FLOODLINE
3-part conceptual site-responsive public sculpture
Marine grade aluminium ap.400 x 75 x 30cm each. Span of 16m
Project Managed by David Hagger
Public art commission for the Stamford Park by Knox City Council 2023

Floodline is a conceptual site-specific public artwork comprising three oversized water-level sculptures positioned in a line that place the audience underneath the water of a great historic flood. Arranged eight metres apart, in a southwest direction, an invisible horizon of the flood level runs through all three sculptures, generating a mirrored abstraction of the gauges on an illusory surface. Floodline materialises a phenomenon caused by refraction, where an underwater viewer sees everything above the surface of the water as a distorted reflection. Floodline gives form to a historically significant memory of place. The ripples through the sculptures intensify as they reach the ancient wetlands of Stamford Park, Melbourne.