Two new sculptures will appear in the new Braybrook Hub early next year after Maribyrnong council announced the two successful projects.
Twenty submissions were whittled down to a shortlist of nine before TRUC and Pollyanna’s Egg were announced as the council’s preferred artworks.
TRUC by Jonathan Leahey and David Burrows, costing $105,000, features two rotating six-metre figures with video cameras and screens that can be viewed in place or via mobile phones or the internet.
The $40,000 Pollyanna’s Egg by Archinauts is inspired by the children’s book Pollyanna’s Egg, itself inspired by the true story of 12-year-old Braybrook resident Trena Telford and her pet goose, Pollyanna, who appeared in a photo in the former Argus newspaper in August 1956.
The artwork is a large recycled timber goose egg above a “nest” of long, grassy plants.
The egg’s hollow centre will contain a weatherproof time capsule.
Maribyrnong mayor Grant Miles said the council’s public art strategy aimed to enliven public spaces.
“We chose these two artworks as we wanted the community to experience fun, interactive and safe public art pieces,” he said.
“Having these large and small-scale artworks will contribute to the Revitalising Braybrook project, and will help make the redeveloped Braybrook Hub [in Churchill Avenue] a centre of the community.”
