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Smoke Stack Windvane
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Smoke Stack Windvane

Stuart Green

Title: Smoke Stack Windvane 

Artist/s: Stuart Green

Year: 1991

Category: Sculpture

Site: Claisebrook Station

Location Details:  South over the train stabling yard

Description:

For those with a keen eye, this windvane can be seen from platform level when looking south over the train stabling yard. Alternatively, a short stroll from the end of the walkway leads to a mild steel tower and copper formed stack. The work has at its top an aluminium form of exhaust gases that silently turns as a windvane.

Artist/s Statement:

One of the last items to be produced in the Midland Workshops, I worked with Westrail employees to develop a silent evocation of the dynamic energy of pressured exhaust leaving a steam locomotive stack. The work contrasts silence and portrayal of an energetic subject to evoke a sense of absence and memory of the steam sheds that once existed near by.

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