Featured sculptures created for the great outdoors.
Artist: Peter Steller
Parks and gardens are a fitting backdrop for Steller’s nature-inspired work.
Featured
Artist: Peter Steller
Parks and gardens are a fitting backdrop for Steller’s nature-inspired work.
Limited Edition of 5/25
Dimensions: 190 x 70 x 50cm
Medium: Cast aluminium on corten steel base
Artist Statement: I always admire the size and grandeur of the pelican. I enjoy portraying these characteristics of the pelican in a non-traditional, abstract way to depict this beautiful, yet ungainly, loveable bird.
Awards: First Prize - 2019 RNA - Outdoor Sculpture
Dimensions: 3m x 1.2m x 1.2m
Medium: Steam bent Spotted Gum
Artist Statement: This kinetic sculpture, designed to move with the wind, was inspired by the spiral lines of a on a clam shell and the spray seen flying above breaking waves in an off-shore breeze.
Awards: 2021 - Highly Commended - Royal Queensland National Show
Dimensions: 200x120x90cm
Medium: Cast Aluminium
Artist Statement: The simple pleasures of running/playing and family time bonding, are unfortunately being lost for too many. So, let’s all get out there, start living and have fun in our great outdoors.
Dimensions: 3.6mx1.2mx1.2m
Materials: 316 Stainless Steel and Cor10 steel
Artist Statement: Depicts the freedom of a bird soaring high in the sky. This sculpture, moving freely in the wind, is an expression of our desire for total freedom to attain personal achievements.
Every achievement starts with the freedom to Dream!
Awards: 2018 selected finalist Sculpture@Bayside, Sydney
2017 First Prize - Outdoor Sculpture Queensland Royal National Show
Dimensions: 200 x 40 x 40cm
Medium: Fibre Glass
Artist Statement: The heroic efforts of the RFS fighting in last summer’s fires against monumental odds were the inspiration for this sculpture. Gently rotate the sculpture if no wind and see the flames surround the fireman.
Material: Foam Sandwich Fiberglass+PVC pipe
Dimensions: 2.4mx1.8mx1.8m
Artist Statement: The solar powered water pump supplies water to make the fountain rotate and produce the mesmerizing patterns as the flower rotates.
Awards: 2013 Sculptors Queensland Perides Fine Art Award.
Material: Stainless Steel, Epoxy Fibre glass marine ply and polystyrene floatation and powered by solar panels
Dimensions: 1.5mx1.2mx1.2m
Artist Statement: The solar powered water pump supplies water to the sculpture while four 4 separate solar cells on the base of the sculpture power a small 6volt motor to rotate the sculpture. When sufficient sun hits the solar cells the sculpture will rotate and water will eject from the wing tips creating the effect of the bird spreading its wings and taking off for flight.
Awards: 2016 Sculptors Queensland 2016 Brisbane Sculpture Festival Honorable Award.
Material: Laminated marine ply and epoxy finish
Dimensions: 330 x 100 x 100cm
Artist Statement: The solar powered revolving sculpture demonstrates the balance of the dancer as she pirouettes delicately on the surface and symbolizes how we must maintain balance in all our activities. If we do too much or to little, we will fall or cause someone else to fall.
Awards: 2015 Sculptors Queensland Shillam Award
Medium: Laminated Marine ply, Fibreglass and 6v solar cell and Motor
Dimensions: 3.6m x 1m
Artist Statement: This solar powered kinetic sculpture was inspired by the beauty of the supple body of a dancer pirouetting gracefully across the stage with what appears to be minimal effort.
‘The Sun Dancer’ will happily dance when the sun is shining sufficiently!
Volare (Italian means to fly)
Medium: Steam bent Quandong, Fibreglass, Stainless Steel, Corten
Artist Statement: This wind powered kinetic sculpture, reflects the feeling of joy I experience when observing birds flying so high and freely.
The name ‘Volare’ was inspired the song, ‘Volare’, sung by Dean Martin. ‘Let’s fly way up to the clouds away from the maddening crowds …….your love has given me wings.’
Awards: 2023 first prize Moon Mountain Sanctuary Kinetic Sculpture, Northshore Sculpture by the River
Medium: 316 Stainless Steel
Dimensions: 100x150x140cm
Artist Statement: Honey eating birds, with their ability to put their beaks into a flower and retrieve nectar while hovering above a flower is one of the inspirations for this sculpture; the other, is the distinctive form of the ‘Bird of Paradise’ flower.