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A giant opened sardine tin in Lloyd Mann Park, created for the Home Hill Harvest Festival.
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The Big Sardine Can
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19.66072° S, 147.41198° E
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The story
A giant sardine tin, peeled half open, sits in Lloyd Mann Park – and the sardines are the joke about the festival that made it.
It was created in 2018 by Vass Engineering with the sign writer Sam Scuderi, and unveiled at a gala event. John Woods, president of Home Hill's Harvest Festival and the man behind the idea, told the crowd that the sculpture symbolised how tightly packed the festival gets – which is a self-deprecating and rather charming thing for a festival organiser to commission a monument to.
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Part of the public-art/Big Things cluster around central Home Hill.
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The Big Sardine Can remains in Lloyd Mann Park in Home Hill. The stored coordinate is Burdekin Shire Council’s published Home Hill Comfort Stop point and therefore serves only as an approximate Lloyd Mann Park/visitor-precinct anchor, not a surveyed Sardine Can coordinate. Use the Comfort Stop/Railway Avenue visitor facilities and approach the park on foot.
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