Wave Garden
Image source Margaret River Art Trails
Artist: Kaiman, Margaret River Youth Advisory Council Committee
Asset Type: Mural, Community collaboration
Year of Work: 2021
Location: Margaret River Youth Precinct, Wallcliffe Road
Provenance: Shire of Augusta Margaret River
Description: When Kaiman asked local youth about their local and global concerns, they wanted a mural focused on improved mental health and the importance of preserving our natural environment.
The process began with guided two illustrations and design workshops. Over the course of a week, Kaiman completed the mural with assistance of budding artists from the Margaret River Youth Advisory Council Committee.
The mural encourages young people to connect with nature daily to support their mental wellbeing, and the flowers represent the native Flannel Flower, Australia’s national symbol to promote mental health awareness.
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“I’ve created this piece with our community and mind represented by the crystal, which is blossoming into flowers. It can be interpreted that one’s thoughts are beautiful, or in a more literal sense of a positive impact on the environment. However, I encourage viewers to look for what it means to them.” – Kaiman.
Shipping Container
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Artist: Stuart McMillan
Asset Type: Mural, Community collaboration
Year of Work: 2022
Location: Margaret River Youth Precinct, Wallcliffe Road
Provenance: Shire of Augusta Margaret River
Description: Celebrating cultural diversity, inclusion and resilience in the local community and environment, this mural was designed and painted in collaboration with local youth, their parents and artist Stuart McMillan.
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Find it in the Margaret River Youth Precinct, surrounded by other art works designed by our local teens.
Mental Health Week
Artist: Art students
Asset Type: Mural
Year of Work: 2018
Location: Margaret River Youth Precinct, Wallcliffe Road
Provenance: Shire of Augusta Margaret River
Description: Painted by art students to promote positive mental health messages, you’ll find this mural on the southern wall of the Margaret River Youth Precinct Zone room.
The bright and uplifting design has a day into night theme, and encourages protective factors such as sleep, connectivity, meaningful activities, friendship and the importance of a healthy diet.
Designed during Mental Health Week in October 2018, the students completed the mural as their end of year project.
People of River: Wooditjup Bilya River
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Artist: Miranda Aitken, Diane Hunter
Asset Type: Sculpture, Print, Poetry
Year of Work: 2014, reworked in 2020
Location: Margaret River HEART, Wallcliffe Road
Provenance: Shire of Augusta Margaret River
Description: This vibrant piece incorporates the contemplative words of local poet Miranda Aitken with the artwork background a print of an oil painting by Diane Hunter.
It is a lyric poem uniting all who have stood still by the Wooditjup Bilya (Margaret River) and its importance to the Wadandi people.
The artwork contains colours of the local environment – greens and blues with dashes of yellow. The panels allow light to shine through evoking watery elements and movement.
In 2014 the poem was originally printed on a painted background into a single rectangle of digiglass and located at the corner of Bussell Highway and Churchill Avenue. In 2020, following the redevelopment of the Cultural Centre into Nala Bardip Mia – Margaret River HEART, the piece was reworked into five Perspex panels and relocated to the Margaret River HEART gardens.
Artzability Mural
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Artist: Sky River, Artzability
Asset Type: Mural
Year of Work: Unknown
Location: Margaret River Youth Precinct, Wallcliffe Road.
Provenance: Shire of Augusta Margaret River
Description: The Zone Room has been home to the thriving Artzability group for over 12 years; a multi-disciplinary arts community of up to 20 adults living with disabilities.
Celebration of their collaborative work is displayed in a colourful array of hexagons, displaying original hand drawn designs created using Posca pens and acrylic paint.
Influenced by stencil-based street art, the mural was designed by local artist Sky River to encourage group participation and support inclusive opportunities for the Artzability artists. Featuring Luther Barnes-Frost in his wheelchair, it’s a proud representation of the group’s diverse identity and vibrant, creative presence in our community.
Rejuvenation
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Artist: Simon James
Asset Type: Sculpture
Year of Work: 2012
Location: Surfers Point, Prevelly
Provenance: Shire of Augusta Margaret River
Description: This sculpture pays tribute to the resilience of the community and natural environment, symbolising regeneration and healing.
New shoots atop the shell speak of the green shoots following a fire – regeneration, recovery and gratitude.
The shell reflects our proximity to the ocean, and the uplifting spiritual benefit its untouched beauty brings us. Representing the cycles of time, the spiral pattern evinces the cycles of birth, growth, death and rebirth.
