Former dancer and cabaret performer Justene Williams says it is time to “go big” with her latest work, which will be displayed at Queen’s Wharf near the historic Commissariat Store.
The latest piece of public art to be commissioned for Queen’s Wharf Brisbane is a five-tonne bronze sculpture designed to make people “stop and look”., a sculpture that, when finished, will stand almost five metres tall.
A model of ‘Sheila’ by Brisbane artist Justene Williams, whose work will feature as a five tonne bronze sculpture at Queen’s Wharf Brisbane.“I love to go big so this will be a giant monument to the female form,” Williams said. “The name ‘Sheila’ riffs on the term used for an Aussie woman but it is also the female character carved in stone mainly in Europe from the 11th century, which has interpretations of protector, fertility and empathy and I wanted to immortalise those qualities.“The average person will see a big woman in a horse-stance with one arm open and the other closedlook.”
Brisbane artist Lindy Lee’s sculpture ‘Being Swallowed by the Milky Way’ is set to light up the George Street Atrium at Queen’s Wharf Brisbane.
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