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Artist: Chris Nixon
Year of Work: 2012
Location: 1 Salvado road
Asset Type: Painting
Provenance: Subiaco
Decommissioned Status: Decommissioned 2021 and replaced by new work
Description: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=eLBIJxVhlEQ
Commissioned by the Ear Science Institute as part of their campaign "Cheers for Ears" to encourage young people to look after their hearing.
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Artist: Ever (Argentina) Gaia (NYC)
Year of Work: 2014
Location: West Leederville Station underpass
Asset Type: Painting
Provenance: Subiaco
Decommissioned Status: 2021 June
Description: This work is a collaboration between artists Ever and Gaia, and was commissioned as part of PUBLIC. PUBLIC is a celebration of urban art and creativity. Whilst both artists worked over the whole area of the underpass, the colorful artwork is typical of Ever's artwork. Ever is a former graffiti writer who began painting in the streets of Buenos Aires in the 1990's.He believes that revolutions are told on walls and that graffiti is a point of connection for people. The monochromatic art is aligned with the works of GAIA, a self proclaimed "skinny white kid" from the Upper East Side. He is currently based in Brooklyn and partly in Baltimore. He paints under the name of the Greek earth goddess, reflecting his preoccupation with the idea that the earth is an organism. Commissioned by the City of Subiaco in partnership with Perth Transport Authority and FORM
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Artist: Darren Hutchens,
Year of Work: 2013
Location: Junction of Roberts and Railway Road
Asset Type: Painting
Provenance: Subiaco
Decommissioned Status: Being replaced in 2020
Description: Darren worked with the Subiaco Voice of Youth Group to determine the theme, wild life night and day of Subiaco, The Parks team provided a list of fauna that visits Subiaco, including the Rainbow Bee Eater, the bat, the frog
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Artist: George Haynes
Year of Work: 1995
Location: Subiaco Oval
Asset Type: Paintings
Provenance: Subiaco
Decommissioned Status: 2018 - Good condition, however this work will be destroyed when the grandstand is demolished in 2019.
Description: In the year of the Fremantle Dockers set-up - there was debate about whether this artwork should depict all Eagles, or some Dockers. The solution was to include some historic players in period costume, who are all recognisable heroes. George Haynes painted the football legends onto cut-out boards in his studio. This experience proved to be the inspiration behind George’s well-known series of threedimensional anamorphic sculptures.
Born in Kenya and brought up in the United Kingdom, artist and lecturer George Haynes has exhibited consistently since arriving in
Australia in 1962. A regular exhibitor in Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, George received
an Artsource Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010 and his works can be found in all the major Australian public, university and private collections. The commission was arranged by Sue Crowdace, interior designer and wife of the architect Michael Crowdace.
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Artist: David Gregson
Year of Work: 1995
Location: Subiaco Oval
Asset Type: Mural
Provenance: Subiaco
Decommissioned Status: 2018 - Good condition, however the grandstand is due for demolition in 2019.
Description: Footballers leap, sprint, dive and tackle their way across the wall; full of energy and life. The thirty metre long mural is painted directly onto a concrete wall in the stadium at Subiaco Oval, (currently known a Patterson's Stadium). The painting, by one of Western Australia’s most highly respected figurative painters, is a treasure of the Subiaco Public Art Collection, commissioned in partnership with the Western Australian Football Association.
David Gregson was a passionate propagator of the power of art to communicate and transform our everyday existences. Through his dynamic fifty-year painting career alongside a teaching career, his infectious love of life and colour inspired a raft of young artists.
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Artist: Lorenna Grant
Year of Work: 2006
Location: Subiaco Arts Centre / Theatre Gardens car park
Asset Type: Artwork
Provenance: Subiaco
Decommissioned Status: 2019 Parks team coordinated contractor to remove artwork in October.
Description: Nel Raggo, an Italian term meaning ‘to radiate’, is a vibrant and multi-faceted artwork based on the numerical sequence observed by Fibonacci, the eleventh century Italian mathematician. The sequence is a harmonious proportion found in architecture, music, human anatomy and nature; such as the pattern of leaves on a stem or the arrangement of a pine cone. Attracting both adults and children, the choice of materials and accessible structure make the artwork a conducive place to play, muse and rest. Lorenna Grant is particularly known for her
work which fuses art and nature. Lorenna has a Masters of Creative Art from Curtin University and has won several awards including Sculpture by the Sea in 2005 and an Australian Institute of Landscape Architecture Award (AILA) in 2008.
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Artist: Rick Vermey
Year of Work: 2001
Location: Junction of Broadway and the Avenue boarder of Nedlands and Subiaco
Asset Type: Artwork
Provenance: Subiaco
Decommissioned Status: This artwork now falls into the boundary of City of Nedlands.
Description: ‘The artwork commemorates the presence of individuals who affected Nedlands’ origins along its foreshores and elsewhere. It features a large copper-coloured star form, six metres in the air, symbolising both astronomical navigation and points on the compass.’ (text courtesy of City of Nedlands Public Art information sheet) To acknowledge Meg Sheen, a past Councillor of both the City of Nedlands and Subiaco and the organiser of many arts and cultural events.
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Artist: Helen Smith AC4CA
Year of Work: 2012
Location: Anvil Street behind the ACE cinema
Asset Type: Sculpture
Provenance: Painting
Decommissioned Status: Building demolished in 2015
Description: Helen Smith has cleverly transformed a concrete box with minimalist geometry into an aesthetically and mathematically beautiful interruption of an otherwise monotonous municipal landscape. The elegant organisation of colour and shape creates an optical manipulation of the surface and our perspective. Ace is one of four semi-permanent wall works in Subiaco by the Australian Centre for Concrete Art (AC4CA) to be found between Railway and Thomas roads.
Helen Smith is an Honours Graduate of Curtin University whose large-scale paintings and photographic works are included in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Daimler-Chrysler Foundation in Berlin, Australian Embassy in Madrid, as well as many private collections.
Established in 2001, AC4CA is a collective of Western Australian and international artists who create interventions as a way of injecting some joy into our everyday urban spaces. Location and scale determine their deceptively simple murals, which can be found in Fremantle, Subiaco, Paris, Basel and Berlin.
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Artist: Peter Dailey
Year of Work: 1997
Location: Subiaco Common, Subi Centro
Asset Type: Sculpture
Provenance: Subiaco
Decommissioned Status: Decommissioned 2017
Description: A living room with oversized furniture, a television and carpet are familiar yet fantastical for toddlers. Peter Dailey has created the sculptural environment to encourage a wide range of visual and physical experiences. The interactive encounter is enjoyed by young and old alike. Peter Dailey is a prolific artist, teacher and mentor with several solo exhibitions and public art commissions under his belt. Peter’s
work is also represented in many public and corporate collections
including the Art Gallery of Western Australia and the University of
Western Australia.
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Artist: Daniel Goettin
Year of Work: 2011
Location: Rear of 33 Denis Street
Asset Type: Painting
Provenance: Subiaco
Decommissioned Status: Building demolished in 2014 Artwork no longer exists
Description: This wall painting exemplifies the distinctive characteristics of works by members of the Australian Centre for Concrete Art (AC4CA) with an emphasis on bright colours and simple patterns. Location and scale are the determining factors in shaping a ‘concrete art’ intervention. Daniel has created a temporary installation that plays with proportion and design. Rectangles of bright green, dark grey and white are painted directly onto the wall. The elongated wall allows a work that responds to and also involves itself with the space around it. The choice of clear crisp colours lifts the surroundings making the presence of the work extend well beyond itself.