Australian National University

AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

ARTIST: WOLFGANG BUTTRESS
CLIENT: AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

Commissioned for the ANU’s new medical science precinct, UNA by internationally renowned British artist Wolfgang Buttress, is a sculpture featuring 9,100 perforations which accurately map the stars visible to the naked eye. An inner sphere reflects rays of light, when peering through the perforation of a single ‘star’ the viewer is captivated by a field of cosmic vision.

Photography: Ben Wrigley

“UNA expresses the essence of the immediate scientific, built and natural environment. It also asks questions about our relation with and suggests the enormity and untouchable presence of the stars. You can see but you cannot touch. We are contextual but also transient.” Wolfgang Buttress