Renowned Australian Artist Lindy Lee has been commissioned to create an installation for Brisbane’s Queens Wharf

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Australian sculptor Lindy Lee is considered one of the country's foremost contemporary artists.    She has been commissioned to create a signature piece for the art installations to be showcased as part of the queen's wharf development in Brisbane.

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00:00 Brisbane's $3.6 billion dollar Queens Wharf development is due to open later this year.

00:08 Behind me is where Brisbane artist Lindy Lee's 8m 8,000kg bronze sculpture will eventually

00:15 be placed.

00:16 Today we're getting a sneak peek at just what goes into making such a significant piece

00:20 of artwork.

00:23 I've had the idea for this sculpture in my head for about 10 years.

00:27 So it's wonderful when these opportunities come and all of a sudden this thing that's

00:32 been buried here gets to be alive and vital.

00:39 The torus is the imagined shape of the universe.

00:43 So with simultaneous contraction and expansion it becomes like this donut form that's constantly

00:49 rotating.

00:51 And I love the idea that Brisbane is this really beautiful jewel like city underneath

00:58 this vast sky so that there's the energy of all of that coming into the sculpture and

01:03 then returning some kind of energy and light back into the world.

01:18 I think Lindy Lee is probably Australia's greatest living sculptor.

01:24 She comes up with such amazing, fantastic ideas that talk about life today and the execution

01:31 of it, of her dream, is just so beautiful.

01:37 The bronze has been gilded.

01:38 It's lit by a new LED system of lighting from inside so it will be exquisite.

01:44 It'll be pulsating like the night sky does.

01:47 I think it will be so popular.

01:49 It'll be an Instagram hit.

01:52 Lindy Lee and her team used the smallest scale of this sculpture to mark out exactly where

01:58 all these dots would go.

01:59 They then got a 3D scan of that.

02:02 After that these guys behind me used augmented reality glasses to come to this main sculpture

02:07 and mark out exactly where those holes go.

02:12 Pretty amazing stuff.

02:13 Thank heavens I don't have to do every single fragment of the process.

02:16 It's too much work.

02:17 I mean it's a massive thing.

02:19 It's eight and a half tons.

02:21 It's seven and a half meters high.

02:23 Do you know how much drilling there has to go?

02:25 I personally don't want to have to do all of that.

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