Mermaids Artist: Deborah Kelly This artwork is made from paper collages depicting mythical beings based on ancient stories of human-fish hybrids: sirens, tritons, mermaids and some as-yet-unnamed species of merfolk. They swim, socialise, hunt, court and play in a magical waterworld shared with local populations of the fragile Sydney Harbour ecosystem: a seahorse, starfish, seaweed and a seadragon, photographed by Richard Ling. Fish and plankton can be glimpsed too. There’s a wobbegong, pufferfish, flathead, garfish, cephalopods, crustacea, and a lost tropical fish swept up in a cyclone thousands of kilometres north and carried by unruly currents. Included is a rare sighting of the artist’s favourite animal, the hard-to-believe silver-and-cerulean glaucus, who comes from where the east wind blows and eats the blueness from bluebottles. You’ll spot sponges and shells, scallops, shrimp, an especially fancy crab and eggs of many species, holding the future tight.
City of #Sydney commissions Australian Artworks to visually enliven street-level hoardings (used by developers to camouflage building sites)—bringing creativity into everyday lives of Sydneysiders.
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