Australia

David Mahony Art gallery, Upper Hunter Valley NSW Australia - One day sculpture project Tuesday 19th August 2008

The Giant’s Footprint came about after a chance meeting this summer and quickly became a real community affair. David has been keen to get a sculpture project going for his café gallery garden in the same vein as the Broken Hill project created back in the 90’s by a group of international artists. His photographs from that time are world class and the event made a lasting impression on him, so that now, as this opportunity falls into his lap, he really wants to make this happen.

I am spending time here with family and doing a lot of exploring so I only have a limited amount of time to give but I am happy to work on a large piece of sandstone David has found on a close by farm. He calls me on Sunday the 17th to come over and go check out the stone and as we drive up the valley I wonder how this will work out.

Seeing the rock helped me to get an understanding of what we are looking at here and we decided where it would be best sited and what orientation would work best. Next it was down to David and his team to get the stone in place and he only had one day to do this as I was due to travel up country on Wednesday.