Image courtesy of Subiaco
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.