Auburn is home to around 660 people, many of whom are both wine and art lovers alike.
Its residents included the late Alan Farwell, a popular local identity whose generous involvement in the community has now extended beyond his own life through a substantial bequest for the sole purpose of establishing a southern gateway statement for the town he loved.
So in 2017, a group of local volunteers was tasked with creating the kind of entrance statement piece of which Alan, former chair of the Independent Arts Foundation, would be proud.
Award winning Adelaide artist Craige Andrae was engaged, the local community consulted and fittingly, the result is an artistic sculptural piece that is large in scale, curiously unconventional and unmistakably Auburnesque, just like Alan.