Witawartingga

Year: 2024
Location: Seacliff Plaza, SA
Dimensions:
3x Sculptural showers - H2.8m x W1.6m x D0.9m
Splashback - H1.4m x W3.6m
Materials: 316 Stainless steel

Working with First Nations artist Allan Sumner, these sculptural showers and patterned splashback tiles form an engaging and enduring public artwork, integrated throughout the new Seacliff Plaza redevelopment.

These artworks include detailing inspired by native peppermint box trees and interpretive elements of written language in both Kaurna and English, which enhance the traditional and modern connection to the land. The integration of these interpretive motifs celebrate and provide further reflection on naming and place. The artwork provides differing sight lines to highlight the configuration and interplay of the three forms creating a unique physical relationship that changes from the different approaches.

Artists & Collaborators:
Karl Meyer
First Nations artist Allan Sumner (collaborating artist)
Exhibition Studios
City of Holdfast Bay
ASPECT Studios
BluBuilt

Photography: Sam Roberts