Overview
Carol Stevens deigned an interpretive artistic safety barrier to be installed on a raised area near the Perth Zoo crocodile enclosure. The platform posed a safety risk with an unguarded drop to the area below.
The barrier represents the ‘Simmo’, an estuarine crocodile which lived at Perth Zoo until he was approximately 70 years of age. Simmo weighted 450kgs and measured 4.7 metres from tip to tail.
Capral aluminium kindly donated the 12 mm thick aluminium. Capral cut and routered the crocodile and rock outlines and text using files prepared by Artforms WA.
The design consists of two 6 metre aluminium ‘rock’ layers with routered text on either side of life-sized central estuarine crocodile. The crocodile has been laser etched on both sides into the surface of the anodised aluminium.
Artforms designed a discrete methodology for joining the layers and installing the barrier into the existing paving.
Artforms WA supported four other small WA businesses in the fabrication, delivery and installation of this artwork.
