A $25,000 sculpture will be installed on a Central Wagga roundabout to represent the city’s connection to the Murrumbidgee River.
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Wagga’s John Wood was selected to design and erect the public artwork on the Tarcutta and Forsyth streets roundabout.
Mr Wood said the sculpture, comprising four steel branches, represented the importance of the river to the city by symbolising human shapes found in branches and trunks.
“It’s very important public art relates directly to the city,” he said.
“It’s a site specific installation and will speak volumes of our community.”
Mr Wood is also the face behind the bike rack project and eternal flame in Wagga.
“Thousands of cars drove through that roundabout and haven’t seen anything,” he said.
“It provides some sort of interest, whether it’s positive or negative.
“If that’s not happening, art’s not working.”
It will be the third roundabout to be the site of artwork and sculptures, following Michael Murphy's Grass trees and Cranes on the Peter and Forsyth streets roundabout in 1998 and Egret in Flight on the Peter and Morgan streets roundabout in 1999.
The Tarcutta and Forsyth streets sculpture will be completed by the end of June.
The project falls under council's Public Art Plan 2014-16 (PAP),WaggaWorks - Our City's Creative Expression, which council adopted in March this year.
