Toowoomba’s Genestreaming Journey sculpture heads to Singapore
A sculpture which tells the story of time and space in nature created by a collaboration of artists, engineers and First Nation leaders has been unveiled in Toowoomba before it finds a permanent home in Singapore.
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A collaboration of Toowoomba artists, engineers, and local Indigenous leaders have farewelled a sculpture in the shape of a budding flower which will be homed in Singapore’s Gardens by the Bay.
Designed by local SciArt artist Ben Beeton, the three metre high sculpture is shaped like a flower ready to bloom, each petal showing First Nation art on the inside, and naturalist artworks on the outside.
The core shows the geological time scale fashioned in the rings of a tree stump, and spreads out inside to an array of Indigenous Australian stories compiled and visualised in colourful art by First Nations artists from the Bunya Peoples Aboriginal Corporation.
Walking around the circular bud on the outside are the western scientific nature drawings from contributing local artists such as internationally acclaimed scientific illustrator Mali Moir.
In collaboration with the artists, Toowoomba-based DDC engineering fitted the pieces together and will ship the artwork to Singapore this week.
The sculpture, titled the Genestreaming Journey, is a symbol of several years of work between Noongar Elder Aunty Carol Pettersen and Ben Beeton.
It is also a seed that has grown and budded into a friendship between Toowoomba and Singapore with a shared love of gardens, nature and cultural exchange.
The sculpture will be homed in Singapore at Gardens by the Bay as part of the Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers display.
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