THE ART OF

MELBOURNE CITY

GROUP BBOURKE ST.

FLINDERS ST.

Three Business Men Brought Their Own Lunch

Three Business MenBrought Their Own Lunch

Also known as Batman Swanston and Hoddle”. On the corner of the Burke St. mall and Swanston walk. Made by Alison Weaver and Paul Quinn. The figures free hands are polished as the public hold hands

with them. The public frequently augments the 3rd figure, “Hoddle” with a cigarette added to his pursed lips.

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CAPTAIN

MATTHEW

FLINDERS

By Charles Web Gilbert

1923

St Paul's Cathedral, Swanston Street

BRONZE STATUE WITH GRANITE PLINTH

Charles Web Gilbert

• Navigator• Cartographer• Establish the strait Between mainland Australia and Tasmania

• Use “Australia”

The Public Purse

Location Cnr Elizabeth St & Bourke St

Melbourne Victoria 3000Area: Melbourne

Simon Perry's The Public Purse was chosen as a piece in January 1996.

This piece was commissioned as part of council's Percent For Art Program, in which one per cent of council's capital works budget went towards funding public artworks, with the goal of integrating public art into the design and development of the city.

Burke and wills statueThe famous burke and wills statue is on the corner of Swanston street and Collins street.

In 1860–61, Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills led an expedition of 19 men with the intention of crossing Australia from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria, 3,250 kilometres.

The legend of Wills and Burke

THAT’S THE STATUEDesigned by Charles Summers and costing £14,000, it was unveiled on 21 April 1865, four years after the explorers returned to the Dig Tree.

Originally on the corner of Collins and Russell Streets.Restored and moved to its present location at the corner of Swanston and Collins Streets in 1994.

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