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Don’t Look at the Islands

Artist: Smith Sculptors (Charles Smith, Joan Walsh-Smith)

Asset Type: Sculpture

Year of Work: 2019

Location: 3 Silver City Rd, Babbage Island WA 6701

Provenance: Shire of Carnarvon

Description: This statue acknowledges the heartache and pain that the Lock Hospitals of Dorre and Bernier Island's hold.

Don't Look At The Islands is a healing memorial or the families of those lost to the islands.

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The Boat Story

Artist: Claire Bailey

Asset Type: Sculpture

Year: 2003

Location: Hampden Rd Nedlands

Province: City of Nedlands

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Age Shall Not Weary Them

Artist: Greg James

Asset Type: Sculpture, Metalwork

Year of Work: 2017

Location: 138L Hamersley Rd, Subiaco WA 6008

Provenance: City of Subiaco

Reece Harley 30/10/21 Reece Harley 30/10/21

An Gorta Mór

Artist: Smith Sculptors (Charles Smith, Joan Walsh Smith)

Asset Type: Sculpture

Year of Work: 2017

Location: Southern side of Market Square near Roberts Road Subiaco 6008

Provenance: City of Subiaco

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Fisherman's Memorial

Artist: Greg James, Jon Tarry

Asset Type: Sculpture

Year of Work: 2003

Location: Fishermans Harbour, near Cicerellos Shed

Provenance: City of Fremantle

Description: Much of Fremantle’s charm is drawn from its aquacultural and maritime heritage.

Projecting from Fishermans Harbour, twelve timber columns on the jetty carry the names of the 608 fishermen who pioneered the fishing industry in Fremantle.

At either end of the jetty two hard-laboured fishermen are captured in bronze.

Image source Eugene Scrivener (Museum of Perth)

Reece Harley 26/10/21 Reece Harley 26/10/21

Statue of John Curtin

Artist: Joan Walsh-Smith and Charles Smith

Asset Type: Sculpture, Memorial

Year of Work: 2003

Location: John Curtin Place, Kings Square. Town Hall end of High Street Mall

Provenance: City of Fremantle

Description: Perhaps the most iconic of Australia’s prime ministers, John Curtin is bound to ordinary Australians by his working class roots and trade union advocacy, but most importantly as Australia’s war-time voice. Although Victorian by birth, Curtin made Western Australia his home in 1917 where he became an editor for a union press.
He joined federal parliament in 1928 as the elected Member of Fremantle. He became leader of the Labor Party in 1935 and prime minister in 1941 in the midst of war with Germany and Italy, with troops deployed in fronts in the middle-east and Europe. Weeks after his succession Australia was pulled into a war in the Pacific.
Curtin’s decisions strengthened relations with the United States, as their interests were directly threatened by Japan who had attacked ports in Australian and allied ports around the pacific.
Curtin died in office only weeks before the formal ending of the war in the Pacific. As Western Australia’s first and only prime minister, John Curtin is commemorated at King’s Square in Fremantle.

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Pietro Porcelli Sculpture

Artist: Greg James

Asset Type: Sculpture

Year of Work: 1993

Location: King’s Square, Fremantle

Provenance: City of Fremantle

Description: Pietro Porcelli was an Italian-born sculptor responsible for a number of commemorative statues and monuments in Perth and Fremantle, including the bronze likenesses of Alexander Forrest in Stirling Gardens and C.Y. O’Connor at Fremantle Port.
Greg James was sought out by friends of the deceased sculptor to help commemorate his contributions to Fremantle and the Italian community. His memorial is located in the northern corner of King Square.

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Bon Scott Statue

Artist: Greg James

Asset Type: Sculpture

Year of Work: 2008

Location: Fishermans Harbour

Provenance: City of Fremantle

Description: The statue commemorates Bon Scott, who succumbed to alcohol poisoning in 1980.

Born in Scotland in 1946, Ronald Belford Scott emigrated to Australia with his family in 1952. As a child he grew up in the Perth suburb of Spearwood, later moving to London in the 1970’s where his band AC/DC battled for world recognition.
His ashes are scattered at the cemetery’s Garden of Remembrance where fans leave whisky on his birthday and the anniversary of his death.