Funded by Bushfire Recovery Working Group
Sun Sculpture
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Artist: Mark Heussenstamm
Asset Type: Sculpture
Year of Work: 2000
Location: Adjacent to Skate Park, Gloucester Park, Wallcliffe Road, Margaret River
Provenance: Shire of Augusta Margaret River
Zygomaturus Trilobus Sculpture
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Artist: Alan Meyburgh
Asset Type: Sculpture
Year of Work: 2014
Location: Turnbridge Street. Outside the Margaret River visitor centre.
Provenance: Shire of Augusta Margaret River
Description: One of the largest marsupials to ever live, Zygomaturus Trilobus roamed the forests and swamps throughout the region for millions of years before disappearing about 45,000 years ago.
More than 20 Zygomaturus fossils were found in Mammoth Cave, 20 minutes’ drive from Margaret River town.
Weighing between 500 and 1000kg, this life size sculpture shows the scale of this long-extinct creature.
Intervention in the Natural Landscape by Human Endeavour
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Artist: Ian Dowling
Asset Type: Sculpture, Mosaic
Year of Work: 2014
Location: Margaret River HEART, Wallcliffe Road
Provenance: Shire of Augusta Margaret River
Description: This collection of ceramic sculptures commemorates the use of the Margaret River HEART building as the evacuation centre during the 2011 fires, and to honour the individuals and organisations who played a part in helping those impacted.
The overall theme of Intervention in the Natural Landscape by Human Endeavour highlights that in many cases the two can be in harmony despite extreme events.
12 sculpted forms integrate into the landscape, with surfaces of colour and textured patterns using individually made ceramic tiles. Patterns give the opportunity to generate rhythm and movement, evoking life and activity to the still objects. Text on the tiles honours organisations and individuals who contributed.
The ceramic-tiled smooth dome forms provide visual and tactile objects that can also be used as seats. The artwork is intended to be viewed and enjoyed with different layers of detail revealed at different distances. From a distance the shadows from the texture define the patterns and enliven the forms. At a closer view the texture of ceramic tiles comes into its own as the sense of touch dominates.
The colour complements the natural forms with brighter colours representing the new life and flowering after the fires.
Funded by community donations.
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Forest Stand
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Artist: Monique Tippett
Asset Type: Sculpture
Year of Work: 2011
Location: Shire of Augusta Margaret River Civic Administration Centre, Wallcliffe Road
Provenance: Shire of Augusta Margaret River
Description: Three trunks of solid jarrah timber reach to the sky, sourced from a 300-year-old fallen log found in a forest north of Dwellingup. It was likely lying on the forest floor for more than 50 years.
It represents the successful relationship between the natural environment that exists in, and draws people to, the Margaret River region, and the timber resources that were crucial in developing its economy and culture.
Once the timber was removed from the forest it was cut into the desired shapes using a chainsaw. The lower section of the sculpture is textured and scorched to evoke the role that fire plays in the forest environment, as a natural factor in its evolution and fire as a tool for land clearing by the group settlers.
The brushed areas on the aluminium canopies represent the rays of the sun coming through the crowns of the trees. The aluminium components lend something of a halo effect that serves to remind us of the sanctity of the forest and the reverence in which we should hold it.
The stone earth wall around the base functions as a seating area.
Funded by the Shire of Augusta Margaret River
Cascading Shelter: Shadows of the Forest
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Artist: Tony Pankiw
Asset Type: Architectural sculpture, Public amenity
Year of Work: 2011
Location: Margaret River Cultural District
Provenance: Shire of Augusta Margaret River
Description: This architectural and artfully designed shelter reflects the shapes found in nature and provides a shelter that can be used in all seasons.
The roof of the shelter contains several concave structural shapes that serve two purposes.
Visually, these shapes aim to echo various birds’ wings, leaves and shapes found in the forest. It articulates our environment and echoes the roofline of neighbouring buildings. The roofline is also designed to capture rainwater and feed it into the adjacent rain garden.
From inside the shelter looking upwards, you can see leaf patterns that again reiterate the natural forest habitat.
The roof is constructed from aluminium, with the legs made from steel.
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Sun, Moon and Stars
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Artist: Kashmir Rouw
Asset Type: Sculpture
Year of Work: 2004
Location: Margaret River Youth Precinct
Provenance: Shire of Augusta Margaret River
Description: The three sculptures work as a collective, created as totems to channel and connect with nature’s energy, highlighting the elements that bring life and strength to the community.
The moon represents the feminine spirit – nurture, light and love. The crescent void illuminates in the sun.
The sun represents the masculine – strength, protection and warmth.
The star or star gate represents infinity – the universal consciousness that is the spark of life through space and time and that brings connection with divinity.
