Eye to the Sky / Solar Cities Commemorative Artwork - Magnetic Island, Townsville, QLD
Client: Office of Clean Energy / Queensland State Government 

Title: Grain Elevator Room
Artist: Graham Chalcroft

Invisible – River Vistas, Parramatta, Sydney
Client: JQZ

Artwork Description

‘Invisible’ is a site-specific artwork that reflects the intangible, unseen history of Parramatta; it’s history, the land, the people. It narrates site connections between Parramatta’s First Nation Peoples, the Darug, settler colonists & Maori.

Invisible responds to the thematic narrative of ‘weaving’; identified through a research and cultural representative consultation process undertaken by Vertebrae.

Collaborating artists: Aunty Kerrie Kenton (Darug Elder, artist / weaver) Jacqueline Harvey (Māori artist / weaver) Graham Chalcroft / Vertebrae

Photos: Graham Chalcroft / Vertebrae

Litmus - Carnes Hill Precinct, Liverpool, Sydney
Client: Liverpool Council

Artwork Description

Litmus delivers an iconic centrepiece and wayfinding landmark for the Carnes Hill Community and Recreation Precinct.

Litmus celebrates the health and sustainability of both the community and local environment through the integration of pH litmus test strip referenced surface graphic patterns and an after dark sequenced colour light program.  

Highly popular with the local community, at night, Litmus takes the form of a ‘forest of light’ to create an immersive and interactive experience that truly activates the space.

Photos: Graham Chalcroft / Vertebrae

Arbour Structure Art Panels + Mural – Julia Reserve Youth Precinct, Oran Park. 
Client: Landcom / Greenfields Development Company
Art Project Management: Guppy & Associates Art Management
Landscape Design: JMD Design

Artwork Description

2020 Winner Park and Open Space, NSW Landscape Architecture Award / AILA as part of JMD Design Landscape Architecture submission. 

Abstract artwork designs were developed with local schools and youth based on the idea of colour and graphics as identity signifiers. The designs were inspired by the graphics and markings of motorsport vehicles that once raced at the sites former Oran Park Racetrack.

Photos: Graham Chalcroft / Vertebrae

MicroBioLogical – PRIME, Macquarie Park, Sydney
Client: JQZ

Artwork Description

MicroBioLogical provides a human scale context that establishes an iconic presence as a dynamic wayfinding marker and retail plaza meeting place. MicroBioLogical connects multiple vistas to and from Waterloo Rd to the retail plaza on a ground plane; and further links those with direct views from the retail level roof top common lawn area and surrounding apartment balconies. 

The artwork interprets the microbiology of nearby Shrimptons Creek and the use of micro-organisms in science and technology research in the Macquarie Park area. Visual inspiration is taken from mid-century art and scientific illustration of the atomic age.

The artwork extends to a water feature with images of micro-organisms etched into the paving. The combination of sculpture, decked seating plinth, and water feature; provide a range of active and passive levels of interaction. The location and footprint of the sculpture and water feature allows easy access and unimpeded pedestrian flow. This creates space to support future flexible uses and activities to be held in the main plaza area. 

Photos: Graham Chalcroft / Vertebrae + Ben Shepherd (courtesy of Tilt Industrial Design)

Video: Ben Shepherd (courtesy of Tilt Industrial Design

Kaleidos-Culture Velocity Wheel – Blacktown, Greater Western Sydney
Client: Blacktown City Council + Roads and Maritime Services

Artwork Description

Greek kal (ós) beautiful + eîdo (s) form + -culture

The history of activities held at Blacktown Showground, the site of which the artwork is located opposite of, along with the areas endemic Cumberland Plain Woodland ecology; are acknowledged and interpreted through form, colour and technology.  

Colours reflect the agricultural show prize ribbons. The changing light pattern program evokes the energy of fairground rides and vitality of Blacktown as a culturally diverse and evolving community.

Standing as tall as the trees of the Cumberland Plain Woodland that once covered the area, the kaleidoscopic pattern of leaves and atoms in the canopy remind us of our connection to each other through our shared atomic beginnings.

Photos: Graham Chalcroft / Vertebrae

Title: Osmosis
Artist: Graham Chalcroft and Chris Tobin
Location: Top Ryde Shopping Centre, Ryde, Sydney
Client: Lend Lease
Art Co-ordination: Guppy & Associates

Title: Rage for Curiosities
Artist: Graham Chalcroft 

Title: BirdSphere / Georges River Historic Interpretive Trail
Artist: Graham Chalcroft
Location: Shortland Brush Reserve, Mirambeena Regional Park, Bankstown, Sydney
Client: Bankstown City Council

TreeCycle
Intersect Greenway Project,
Hawethorne Canal, Leichardt, Sydney

pH Marker  The Bay, Angas St, Meadowbank, Sydney Client: JQZ

Title: Park Life
Artist: Graham Chalcroft
Location: Margret Whitlam Recreation Centre, Waverley Park, Bondi, Sydney
Client: Waverly Council 

Title: Gathering / Indigenous Cultural Learning Space
Artist: Graham Chalcroft and Aunty Edna Watson
Location: Second Ponds, Ponds Parklands, Sydney
Client: Urban Growth NSW
Art Co-ordination: Guppy & Associates Art Management
Photography: Graham Chalcroft/Vertebrae

Title: Tree People
Artist: Graham Chalcroft
Location: Weekly Park, Stanmore, Sydney
Client: Marrickville Council