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Commissioned
by Melbourne’s Living Museum of the West as a kind of monument
to previous activities on the site, Pipemakers Park, which is now home
to the museum and a public park and the industrial history of the Maribyrnong
Valley. The sculpture was designed by artist and museum associate Kerrie
Poliness and built in 1999 funded by Arts Victoria's program of the
'Victoria Commissions'.
The site was previously occupied bya concrete pipe factory, Humes Pipes.
A significant invention by the Humes company in the 1920s contributed
a more ecconomical way of building sewerage/water infrastructure world
wide.
The artwork is built out of ‘left-over’ concrete pipes found
on the site, and is located on the old ‘drying racks’ where
the pipes were once stacked in this manner to cure after production.
The artwork was built by a previous employee of Humes, Bruce Duff.
© Artwork design by Kerrie Poliness 1997
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