SALLY GRAY | Giant Birthday Candle for Sydney Opera House 25th Birthday

Dr Sally Gray is a creative thinker whose self-crafted career has been independent and inventive. She is currently a writer, curator, artist, concept developer and creative producer with projects realised, nationally and internationally, under the umbrella of the arts consultancy she founded in May 1994.

Sally, Gray, Sydney, Artist, Curator

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Giant Birthday Candle for Sydney Opera House 25th Birthday

This thing is fun. It’s irreverent, loopy, undemanding, pretty …

Sydney Morning Herald 2 October 1998

Invited by Sydney Opera House to propose a temporary sculptural form to signify a ‘birthday candle’ for the Opera House’s 25^th anniversary in 1998, Sally Gray worked with artist Ron Smith to design an inflatable sculpture based on quantum physics and fractals.

Reviews

Opera House CEO Michael Lynch says the birthday candle is representative of the Opera House’s Creative Path, curling upwards towards excellence and innovation: “A Giant Candlestick Marks the Opera House’s 25^th birthday”, Sydney Morning Herald, October 2 1998

Babette Hayes (1998) “Opera House Birthday Candle”, House and Garden, December 1998

Photo story (1998) “A Birthday Candle or a Party of Mating Caterpillars” Sydney Morning Herald 2 October 1998

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Sydney Opera House, Sydney

October - December 1998