Sugar Glider Digital and Art Pharmacy are pleased to have been invited by Lendlease to join the project team as public art curators for the Victoria Cross Metro Station’s Concourse Screen.
Guided by Lendlease’s retail and placemaking pillars, Sugar Glider Digital have utilised the prominent Victoria Cross concourse location and curated 12 digital artworks that follow the narrative of an ‘urban oasis’. The artworks are located in the pathway of a thriving and modern transport hub, with multiple viewpoints and interact with Sydney Metro’s digital artwork ‘Sundial’ by Indigo Hanlee and Michael Thomas Hill.
The artists change seasonally and currently on display are local artists; Juune Lee ‘Australian Flora’, Mia Forrest ‘Icelandic Poppies’ and Sheldon Harrington ‘Shades of Sunset’.
Mia Forrest’s work Mia Bloom’s artworks hybridise time, technology, and nature; surreal stretching flowers bloom upward, embodying reimagined cosmic forms and shapes. As they transform and bloom, they form a DNA-like helix structure, inviting the audience to contemplate how species morph, change, survive, and thrive over time. Flowers are sourced and arranged in studio, filmed, and then a series of digital manipulations take place to reveal striking, futuristic botanicals.
Juune Lee is a 4th generation Chinese-Australian, artist/designer working within the mediums of 2D/3D animation, illustration and projection mapping. His work melds the traditional textures of batiks and silk designs from both Malaysian and Chinese culture respectively with Australian flora to create a new mixed reality to reflect the diasporic and multicultural experiences of Australians.
The teachings from Sheldon Harrington’s family and community permeate through his artworks and visual designs. They pay respect and celebrate the survival and continuity of Aboriginal knowledge and dreaming.
Special thanks to Lendlease, Transport for NSW and for collaborating with us on this project.