A collaborative public art project with Geoff Farquar-Still for the ACT Government at the Scullin Shops in Canberra (2013). This collaboration took printing to a 3D level. The suitcases were carved with hand chisels and navigate the surface with images, iconography and text relating to travel. The three cases were then turned into silicon molds and then cast in fine concrete. The cases sit around Farquhar-Still's steel aeroplane wing as an interactive sculpture for people to sit and play on.
Photo credit: Geoff Farquhar-Still
Photo credit: Geoff Farquhar-Still
Julian Laffan has worked on three carved timber garden projects. The first is at Reid Pre-School and was a collaboration with Geoff Farquhar-Still. Photo credits: Geoff Farquhar-Still.
The second, the Walawanni Yaranbul, Aboriginal Garden, St Bedes Primary School, Braidwood, NSW in 2014. The Aboriginal Garden was made in consultation with local Indigenous women Kerry Boyenga and Trish Ellis and Biodiversity Program Manager, Felicity Sturgiss. The project was funded by The Southern Rivers Catchment Management Authority. The garden benches use local Dhurga language names for the native animals. It is a meeting place used daily by both children and adults within the Braidwood community.
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The third was The Judith Wright Garden: a community garden space in Braidwood, NSW. This piece was made as a contribution to the Braidwood Urban Landcare Group's community gardens. The carved log acts as a sign and also as an interpretation of Judith Wright's poem 'The Child and Wattle'. The sign and gardens were opened as an event within the Two Fires Festival in 2015.