Maquette, Resting place 1992

SNOW, Bronwyn

Registration number

1088202

Artist/maker

SNOW, Bronwyn

Title

Maquette, Resting place

Production date

1992

Medium

metal, wood

Dimensions (H x W x D)

41 x 56 x 33 cm

Credit line

City of Melbourne Art and Heritage Collection Courtesy of the artist Bronwyn Snow

Keywords

Bronwyn Snow, Resting Place, Swanston Street, 1992

Summary

Maquette for the public artwork 'Resting Place' located in Swanston Street. Commissioned through the City of Melbourne’s Percent for Art Program, this double-sided seat of steel and jarrah offers the urban flâneur a place to rest, take stock and take in the urban environment. Bronwyn Snow’s Resting Place is a sculpture that combines aesthetics and function. The decorative elements of the seat include two serpents – traditionally a symbol of healing, rebirth and female power – towering sunflowers, which watch over the seated, and ivy. Snow claims of the work that it is ‘a stopping point, a resting place for the weary spiritual traveller’.