Sculptures

The Jar

Related to City Art
Installed 1993
Elizabeth BayPublic art
Granite sculpture with padlock carved on one side sitting on a square concrete base in a park.
Granite sculpture with carved shapes on the sides, sitting on a square concrete base in a park.
Granite sculpture with carved shapes on the sides, sitting on a square concrete base in a park.
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A specimen jar bears hand-carved shapes representing the universal theme of life.

Artist: Tim Perritt 

Artwork description

The Jar by Tim Perritt is made from reconstructed granite and represents the universal theme of life.

Carved by hand over 9 months, each face of the artwork bears shapes that symbolise those phases of time which are eternal.

The sculpture sits on a square concrete base. It’s been relocated from Forbes Street, Darlinghurst and then Taylor Square.

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