Garden Accessories Articles
The Style Factor
Product style makes a difference when designing commercial or domestic landscapes. Rivas Design offers a range of quality-crafted wrought iron outdoor mirror features that elevate reflection to an art form.
Climbing the Walls
Entanglements introduce their latest creation, the Hex Vertical Garden. A modular metal design, this vertical garden wall can be arranged to suit any need – indoors or out – and offers a natural ‘rust’ finish.
Reflective Solutions
The Repeat Range of outdoor mirrors from Rivas Design were created with landscaping in mind, offering a unique style and versatility that will stand the test of time in any garden design.
Lightweight Planters Stand Strong
A penthouse apartment gets the luxe treatment with a range of lightweight Geo Rok planters, creating a watertight privacy screen that perfectly houses the verdant greenlife of a rooftop Eden.
Public Space Pots
The Khilia range of minimalist-styled pots, planters, troughs, and cubes from potsandplanters.com.au are UV and impact resistant, making them a durable choice for public and commercial spaces.
Spring Highlights in Metal Art
Entanglements is synonymous with stylish metal wall art, sculptures and screens, and they have plenty of designs to help add the finishing touch to seamlessly unite any landscape.
Gargantuan Art
Massive earthen architectural sculptures and a wooden concert hall form part of the new Tippet Rise Art Center, a vast public performance venue and park in a remote area of Montana, USA.
Walk on Water
The highly anticipated public art installation ‘The Floating Piers’ by artist Christo, has finally opened on the waters of Lake Iseo in Italy, allowing visitors to experience walking on water.
The Secret Life of Plants
A series of artistically sculptured topiary are to be included on the grounds of this year’s Glastonbury Festival – not just because they look good, but because they hold the secret to connectivity.
Reflections in Metal
Entanglements believe design is all about style and the personification of the surrounding landscape, which can be achieved with the right art piece to help define the nature and utility of a space.
Public Art Takes Flight
A British artist contracted for a public art installation as part of Sydney’s light rail and George Street renewal projects selects a feathery inspiration to grace the city’s streets.
Sydney Gets Vivid
Sydney’s annual public art festival of lights kicked off last week with an exciting array of light installations laid out across the city to the delight of over 1 million visitors.
Timeless Classics of Antiquity
From Anduze urns to the kiln-fired Atlantis range, Outdoor Emporium’s Classic range has the right option to complete any landscape design with traditional style and modern durability.
Pershing Square Park Renewal
One of Los Angeles’s most iconic parks, Pershing Square, will undergo a renewal to create a better public space with Agence Ter and Team’s winning design of “radical flatness”.
The World of Terracotta
For centuries terracotta has proven itself a valuable material for everything from roof tiles to pots. Ian Lyell Design’s range of Italian terracotta continues this tradition, proving to be as durable as they are beautiful.
Upcycled to Public Art
For unique landscape features that offer a whimsical touch to any commercial or domestic outdoor space you can’t go past the ‘upcycled’ designs of Rusty Sculptures by Russ Brebner.
The Custom Effect
Martin Kellock Pots and Planters carry a large range of landscape pots, planters and urns in a range of materials and finishes that guarantee a designer custom effect on any project.
Going Organic
Ian Lyell Design’s new Organic Collection of earthenware pottery is a perfect blend of modern design coupled with natural earthy tones, making them fit for any interior or exterior design need.
The Blue Trees
Pyrmont’s Pirrama Park will be transformed into a surreal forest of blue trees around the world’s greatest harbour to raise awareness of the human impact on the environment.
Enlighten Brightens Canberra
In March many of Canberra’s national attractions open their doors after-hours to host an array of exclusive events and surprising experiences for ENLIGHTEN.
Christmas on the Peninsula
In 2015 the Frankston City Council and Rusty Sculptures worked together to create eco-friendly festive decorations for the central shopping district of Frankston.
Art & About in Sydney
The City of Sydney’s ‘Art & About’ program has opened submissions for the 2016/2017 exhibition, calling artists from all walks of life to enter installations that will engage and inspire Sydneysiders.
Winter Stations
Annual art competition brings new life to winterscapes on the coast of Canada with a range of inventive and colourful installations.
Egypt’s Underwater Museum
Plans for an underwater museum project in Alexandria have been revived in an attempt to preserve the culturally historical site of Abu Qir Bay.
Flash Installation Breathes New Life into Abandoned Space
A temporary public art installation in the city of El Paso has utilised traffic barriers to create a new function space that offers a shift of perception regarding abandoned public space and their uses.
Skate Heaven
A 100 year old Spanish church is reincarnated as an indoor skate park, complete with interior murals created by a well known Spanish ‘pop-subrealist’ artist.
