Blommig val’ (translates floral whale)
Artist: Micke Lindebergh
The core of my artistic practice celebrates our connections to nature. I take inspiration from both childhood memories and the bright Australian flora to create colourful jungle-like compositions. I like to create work maximising colour and contrast with simplistic flowerlike shapes. The creative process is a way for me to meditate and daydream, and I hope the viewer finds a similar feeling of solace and a connection to nature.
Micke Lindebergh
Micke’s confident hand and unapologetic choice of chromatically lush materials, such as Posca pens, bright acrylics and riso inks, reward his audience with a visually delightful series of gestural arrangements. His playful compositions use balance, colour and contrast to showcase his masterful embrace of the primary palette. These bright and snappy works recall his most prominent influences – Scandinavian design, Japanese comics, and the balmy Sydney summertime. Micke exhibits his paintings regularly in Sydney, Melbourne and Hong Kong. He has recently collaborated with Slowdown Studio, Wrap magazine, HEW clothing and Sydney Opera House.
This place is near the original site of the Iron Wharf. When built in 1874, it was considered one of the world’s engineering wonders. Its innovative lattice sections curved around the shore to the south incorporating railway and cranes. Land reclamations in the 1920s saw the Iron Wharf cut up and buried in the fill, where it remains to this day. Almost 150 years later, work will begin this year on the $2bn transformation of Harbourside, from its Bicentennial identity as an undercover marketplace, into a 21st Century complex with a network of welcoming public open and urban green spaces, including Guardian Square neighbourhood park. Like Micke Lindebergh’s art, the materials and design of the new Harbourside will celebrate our connections to Sydney’s natural landscape.
First Nations Audio Narrative: With thanks to our Indigenous Cultural Advisors, Aunty Jo Selfe and Uncle Graham Toomey, and special contributors who have generously shared important stories of place. Listen to the First Nations Audio Narrative here.
Charity Auction
Love Whale Tales? Want to keep one?
You can! After the Waterfront Whale Tales trail concludes, all 30 sculptures will be offered for purchase at a dedicated art auction at Sydney Maritime Museum, Terrace Room.
The net proceeds from the auction will go to The Kids’ Cancer Project.
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