NEWCASTLE-raised visual artist Jamie North will lead the creation of a public artwork to be installed across a 225-metre square space at Worth Place, after winning a tender from Create NSW as part of the the city’s light rail project.
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Mr North’s Borrowed Landscape concept was selected from a peer assessment process following the announcement of an EOI in July to construct an artwork using materials sourced from the light rail build.
Artists were asked to celebrate heritage sandstone blocks and steel rail tracks uncovered during early site works.
Mr North’s concept, which is consistent with his previous work, will use two large naturalistic stone blocks and galvanised steel bars to suspend groups of sandstone blocks in the air.
Two similar but smaller pieces with additional carved red-brick spheres will provide a tonal contrast to the sandstone and grey paving at the site.
Borrowed Landscape will be installed prior to light rail operating in early 2019.
