Photo: Richard Glover
Client: Australian Maritime Museum
Location: Sydney, Australia
Completion date: 2015
Artwork budget: $150,000
Project Team
Industry Resource
Trent Baker
Armature Design Support
Artist
Warren Langley
Overview
A stainless steel structure (6m diameter) with a complex flotation system which allows the artwork to move with the tide and hover above the water surface. Concealed linear lighting reflects down onto the water surface causing the artwork to rebuild itself with its own reflection.
Goals
A memorial to the missing crew of a WW 1 Australian Navy submarine lost off the New Guinea coastline.
Process
This work is one of many collaborations between Warren Langley (artist) Trent Baker (industrial designer and director Armature Design Support) and Partridge Event Engineering (structural engineers.