Public art in full bloom at Hamersley Public Golf Course

The newly refurbished state-of-the-art Hamersley Public Golf Course now showcases four new public artworks by artist, Pamela Gaunt in collaboration with Apparatus.

It’s the largest public art project delivered by the City to date and boasts an iconic illuminated soffit artwork spanning 43 metres in length as you enter the Club House. Another feature to the course is the discoverable ground-based  sandblasted treatment, which leads golfers along the path to the Driving Range, where they’ll be greeted with an intricate and layered illuminated glass in-ground artwork and soffit panel design right above.

The collection of the four integrated artworks respond to the bushland context of the golf course, creating a visual narrative about the Tuart tree’s flowering cycle, through: subtle and bold interventions in materials and surfaces, meaningful patterning, layering, illumination, and considered placement.

Artist Pamela Gaunt and Apparatus say, “the hope is the artwork evokes a shifting visual experience and sensorial response from visitors/patrons through the incorporation of tactile surfaces, illumination, shadows, discoverable elements, and experiences that reflect different aspects of the Tuart – seed pods, flowers, nuts and leaves… We hope the artworks will integrate within the fabric of the building(s) and will play a role in shaping and crafting the experience of the golf course, cultivating a sense of appreciation for the Tuart tree and its landscape”.

“The connection between the artwork locations acts as metaphor for nature’s cycles. Look up (soffit); look down (path); look up and down (soffit and glasswork) ; a reminder that looking up and down may provide the opportunity to be a witness/observer of Nature’s cycles; and in this case – the Tuart’s cycle.”

The Tuart (Morrl, Duart, Mooarn, Moorun, Mouarn and Tooart) is the largest Eucalyptus on the Swan Coastal Plain and is significant to the Nyoongar people, the traditional owners of the Southwest Western Australia. Apparatus and Pamela Gaunt consulted with Nyoongar Elder, Vivienne Hansen on the cultural knowledge for this project.

Watch our short 2-minute video with Artist, Pamela Gaunt describing the project and artworks on Youtube.