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Lisa Young Island Wave 
Positioned around  the centre of  a traffic roundabout.


Each element of this sculpture stands alone but is read as a unit.

Lisa Young 

Lisa Young's beautiful new sculpture, Island Wave,  in the downtown area of Melbourne  at  the Queen Street - Franklin Street Roundabout close to the world famous Victoria Market. [Fresh Produce Market].

Lisa's sculpture echoes the circular flow of traffic as it speeds around a roundabout, presenting a continually changing curved profile of  arabesques in white-painted steel. This sculpture plays with well-accepted  mid to late twentieth century conventions of sculpture, being a large scale abstract construction in metal. However its graceful forms recall older more decorative visions of the streetscape, reminiscent of the Victorian era. It also evokes questions of form and decoration, male and female.

Island Wave was officially launched onsite on
28 October 2003 Commissioned by the City of Melbourne


 




Lisa Young Curlicue 2002 
 


Made in a continuous piece



EARLIER SIMILAR SCULPTURE 
by Lisa Young

Outside the Monash Gallery of Art 
170 Jells Rd, Wheelers Hill 3150

This  smaller scale  sculpture differs from the Wave with 
each motif being  joined to the next to make a continous unit of steel.

 

Some written by Dr Juliette Peers and photography &  web site by ER
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