They are from the earth, composed of local limestone and stand as protective forms in a community play space.
Zone Room Mural
Image source Shire of Augusta Margaret River
Artist: Margaret River Youth Advisory Council
Asset Type: Mural
Year of Work: 2006
Location: Margaret River Youth Precinct
Provenance: Shire of Augusta Margaret River
Windmill Sculpture
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Artist: Jon Denaro
Asset Type: Sculpture
Year of Work: 1999
Location: Heritage Garden, Tunbridge Street
Provenance: Shire of Augusta Margaret River
Description: Crafted from reclaimed metal, the windmill sculpture appears to take flight in a quiet, leafy garden in the centre of town.
Reminiscent of a time when early settlers cleared forests, created farms and began a fledgling agriculture industry, the windmill reminds us of the abundance of food and generous nature we are so fortunate to enjoy here in Margaret River.
Funded by Margaret River Community Resource Centre
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Hand Mosaic
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Artist: Jenny Hump
Asset Type: Artwork
Year of Work: 2001
Location: Margaret River Library
Provenance: Shire of Augusta Margaret River
Refuge
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Artist: Kashmir Rouw
Asset Type: Sculpture
Year of Work: 2014
Location: Boat Ramp, Gnarabup
Provenance: Shire of Augusta Margaret River
Description: This sculpture marks the place the community gathered during the 2011 bush fires. People sought refuge under the boat ramp while fire fighters fought flames engulfing the nearby cafe, another iconic community meeting place.
The sculpture is a monument to the past, the present and the future, and salutes the bravery and united strength of a community. It provides a place for reflection on the losses suffered at a personal, community and environmental level.
In the present, the monument marks a place of daily congregation and reminds us of our inherent interconnectedness. Nothing matters but our connection with loved ones and the support and empathy of a strong network, to share in moments of joy, to face our fears and to shoulder the suffering.
Looking forwards, the monument represents a beacon of hope, positivity and light. The hexagonal column represents the rebuilding of homes with a greater ecologically sustainable footprint. The faces correspond to the rising and setting of the sun in alignment with the summer and winter solstices. The four viewing windows, orientated north, south, east and west, frame different aspects of the coastal environment.
Gnarabup is a place of refuge for all. Visitors are encouraged to think about the pioneering ancestors of the region, and the inherent community spirit of the region, despite the hardships faced.
“During the equinox, the sun beams directly down the 5th hole from above, down and inside out, illuminating the centre of the vaulted pillar and highlighting the greater universal intelligence inspiring our own innate intelligence.” – Kashmir Rouw.
Funded by Bushfire Recovery Working Group
Gnarabup Youth Mural
Image Source Shire of Augusta Margaret River
Artist: Holly-Mae Emmerson and the Margaret River Youth Advisory Council
Asset Type: Mural
Year of Work: 2014
Location: Gnarabup
Provenance: Shire of Augusta Margaret River
Totem Poles
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Artist: Mark Heussenstamm
Asset Type: Sculpture
Year of Work: 2014
Location: Riflebutts Reserve Park Amenities
Provenance: Shire of Augusta Margaret River
Sunrise Sunset
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Artist: Ian Mutch
Asset Type: Mural
Year of Work: 2013
Location: Riflebutts Reserve Park Amenities
Provenance: Shire of Augusta Margaret River
Description: From a distance you’ll see a vibrant texture wrapping the wall. Flowing horizontal shapes, bright and organic, span the width of the structure.
The design mirrors the rolling hill lines of the region’s landscape. As you get closer, the artwork’s texture reveals itself as a collection of smaller painted illustrations which closely represent the heritage of Riflebutts Reserve.
Illustrations and shapes of the surroundings include waves, birds, kangaroos, weather, whales, fish, turtles, snakes, river, smoke, native vegetation, leaves and trees. These represent themes of the traditional owners and are natural icons that still exist in the Reserve today.
Funded by Royalties for Regions, Super Town Funding
The Stick
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Artist: Russell Sheridan
Asset Type: Sculpture
Year of Work: 2013
Location: Riflebutts Reserve Park
Provenance: Shire of Augusta Margaret River
Description: This sculpture celebrates man’s best friend.
Dogs can sniff out cancer, they have led the blind, stood keeping vigil for their families all night and have been a welcoming friend at the end of a hard day.
Not only that, but they’re also willing to play silly games with us.
Located in one of the Shire’s dog exercise areas, this humorous sculpture reflects the unique bond and unconditional love between a dog and its human.
Funded by Royalties for Regions, Super Town funding
