‘Routes Overlapped’ Macquarie Park
By Kate Banazi
DELIVERABLES
Detailed Public Art Plan
Public Artwork Commission
CLIENT
VIMG
Alliance Project Group
LOCATION
Epping Road,
Macquarie Park
Artist
Kate Banazi
COUNCIL
City of Ryde
Overview
Alongside clients VIMG and Alliance Project Group, Authority Creative are excited to have collaborated with Kate Banazi and TILT Industrial Design to produce a large scale public artwork to be installed on the southern facade of the Epping Road, Macquarie Park development.
DETAILED ARTS PLANNING
The aim of the Detailed Art Plan is to build upon and illuminate local environmental, social and cultural attributes of Macquarie Park. The subject site is located just steps away from everything encompassing the ‘innovation district,’ with this in mind our artist shortlist included local creatives working across multi-disciplinary fields, using exciting experimental mediums and techniques.
KATE BANAZI
Kate Banazi is a Sydney based artist whose work is experimental, intuitive and often playful, with bold colour and linear elements a key reference. She has exhibited in group and solo shows Internationally and her work is collected and commissioned by private, public and corporate collectors worldwide.
Kate’s current work celebrates relationships, the body in space, movement, shadows and colour, interlocking shapes held together lightly but ready to fall apart. Utilising a multidisciplinary practice to explore, light, colour and graphic motifs, she investigates the layering of colour and graphic elements alongside linear grid structures and hand drawn forms. Negative space and line work map chaos, voids and then beauty - a reflection of every day life in all its unpredictable glory. Repetition and ritual, science and colour theory hold great interest for Kate and are often referenced in her work together with attributes that explore place, heritage and familial ties.
Within the artwork, forms are extracted from the topography and travel passages from the immediate area and the shapes are pared down to their fundamental elements and reassembled.
In Kates words ; “the work will gently cast a shadow through the morning creating its own life, gentle animation and interaction with the building and available light. The gradient colours will change with illumination and angle of the sun through the early morning”.
Macquarie Park
Macquarie Park is Australia’s undisputed business, innovation and technology hub. Consistent with the historical vision for the site, it is characterised by a nationally significant research centre, the Macquarie University, shopping centre, many high-profile hotels and restaurants as well as the Macquarie University Train Station. The land, originally known by its Aboriginal name Wallumatta, was an area connecting Parramatta with the Lane Cove river. A gateway to Lane Cove Park, the area is surrounded by lush, green bushland and open spaces that encourage sustainable living and eco-friendly transport such as cycling and walking.
With Love x
Authority Creative
