Coral Lowry

Westfield Booragoon Shopping Centre
Western Australia

Steel. 2000

Triffids go shopping… strange you might say. Well being long, lean, curvaceous all dressed up with no where to go and stuck in the high fashion wing of a new shopping complex with a few of your friends, it would be just hard to resist. Triffids Go Shopping may be confined to the foyer but what a view. Daily, shoppers stop to admire them, have their photo taken with them and even throw them money. The works were inspired by detailed botanical studies. The landscape and lighting for the void area evolved through consultation with the architect, lighting consultant, landscape contractor and artist. The aim was to evoke a sense of beginning of time or some unknown primitive land.