Lady With Flowers

Gungahlin, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

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A large whimsical bronze woman carrying flowers beside Flemington Road in Gungahlin.

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35.20110° S, 149.14932° E

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One imagines she is about to take a tram into the city to meet her bronzed counterpart. That is artsACT's own description, and it is the best sentence in Canberra's public art register.

Dean Bowen made Lady With Flowers in 2011 – his second public work in Canberra after Big Little Man of 2009 in Petrie Plaza – and she stands on Flemington Road near the Nullarbor Avenue light rail station in Gungahlin. Bowen's figures are described as figurative bronzes animated by a whimsical naivety intended to touch the child in people of all ages.

The pairing across the city is the clever part, and the light rail line made it literal. When the two works were installed there was no tram; the line opened later, running exactly the route between them. A sculpture positioned at a station, imagined as travelling to meet another sculpture in town, became considerably funnier once the service actually existed.

Bowen is a Melbourne artist best known as a printmaker, and the sculptures carry that sensibility – simplified, slightly lumpy, deliberately unsophisticated forms that read as drawings made solid.

Gungahlin is Canberra's newest town centre, built out from the 1990s, and it has accumulated a considerable amount of public art in a short time – including the giant goanna at Girrawah Park and the kangaroo and joey at Throsby.

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artsACT confirms Dean Bowen’s 2011 bronze on Flemington Road near Nullarbor Avenue light rail station and explicitly links it as the counterpart to the Big Little Man.

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Public artwork beside the Flemington Road light-rail corridor. Approach on foot from the public transport/pedestrian realm; do not route vehicles to the sculpture itself.

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