Perth Voice Interactive

THIS sculpture cost about $720,000.

The Maylands artwork was required as part of Bayswater council’s “per cent for public art” policy. Developers with projects more than a million dollars are required to contribute one per cent of the cost to public art: they can either commission their own, or contribute to a council fund.

A local contacted the Voice this week to say the sculpture at the $188 million Finbar development looks like “an afterthought”. The Voice called the developer, who says more artworks are going up, but this sculpture, called “Vault” by WA artist Stuart Green, is the main piece.

“It’s art so it’s whatever you make of it,” Mark from Finbar says. “It was inspired by the former use of the site.” The site was formerly Ross’s Auctioneers & Valuers’ metal workshop.

The mammoth 17,259sqm mixed-use complex will be 10 storeys high and feature 347 apartments.

Stage one is almost complete with the rest expected to be finished by 2017.

by EMMIE DOWLING