Description
The chosen sculpture would stand at the centre of the client’s dream home within a water feature with a sky portal directly overhead. Clearly visible from the main entranceway, the sculpture was to be seen through plate glass windows from the three spacious surrounding rooms.
Having considered a range of options, the client commissioned an upscaled edition of Corroboree Dance, a work that was the result of a collaboration between Indigenous artist Walangari Karntawarra and Melbourne-based sculptor Todd Stuart. The sculpture depicts a dancing family whose linked hands and arms form a circle of life.
It was a sculpture that would bring joy into their new home every day, while also representing the importance of familial unity.
However, as the work was commissioned while their house was under construction, visual communication would ground and guide the process through to completion, with images and footage of the sculpture, scaled to various sizes, superimposed over generated images and footage of the finished home.
Owing to the quality of this content, decisions could be made based on these visualisations, including lighting that would make the patina of the artwork glow at night.
Each phase of fabrication and shipping was also documented and shared with the client to facilitate their connection to the artwork’s creation, and in this way the process progressed seamlessly through to installation.
