 29 Aboriginal clans from around Sydney. The materials have been recycled from lost buildings in the city with historical references carved, burnt or engraved upon them and various artefacts embedded in windows within. When you walk amongst the pillars, you can hear a soundscape of indigenous voices reciting the names of places in the Sydney region.

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Museum of Sydney

The Museum of Sydney is located on the corner Phillip Street and Bridge Street.  The museum is built on the ruins of Australia's first Government House, the house of Australia's first governor-general, Governor Arthur Phillip. It was built in 1788 and exposed by archaeologists in the 1980s before this museum was built. The museum explores colonial and contemporary Sydney through objects, pictures and digital media techniques. The raised metal lettering of the "Museum of Sydney" sign creates a shadow on the sandstone facade. The "Surf City" banner is for the surfing culture exhibition currently at the museum.

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Museum of Sydney, Tides Turn

"Tides Turn" is a sculpture created by Peter Collins, currently located in the forecourt of the Museum of Sydney. It depicts a surging wave and is constructed from Eucalyptus sticks and steel mesh. It is part of "Surf City", an exhibition currently at the museum that shows how the surfing culture and waxheads at beaches have influenced Sydney. This sculpture was originally displayed at the "Sculpture by the Sea" exhibition in 2010 at Bondi Beach. 

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Bexley, Uniting Church

The Bexley Uniting Church is located in Gladstone Street, in the southern suburb of Bexley. It was built in 1925 in the Federation architectural style and has been heritage listed for its aesthetic significance as an unusual architectural church design. It was originally a Methodist Church until the Uniting Church in Australia was formed in 1977.

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Bexley, house

"Dunvegan" is a historic house located off Harrow Road, in the southern suburb of Bexley. This mansion was built in the late 19th century in the Victorian Italianate architectural style. It has been somewhat altered with the removal of an upper storey veranda but retains most of its original features. It was once part of a large estate which fronted Albyn Street and has now been incorporated into the Scalabrini Village, a retirement village formed in 1969 by the Scalabrinian Fathers, an Italian missionary order.

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Barangaroo, warehouse

This former warehouse is located along Hickson Road in the inner city suburb of Barangaroo. It is located opposite land which was once part of Sydney's port facilities and is now being redeveloped. This part of Hickson Road is also known as The Hungry Mile, which originated during the Great Depession. It came from harbourside workers lined up along the road opposite the wharves as foremen chose the casual labourers for the day and those without work were often left hungry.

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Garden Island, Southern Surveyor

The Southern Surveyor is a ship used by marine scientists to explore and study Australia's oceans. It is operated by the CSIRO, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia's national science and research agency. It is seen here moored in Woolloomooloo Bay at Garden Island, located in the eastern suburb of Potts Point. The island is a major marine engineering and refit centre for the Royal Australian Navy and Thales Australia.

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Woolloomooloo and Darlinghurst

A view of the inner city suburb of Woolloomooloo stretching back to Darlinghurst. In the foreground are two pubs, the Woolloomooloo Bay Hotel and The Bells Hotel. In the distance, the tallest buildings are the The Elan and Millennium apartment towers at Kings Cross and the Horizon Apartments tower at Darlinghurst.

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Newtown, graffiti art

This graffiti art is on the back wall of the Botany View Hotel in the inner city suburb of Newtown. The hotel is located on the corner of King Street and Darley Street, with this back view from Maria Lane. Many businesses in Newtown whose walls had been targets of ugly graffiti have commissioned graffiti artists to cover those walls with their artwork. It seems to have worked in this case because the artwork or other walls of the hotel haven't been defaced since.

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Hyde Park, Archibald Fountain

The Archibald Fountain is a magnificent art deco style fountain located in Hyde Park. It was designed by French artist Francois Sicard and unveiled on 14 March 1932. It features mythological characters of ancient Greece. On one of the granite plinths radiating from the central pedestal is a bronze sculpture of Theseus slaying the Minotaur which represents the sacrifice for the good of humanity. Over the last three weeks, I featured the sculpture of Apollo from the central plinth along with the sculptures of Artemis and Jason from the other granite plinths radiating from the central pedestal.
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Annandale, Bicentennial Park

This curious structure was recently temporarily located in Bicentennial Park in inner west suburb of Annandale. From a distance I thought it was some sort of contemporary sculpture but as I approached it, I realised it was actually a stage used for some summer performances in the park. Any performer on that stage would not only be competing with the abstract shapes attached to the back of the stage but also the spectacular backdrop of Rozelle Bay, the Anzac Bridge and the artwork on the silos at Rozelle.

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Annandale, St Brendan's Catholic Church

St Brendan's Catholic Church is located along Collins Street in the inner west suburb of Annandale. It was built in 1898 in the Federation Arts and Crafts architectural style.

