Maquette, Eel Trap 2006

CLARKE, Fiona (Kirrae Whurrong); MCKEAN, Ken

Registration number

1092356

Artist/maker

CLARKE, Fiona (Kirrae Whurrong); MCKEAN, Ken

Title

Maquette, Eel Trap

Production date

2006

Medium

painted and engraved steel

Dimensions (H x W x D)

55 x 47.5 x 10.5 cm

Credit line

City of Melbourne Art and Heritage Collection

Keywords

Eel Trap, Fiona Clarke, Ken McKean, 2006, Birrarung Marr, Yarra River

Summary

Fiona Clark and Ken McKean’s Eel Trap is based on the design of a traditional Indigenous eel trap. The plate-steel sculpture is painted red and engraved with Indigenous designs. A local food source, eels were once trapped close to this site (Birrarung Wilam on the Yarra River) near the shallow waterfalls that used to exist downstream, separating the freshwater of the river from salty water of the bay.