Reece Harley 29/9/21 Reece Harley 29/9/21

May Gibbs Inspiration

Artist: Charles Smith, Joan Welsh-Smith

Asset Type: Sculpture

Year of Work: 2006

Location: Windsor Park, South Perth - NE Part of Park, under Trees

Description: "This sculpture captured the moment in time – when inspired by her love of the West Australian bush and wildlife – May Gibbs glimpsed at those ‘little creatures’ that became the genesis of the magical and enchanting world she created. We wanted to create an atmosphere where perhaps May Gibbs, while sitting in the nature that she loved, glimpsed or imagined the lovable bush creatures that she became famous for.”

Provenance: City of South Perth

Image Source Moondyne, Wikimedia Commons (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) — Image source Moondyne

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Iris Metropolitan

Image Source Google Maps — Image source Google Maps

Artist: Greg James

Asset Type: Sculpture

Year of Work: 2008

Location: 81-85 Walcott Street, Mount Lawley

Provenance: City of Vincent

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Swagman

Image Source 7 to 1 Photography — Image source Kelly Pilgrim-Bryne (7 to 1 Photography)

Artist: Owen Davies

Asset Type: Sculpture

Year of Work: 1994

Location: Corner of Jull Street and Third Road, Armadale

Provenance: City of Armadale

Description: Instigated by the Armadale Chamber of Commerce, this sculpture is a tribute to the history and heritage of the area.

The 1890s swagman represents the pioneers and tradespeople that contributed greatly to the growth of Armadale. The Y-shaped junction that he draws in the sand highlights the two highways and resembles the design of the Armadale Council crest. He sits next to the waterwheel signifying the importance of the creeks and dams in the area.

The seats around the sculpture invite people to rest in a subtle tribute to the local brick and manufacturing industries.

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Armadale Family

Artist: Andrew Kay

Asset Type: Sculpture

Year of Work: Unknown

Location: Sanctuary Lake, Armadale

Provenance: City of Armadale

Description: The Italo-Australian Centenary of Federation, established by the Southern Region Italo-Australian Community Foundation as part of the Armadale Centenary, acknowledges the contribution that settlers of Italian descent made to this community.

Amongst the first Italian settlers were timber cutters who were skilled charcoal burners, thus at the turn of the century Illawarra Orchard was able to introduce the first cold stores, which were driven by producer gas.

Since then the contribution of Italian settlers has expanded and broadened, driving the development of a world class fruit growing industry in our city, and are now well represented in a range of business, community and professional activities.

Image Source Matt Devlin — Image source Matt Devlin

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Pioneer Woman

Image Source City of Busselton — Image source City of Busselton

Artist: Greg James

Asset Type: Sculpture

Year of Work: 2009

Location: Queen Street, Busselton

Provenance: City of Busselton

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Korrianne

Artist: Sandra Hill, Cerys Allerton Sculptor

Asset Type: Sculpture

Year of Work: 2021

Location: Slippery Rocks, Lot 301 Yallingup Beach Road, Yallingup

Provenance: City of Busselton

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C. Y. O'Connor Memorial

Artist: Pietro Giacomo Porcelli

Asset Type: Memorial

Year of Work: 1911

Location: 1 Cliff St, Fremantle WA 6160

Provenance: City of Fremantle

Description: The memorial committee sought designs for a memorial to Charles Yelverton O’Connor, the engineer of Fremantle Harbour, throughout the Commonwealth. Seventeen designs were submitted and were judged by Messrs. Bernard H. Woodward (Director of the WA Museum and Art Gallery), J.W.R. Linton and Joseph Allen (Mayor of East Fremantle and honorary architect on the Memorial Committee).

Pietro Porcelli was given the commission, depicting O’Connor bare-headed, standing with one foot forward and arms folded; his left hand holds scrolled plans for the Harbour, and the right hand rests under his chin as he gazes across the Harbour.

The panels depict the Mundaring Weir, the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme, the Fremantle Harbour and the Parkville (Swan View) tunnel in the hills. Embedded in the front of the monument is a memorial wreath to O’Connor who took his life in 1902.