Admire Petrus Sponk’s bluestone fragment sculpture outside the State Library of Victoria, Swanston St, Melbourne. Source: Supplied
MIKEY Cahill takes a look at some of this city’s strange and unique sights — including art you may walk past most days and not even notice.
STATE LIBRARY SCULPTURE
It’s easy to take Melbourne’s quirky architecture/hidden-shops for granted when you live/work/party in the CBD. This one’s for the out-of-towners
(I won’t say “hicks”, I’m not some quinoa-chomping elitist). Admire Petrus Sponk’s bluestone fragment.
Cnr Swanston and La Trobe streets, city.
VicUrban urban art director Vanessa Walker gets a closer look at John Kelly's Cow up a Tree sculpture at Docklands. Source: News Corp Australia
A COW IN A TREE
John Kelly’s farcical 8m high sculpture was first exhibited to international acclaim in Paris. Good enough for them, good enough for us. The artwork commemorates a moment during torrential floods in Gippsland when, indeed, a cow was in fact stuck up a tree. Pigs might fly.
Harbour Esplanade, Docklands
MAD MAX CARPARK
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? Yes you read right, hidden away at the end of Professors Walk (BYO PhD) in the lawns of Melbourne University is an impossibly verbose carpark where they shot the Mad Max car chase scene. Its gothic exterior is listed with the National Trust.
Professors Walk, Melbourne University, city.
The $100,000 Red Centre sculpture at Federation Square by Konstantin Dimopoulos. Source: HeraldSun
RED CENTRE
Remember Pick Up Sticks? They were so pointy and had such a habit of sneaking off and sticking out of couches, just waiting for you. Anyways, I’m missing the point (ha!) because Konstantin Dimopoulos’ sculpture evokes fire, light and the Australian outback. Very loud and magnetic on a windy day.
River Terrace, Fed Square
Wunderkammer shop owners Igor Listkiewicz & Heather Freeman in their shop with a cat skeleton & dissected rat. Picture: Colin Murty. Source: HeraldSun
WUNDERKAMMER SHOP
This shop/museum has an abundance of scientific curiosities. Scientific and medical instruments, fossils, mineral specimens, framed butterflies and scorpions, even custom made Parisian frames by Ray from Owltech Design.
If you’re stuck buying for that person who thinks they have everything: make it weird for them.
439 Lonsdale St, city
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