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A monumental Golden Orb Spider sculpture by Amanda Feher at Pioneer Park in Townsville’s Riverway precinct.
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Oralia the Big Spider
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19.31857° S, 146.73068° E
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Oralia is a golden orb spider six metres across, strung on aircraft cable, and the cable is not a shortcut – it is the web.
Amanda Feher built her from copper, galvanised steel and aircraft cable, at roughly six by 4.8 by 2.3 metres, and the material choice does something clever. A real golden orb weaver is defined less by the animal than by the structure it makes: an enormous, strong, faintly golden web that can span gaps between trees and is tough enough to catch small birds. Using aviation cable to suspend and describe that web gives the sculpture the one property the real thing has and most spider sculptures lack – actual tension.
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Oralia is a monumental Golden Orb Spider sculpture by Amanda Feher, measuring about 6.0 by 4.8 by 2.3 metres and made from copper, galvanised steel and aircraft cable. It stands at Pioneer Park in Townsville's Riverway precinct, where Townsville City Council's September 2024 public-art register still records its location.
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Navigate to Pioneer Park / Riverway. Townsville City Council places Oralia on the western edge of the Pioneer Park car park facing Riverside Drive, and Riverway provides more than 400 public car parks. Enter the formed public parking area and approach the sculpture safely; the stored site point is not asserted to be a particular parking bay.
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