New Public Artwork for Melbourne
A new permanent public artwork commission by the City of Melbourne is a contemporary work that was inspired by a powerful chapter in Melbourne’s Aboriginal history.
Rotterdam’s New Art Depot
A design for a new ‘art depot’ for the Museum van Beuningen has been approved in The Netherlands. On the site of Museum Park, the extension will be home to a wealth of private and public art collections.
Carbon Fibre Forest
A forest canopy of a different sort has been erected in Melbourne’s MPavillion. The installation is a translucent canopy of technology that provides a unique ‘forest like’ feel to the park.
The Dark Side of Public Art
In answer to the question about what to do when public art no longer serves its original purpose, or no longer aligns with cultural values and sentiment - turn it into a pop culture icon!
Screening for Privacy
With a growing trend in creating outdoor rooms as a means to extend living spaces, privacy screens are becoming increasingly popular as part of a complete landscape design.
Al Fresco Art for Summer
Entanglements metal art range includes a variety of screens and sculptures that will raise Al Fresco design to a whole new level.
Lasermaze of Light
UK architect George King has used ultra-violet wool thread to produce an installation that appears to be formed by laser beams within an old train underpass in Detroit, USA.
Design A Dunny
A $10,000 prize is to be awarded to the winning competition entry for a designer ‘dunny’ to be erected in the town of Kenilworth, QLD.
Creating Spaces is Child’s Play
Creating a green space for children to thrive in, or nature to grow wild in, is child’s play with GRC planter boxes from Mascot Engineering. Their commercial grade planters are perfect for a range of urban project needs.
Paul Brinkman
ODS talks Art in Public Spaces with Paul Brinkman – Director of Blue Mountains Cultural Centre.
Maximum Impact Planters
When you need very large planters with minimal weight, the solution is Geo Rok from Martin Kellock Pots & Planters. The Geo Rok range is made from glass-fibre reinforced cement (GRC) and can handle the weight of a heavy load.
Bush Baby Play equipment and furniture
Inspired by the Australian classic books Snugglepot and Cuddle Pie, the new Bush Baby Play range is perfect for creating imaginative play environments.
Uniting a Nation
Terrance Plowright’s latest sculpture is both a tribute to nature and a celebration of 60,000 years of Australian nationhood.
Shopping centre upgrade
The addition of pots and planters has not only enhanced the internal landscape of a Sydney shopping centre but added to the overall shopping experience as well.
New “light” sculpture unveiled
Award-winning artist Terrance Plowright has unveiled another piece for the McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery that pays homage to light in our lives.
Premium lightweight Geo Rok
For the best quality, lightweight pots available for both domestic and commercial landscaping look no further than Geo Rok.
Award-winning artist
Award-winning artist and sculptor Terrance Plowright has been invited to exhibit his sculptural works at a prestigious New York gallery next year.
Functional art to enjoy
Surrey Sculpture Studio are designers and creators of unique decorative art, and building and garden pieces covering classic, traditional and contemporary styles.
Bold feature pots
The Geo Rok range of landscape pots embodies the best timeless design elements and attention to detail.
Concrete planters you can carry
Lightweight glass reinforced concrete planter boxes from Mascot Engineering are ideal for balconies and small spaces.
Art and About celebrates privacy in public
Art and About is a joyous celebration of Sydney’s creativity. It’s an invitation to get out and look at public spaces in a new way.
Drab city lanes reborn as bustling eat streets
Two tired laneways in the heart of Sydney’s entertainment precinct will be transformed with pop-up food carts, outdoor dining and colourful video projections.
Thorny devil
This 3 metre thorny devil, created by Natureworks, is to be a new addition to the National Botanical Gardens in Canberra for the new Red Centre exhibit.
New public art project under wraps
Think Madmax meets Dr Seuss meets Steampunk and you’ll have some idea of what Christopher Trotter does!
UDS Laser cut concepts
Urban Design Systems' Laser cut concepts can add an extra dimension of texture, colour and design to your project, whether local government, commercial or residential.
Outdoor sculpture child's play
Lump Sculpture Studio makes outdoor sculpture look like child’s play.
Clever Garden Art Ideas
Garden art can be an amazing way to help ensure that you achieve the look you want, whether it’s formal or whimsical.
Who Benefits from Using Public Art?
Art offers a deep connection within the human spirit. All types of art, from paintings to sculpture can provide beauty, relaxation, enjoyment and even interactivity.
All you need to know about Public Art
Public Art is blossoming as a component of immense public interest as the artists create masterpieces with an intention to gain popularity by improving the environs.
Garden Art
The recent boom in TV shows devoted to garden makeovers has led to a resurgence of garden art in Australia. According to a recent magazine survey Australians are more likely to spend on garden art than wall art at home.