I Am – Canberra Airport

Canberra Airport, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

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Checked by Project Big Things · Sep 2026

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A 7.5-metre bronze and stainless-steel sculpture by Andrew Rogers at Canberra Airport.

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I Am – Canberra Airport

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Site-level location · 35.3078° S, 149.1897° E

FIELD GUIDE

The story

Most Big Things are outside, in the weather, on a road. This one is indoors, in an airport atrium, and it is 7.5 metres tall.

I Am is by Andrew Rogers, one of Australia's most internationally exhibited sculptors, and the Canberra Airport work belongs to a series he has made under that title. The artist documents this piece as 7.5 metres high, 4 metres wide and 2.7 metres deep, in bronze and stainless steel – a genuinely monumental object, and a heavy one to install inside a working terminal.

The combination of materials is the interesting decision. Bronze is the traditional material of permanent public sculpture; polished stainless steel is the material of contemporary architecture and, specifically, of airports. Setting them together in a terminal atrium puts the sculpture in conversation with the building around it rather than standing apart from it.

Scale works differently indoors. Outside, a 7.5-metre object competes with sky, road and distance, and often loses. In an enclosed atrium there is no horizon to be measured against, so the sculpture reads at full size from the moment you see it, and passengers meet it at close range while doing something else entirely.

The National Gallery also references the Canberra Airport installation, which places it in a rather different bracket from the fibreglass roadside tradition – this is a serious gallery-represented artist's work that happens to be very large and in a public place.

It is freely visible in the terminal's public areas; no ticket or boarding pass is needed to see it.

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WHAT TO EXPECT

The artist documents the Canberra Airport work as 7.5 metres high, 4 metres wide and 2.7 metres deep. Canberra Airport material identifies the monumental atrium sculpture as part of Rogers’ I Am series, while the National Gallery also references the Canberra Airport installation.

ACCESS

Use normal Canberra Airport public parking or passenger transport and approach through the public terminal. The recommended arrival is the terminal-building anchor, not the sculpture coordinate; observe all airport security/access controls and do not enter restricted or airside areas solely to view the artwork.

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Sources & research

Andrew Rogers – I Am Canberra

Andrew Rogers · recorded 2026-08-22

Artist documents Canberra Airport installation and dimensions.

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Canberra Airport – public parking

Canberra Airport · recorded 2026-09-01

Current first-party parking page confirms public car parks are within walking distance of the terminal and the indoor car parks are closest to the terminal.

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Canberra Airport – Unfurling by Andrew Rogers

Canberra Airport · recorded 2026-09-01

Current first-party airport page confirms the 7.5 m Unfurling sculpture remains part of Canberra Airport public art.

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Canberra Airport attractions archive

Canberra Airport · recorded 2026-08-22

Airport identifies monumental I Am-series sculpture in terminal precinct.

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National Gallery – Sharing the National Collection

National Gallery of Australia · recorded 2026-08-22

National Gallery references Rogers work in Canberra International Airport.

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What we're still checking

Current attraction geography remains locality-level because Sprint 8 did not find defensible mapped/GIS/geotagged site or object geometry.

The exact terminal location and whether the sculpture is accessible without passing airport security have not yet been verified.

Open-licence image search completed 24 August 2026. No defensible reusable image with file-level commercial-use provenance was verified in the completed Commons, government/open-licence and archival/open-collection sweep.

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