1 April 2012

An orgy of gold fish

30 March 2012 | Ozi

There is an interesting new addition to the Canberran public art scene erected at the Drakeford Drive / Marconi Crescent intersection in Kambah. I think it went up this morning.

Anyone got the foggiest what it is meant to be? My money is on gamboling gold fish.

[ED – if someone can send a picture in to images@the-riotact.com that will be great]

UPDATE 31/03/12 13:25 Thanks to Threepaws who has been out to get a picture:

And also to Skidbladnir:

UPDATE 01/04/12 09:06: Mark has sent in this one with a note:

Here’s a pic. I note you have two already, but this one is a different angle and shows the structure nicely as it is visible from the road.

Also, there is already graffiti visible: a silver “shit happens :P” stencil on a central “petal” of the sculpture. Pretty sure this is new since last night: got this image this morning.

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Evil_Kitten5:30 am 04 Apr 12

I thought it was a lobster.

pink little birdie10:47 pm 02 Apr 12

driving north at 10pm in the dark it the northern most on the west side one does look kind of like a goldfish. one 8 year olds make from an foam craft kit

R. Slicker3:09 pm 02 Apr 12

An interesting observation about Marconi Cres. When I was in high school in 1975 someone said there was an unofficial nude beach at Kambah Pool where action took place in the bushes. I took out the Canberra map and planned my bike trip there noting the streets I had to travel on.

Drakeford Drive/Tuggeranong Parkway came to a halt just over the hill and you had to turn right into a street with a long, unpronounceable Aboriginal name. When I arrived at the intersection I saw on the signposts that the name had been changed to Marconi Cres.

Those were the days before public art although I saw a lot of much nicer pubic art down at The Pool 😛

Ben_Dover8:27 am 02 Apr 12

We drove past this last night, what a hideous distraction.

gentoopenguin10:25 pm 01 Apr 12

Dilandach said :

Useless fact:

Its not an orgy of goldfish but the correct term is “A troubling of goldfish”.

There’s nothing troubling about an orgy, only when it happens on the side of a road in Kambah…

Thoroughly Smashed6:45 pm 01 Apr 12

I like it.

It doesn’t look like it’s picked up any graffiti yet. Give it time…

cranky5:36 pm 01 Apr 12

Just how much more money has the loathsome ex Chief Minister committed the local ratepayers to pay for yet to be revealed ‘artworks’?

Is there a fleet of (preferred) artists out there, beavering away on potentially millions of dollars worth of ‘art’, commissioned before himself took leave of the exchequer?

To be installed completely in secret at some future date?

We are being treated like fools, to satisfy the meglomaniac Sonic.

milkman3:05 pm 01 Apr 12

Looks like crap, and is a waste of money. I guess nothing changes.

yellowredme1:02 pm 01 Apr 12

Keeping with the theme of installing public art with no soul … I can’t figure out why they keep buying such cheap and nasty looking crap when there is some really good stuff out there. Everything they have installed on main roads of late doesnt inspire me, I dont look forward to driving past them, I just see them and wonder how much they cost and think how out of place they look.

tonys12:27 pm 01 Apr 12

Gerry-Built said :

gooterz said :

Why build a bridge next to a superschool? why not an underpass like the rest of kambah!

There are already so many underpasses along drakeford drive; why waste money on a bridge, make the kids walk/ride the extra 500m to the underpass – you know, the ones built when adequate infrastructure was provided…

That’s not how a child’s mind operates, they’re not sensible, they’re not going to walk 500 metres to get across the road they’re going to run across the road nearest to their target. Another example of this is Melrose High and the southbund bus stop Athllon Drive, as kids we’d play chicken at that intersection without ever meaning to and not once did we think about the underpass a couple of hundred metres to the north.

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