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Public Art

The City of Perth is home to more than 200 public artworks reflecting the city’s identity, both past and present.

Boonji Spaceman has landed!

Perth’s newest public artwork Boonji Spaceman has arrived. The monumental 7 metre tall sculpture has been revealed in its temporary home in the City of Perth in Stirling Gardens where it will stay for 12 months so locals and visitors to the City can enjoy this impressive piece. 

The Spaceman has been gifted to Perth by US artist brendan murphy art who saw a link to our City of Light identity - born from astronaut John Glenn’s historic first orbit of Earth in 1962. 

Perth is one of only six cities in the world to have its own Boonji Spaceman. The others can be found in Antigua, London, Oslo, Houston and Dubai. Each Boonji Spaceman sculpture is a one-of-a-kind creation, and the piece Murphy has created for Perth is entirely unique.

 
  • Highlights of our Public Art

    The City’s significant collection of major historic and contemporary public art works includes permanent and temporary installations that stimulate our thinking, deepen our sense of place and experience of space, and transform the places where we live, work, and play.

    Highlights of our Public Art Collection are available in our Art City Walking Trail and you can also view an online map of the City’s Public Art Collection.

  • Connectus sculpture suspended over laneway

    Connectus

    LANGLEY & ARMATURE, Warren

    Image credit: City of Perth Public Art Collection, image courtesy of Frances Andrijich Photography / Perth Public Art Foundation @ 2016 
  • Circular artwork 'Delight and Hurt' on the ceiling of the City of Perth Library

    Delight and Hurt Not

    NICHOLLS, Andrew

  • Abstract green sculpture, 'Grow Your Own' in Forrest Place

    Grow Your Own (2011)

    ANGUS, James

    Image credit: City of Perth Public Art Collection, image courtesy of Frances Andrijich Photography / Perth Public Art Foundation @ 2016 
  • Koorden sculptures

    Koorden

    GARLETT & KUHAUPT & CHANEY, Rod & Richie & Fred

    Image credit: City of Perth Public Art Collection, image courtesy of Frances Andrijich Photography / Perth Public Art Foundation @ 2016 
  • The Mob Kangaroos on St George's Terrace

    ‘The Mob’ Kangaroos on the Terrace

    SMITH & WALSH, SMITH, Charles & Joan

    Image credit: City of Perth Public Art Collection, image courtesy of Frances Andrijich Photography / Perth Public Art Foundation @ 2016 
  • 'Unidentified' artwork

    Unidentified Photographer

    NEIL, Anne

    Image credit: City of Perth Public Art Collection, image courtesy of Frances Andrijich Photography / Perth Public Art Foundation @ 201


For more information on the City of Perth’s Cultural Collections, please contact our Cultural Collections team at [email protected]. If you have an enquiry about the City of Perth’s history & heritage, please contact our History Centre team at [email protected].