Original artwork description:

Having worked in advertising in Sydney for a couple of years this artist is well aware that there are more alluring aspects of the city to publicize on a travel poster than this abstract heavy metal trelliswork of interest only to civil engineers and fundamentalist riveters. The Sydney Harbour Bridge was completed in 1932 by British firm Dorman Long ostensibly to connect the north and south sides of the harbour but its true purpose was merely to serve as a platform for firework displays on New Year's Eve. Whether the SHB would have become so famous without the glamorous addition of a nearby seductive looking concert hall photobombing every picture of the bridge is hard to tell. The Tyne bridge in salubrious Newcastle, UK, is of similar design, was built by the same firm and also boasts its own upstart cultural lovechild nearby - The Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art. But the Tyne bridge gets nothing like the coverage of its ravishing Antipodean cousin. Yeah, I know: I'm whinging Pom.

Materials used:

Acrylics

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