7-8-9 March 2026

Stephen Coburn

Spirit Aura, Sentinel and Big Yellow Taxi, painted steel

Site 14: Road adjacent to Lake Sambell dam wall, McConville Avenue

> Free Artist Talk 12pm Monday 11 March

Artist Statement:

The three large sculptures I have installed at Beechworth, Spirit Aura, Sentinel and Big Yellow Taxi, are the full scale versions from a series I call Perpendicular Planes.

They begin life as two different drawn shapes in a book, transferred and scaled up on to cardboard, cut out and slotted together. Some of them are scaled up and cut from steel into maquettes and either painted or patinated.

These sculptures are the latest from this series, and at their size, they both blend and contrast in nature.