Existing artworks

The MAC yapang Sculpture Park features a dynamic collection of sculptures by both local and national artists.
Set across five hectares, the park showcases a variety of works that explore different themes, materials, and artistic styles. Since its establishment in 1996, the collection has continuously evolved, offering visitors a chance to experience contemporary art in a beautiful natural setting.

Learn more about some of the existing artworks on display in the MAC yapang Sculpture Park by clicking on the boxes below.

Richard Tipping - Morning

Richard Tipping’s creative practice explores the combined communicative qualities of text, images and objects. Morning, part of the eight-piece series Imagine Silence, clearly reflects this preoccupation.

Nigel Llwyd William Helyer - Radiolarians

Conceived by internationally renowned sculptor Dr Nigel Helyer, the work closely relates to its location and reflects the artist’s ongoing interest in the symmetry and morphology of microscopic marine organisms.

Paul Maher - Cultural Diversity

The mosaics placed in the pathway around Awaba house were designed and constructed during a series of workshops from 1996 to 2000 by Paul Maher and school students from the region.

The Late Jim Ridgeway & Sue Stewart - The Meeting Place

A significant component of a larger project from 2003 Lake’s Edge project was the development of the Meeting Place. Through discussions with the Aboriginal Reference Group, local community members expressed a desire to have a symbolic ‘meeting place’ by the Lake.

Ted Prior - Love boat

Co-winner of the museum’s 1996 Lake Macquarie Biennial Acquisitive Sculpture Prize, Love Boat is symbolic of human relationships.

Susan Morris - Moon and tide

Winner of the 1998 Lake Macquarie Biennial Acquisitive Sculpture Prize, this work reflects and echoes the quiet twilight and evening periods in the lakeside park.

Richard Tipping - Hear the art

Co-winner of the museum’s 1996 Lake Macquarie Biennial Acquisitive Sculpture Prize, this environmental sculpture is a visual poem

Janet Laurence - Ghost

This monumental addition to the Sculpture Park was inspired by the Eucalyptus citriodora that stood by the gallery until 2007.

Jamie North - Succession

Jamie North’s cast-concrete sculptures partner the natural and the industrial in a poetic relationship.

Graham Gilchrist - Windrift

Motivated by environmental concerns, Grahamn Gilchrist created a sculpture during his 1997 residency that blends industrial chimney-like forms with wind-rippled stainless steel silhouettes of lake life to highlight the threat of pollution to nature.

Abbey Rich - A Place to Chat

A Place to Chat is designed to encourage people to engage with each other while enjoying the views of the lake and artwork.

Fatu Feu'u - Tanifa O Tagaloa

Samoan artist Fatu Feu’u has established an international reputation as the ‘father’ of Pacific Island art in New Zealand, his home since 1966. Tanifa O Tagaloa is the offspring of Tagaloa, the Polynesian creation god, and possesses a tail much like the fish that swim from eastern Polynesia to the coast of Australia.

John Turier - Aeolian Tree

Situated among the trees overlooking the lake, Aeolian Tree triumphantly rises and moves like the ebb and flow of the lake.

Doug Archibald, the late Uncle Jim Ridgeway and Paul Maher

Cultural Partnership Mosaic by Doug Archibald, the late Uncle Jim Ridgeway, Paul Maher and members of the community.

Braddon Snape - Cardinal Point

Cardinal Point represents the four major directions on a compass: in this case indicating not only the geographical, but also the historical and cultural significance of the site.

Uncle Doug Archibald - Kakilliko

Uncle Doug Archibald's work Kakilliko in the MAC yapang Sculpture Park.

Trevor Weekes - Gateway Sculpture

This sculpture was commissioned to mark the entrance to the museum and welcomes visitors with symbols of the lake.