Lake Macquarie Sculpture Park Booragul, New South Wales, Australia
By The Calumphing_Four on 03-Sep-10. Waypoint GA1369

Lake Macquarie Sculpture Park

Welcome to the Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery Sculpture Park

Enter via the Gateway Sculpture (by Trevor Weeks) which was commissioned to mark the entrance to the new gallery which opened in May 2001, and then wander the grounds enjoying the views of Lake Macquarie and the 11 sculptures.

You can enjoy one of the sculptures – Hear the Art (by Richard Tipping) before you come by checking out the Satellite picture of the area. It is a visual poem with a few words and phrases incorporated into it.

One of my favourites is the Love Boat by Ted Prior

The Gallery is worth a visit too, and whenever I visit my Uncle, who lives nearby, a visit to the Gallery is high on the list of things to do (along with wine drinking in the Hunter). The Gallery is open Tuesday to Sunday between 10am and 5pm (and some public holidays). Best of all Admission is Free. When I visited in January 2009 the exhibition had photos taken by Hurley (during Scott’s Antarctic Expedition) and Ponting (during Schakleton’s Antarctic Expedition), but alas that is long gone now.

It is not a huge gallery, so doesn’t take too long to visit, but is also big enough that they get good exhibitions through. Also in the gallery you can pick up a leaflet outlining all the sculptures in the park.

To claim a find, initally locate the plaque at the given coordinates next to the Aeolian Tree (by John Turier). The first line is “John Turier”. Email the second line to [email protected] and upload a photo of yourself, or your navigator next to your favourite sculpture in the park. 

This virtual cache replaces my initial cache here Artistic Fingers (GC1M4Y9) which is now emtombed in concrete at the entrance to the park. If you previously found Artistic Fingers feel free to log this cache without emailing me.

Enjoy

The Calumphing_Four