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Annandale, viaduct

This viaduct is located at the back of Bicentennial Park, in the inner west suburb of Annandale. The viaduct was built in 1922 to carry the freight railway line between the Darling Harbour and Rozelle Goods Yards. It now carries the Metro Light Rail line, a tram between Central railway station and Lilyfield. The writing on the brick wall is not graffiti but a dog memorial wall. The dogs are commemorated with photographs, names and quotes at a place where dogs and their owners congregate.

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Circular Quay

A view of Circular Quay ferry wharves, Circular Quay railway station and the city skyline rising behind them.

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Citigroup Centre

The Citigroup Centre building is located on Park Street, between George Street and Pitt Street. Built in 2000, it measures 243 metres to the top of the spire and is the tallest skyscraper in Sydney, although Sydney Tower is still the tallest structure. The Citigroup Centre building contains 41 levels of office space and The Galleries, retail space on 4 levels. It also has underground connections to Town Hall railway station and the Queen Victoria Building. The Food Hall on the lower ground level has recently been refurbished and resembles a nightclub rather than a food court, which seems to be the trend lately.

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Sydney Hospital, Il Porcellino

Il Porcellino is a bronze sculpture and fountain which sits outside the North Wing of 

Sydney Hospital, along Macquarie Street. The original Il Porcellino is on display in the Museo Bardini in Florence, Italy. A copy also stands in the Mercato Nuovo or Straw Market, in that city. This copy was presented to the hospital in 1968 by the Marchessa Clarissa Torrigiani in memory of her father and brother, both renowned surgeons at the hospital. The legend of rubbing the snout of Il Porcellino for good luck, provides a polished sheen.

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Hyde Park, Archibald Fountain

The Archibald Fountain is a magnificent art deco style fountain located in Hyde Park. It was designed by French artist Francois Sicard and unveiled on 14 March 1932. It features mythological characters of ancient Greece. On one of the granite plinths radiating from the central pedestal is a bronze sculpture of Jason with the Golden Fleece and the good things of the earth. Over the last two weeks, I featured the sculpture of Apollo from the central plinth and the sculpture of Artemis from another granite plinth radiating from the central pedestal.

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Ashfield, warehouse

This warehouse is located on the corner of Parramatta Road and Frederick Street, in the inner west suburb of Ashfield. It was originally the Peak Freens biscuit factory that produced Vita-Weat cracker biscuits, later taken over by Arnott's Biscuits. It has now been converted to Bunnings Warehouse, a hardware warehouse chain. The old factory building had been painted in pastel colours, most recently cream, which suited the art deco style. It's good that this building with the great clock tower has found a new use but it hasn't quite been the same since it adopted the corporate colour scheme of the hardware chain.

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Double Bay, Golden Sheaf Hotel

The Golden Sheaf Hotel is located on New South Head Road in the eastern suburb of Double Bay. This heritage-listed pub was built in 1936 in the art deco style. Its four bars and a rear beer garden were refurbished in 2009. 

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Double Bay, council chambers

This historic building is the headquarters for Woollahra Municipal Council, located on New South Head Road, in the eastern suburb of Double Bay. This building was Redleaf, a Victorian Italianate mansion overlooking Sydney Harbour, designed by the architect George Allen Mansfield and completed in 1863. It became the local government council chambers in 1947. The adjoining Redleaf Pool is named after the mansion.

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Double Bay, wharf

This private wharf is located on Sydney Harbour, in the eastern suburb of Double Bay. It's for exclusive use by the residents of the nearby harbourside houses and apartments. This was viewed from the boardwalk around Redleaf Pool.

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Sydney Harbour

This brilliant blue sky above Sydney Harbour was viewed from the viewing platform above Circular Quay railway station, beside the Cahill Expressway. The view stretches from the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Overseas Passenger Terminal across to the Sydney Opera House. A ferry has just departed from Circular Quay ferry wharves heading towards Kirribilli, on the north shore.

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Botanic Gardens, Summer

'Summer' is a Victorian era sculpture located in the Royal Botanic Gardens. This is one of the 'Four Seasons' statues that adorn the Palace Gardens Steps. They came from Italy in 1883 from the studio of Charles Francis Summers, an Australian-born sculptor living in Rome. The steps were their original location but later they were separated and distributed around the gardens, where some lost vital body parts and adornments. They were restored by Australian sculptor Jacek Luszczyk who recreated missing parts. The restored statues were unveiled in their original location in 2010. 'Spring' and 'Summer' are located at the top of the steps, with 'Autumn' and 'Winter' located at the bottom.

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Hyde Park, Archibald Fountain

The Archibald Fountain is a magnificent art deco style fountain located in Hyde Park. It was designed by French artist Francois Sicard and unveiled on 14 March 1932. It features mythological characters of ancient Greece. On one of the granite plinths radiating from the central pedestal is a bronze sculpture of Artemis, the goddess of the wilderness, the hunt, wild animals and fertility. She is depicted here with a bow, a deer and hunting dogs. Last week, I featured the bronze sculpture of Apollo that stands on the central granite pedestal with more information about the fountain here.

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