Public Art in Geeveston
My former hometown of Geeveston has a very strong forestry heritage so it was only natural to choose timber as a medium for public art around town. What I especially love though is that they chose to feature local people and their stories. These statues were carved and placed on and around Church Street, the main street. There is a former local doctor,policeman, blacksmith, chemist and others. In recent years the local history group commissioned several short films, each featuring one of the characters. As well as being available on DVD visitors can access them by scanning the QR code one the explanatory sign near each one. Pretty cool I think.
This is cute especially the ones with the Christmas hats.
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I don’t know who puts them on but it has been a bit of a tradition every year to put Santa hats on the statues.
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That is good to make it more of a merry season 🎅
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These wooden statues look nice, they almost look like copper in some angles.
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I love your photos, but I adore that plaque 😀
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Me too.
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