Multiple International partner Artmap has just completed this public artwork at Monaco Apartments in the City of Canada Bay, New South Wales. Artmap director - and award winning sculptor - Mark McClelland worked as lead artist on the project, supported by co-designer Trent Baker.
The artwork has three components; a large architectural overhead screen above the entrance, an exterior copper piece and an internal copper piece. Taken together, the three components reference the re-emerging mangrove ecosystem of the local peninsular.
The canopies of the mangroves form distinctive patterns of light and shade, and create a sense of shelter, while the forms of the mangrove trees and the spread of their root structures are suggested in the copper relief works at the glass entrance.