Artworks on campus are a rather ominous mainstay of our University; an omnipresent monolith we engage with inside every building, hallway, street and alcove.
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A micro-forest of 30 species of critically endangered eastern suburbs banksia scrub has been unveiled, one of four artworks installed by the City of Sydney to reactivate some of the city s near-deserted laneways.
Four artists have been granted up to $50,000 to create artworks to enliven people s experience of the CBD during the Sydney Festival and in time for the post-lockdown return of workers.
Caroline Rothwell with Vivienne Webb (right) and Floria Tosca (left) of the Dirt Witch collective.
Credit:Steven Siewert
Installed last week, the experiential artworks will be in place for six months until July.
That will be time enough for 11 banksia trees to mature in the new Barlow Street forest, the kangaroo apple shrubs to flower, and the beehives to store the pollen collected by the sugarbag stingless native bees that have supped on the biodiverse pocket.