Three Businessmen who forgot their lunch, Alison Weaver, Paul Quinn, Maquette
Summary
This group of three bronze figures (purchased at auction in 2015), is closely modelled on the iconic public sculpture, ‘Three Businessmen Who Brought Their Own Lunch: Batman, Swanston & Hoddle’.
The words ‘MELBOURNE MAN’ appear at the base of one of the figures. The group offers a miniature version of the whimsical, life-size bronze originals located at the corner of Bourke and Swanston Streets. Artist Alison Weaver claims that while the men are named and motionless, they are also intended to be anonymous and to represent being ‘trapped in the perpetual motion of consumerism’. Weaver considers these three Melbourne pioneers to be ‘pedestrians of vast time’ who have returned to the city streets and says her interpretation of them is driven by humour rather than by iconoclasm.
