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Lucky Country

A gleaming sphere chained to an oversized shackle makes Norton Flavel's Lucky Country hard to walk past without a second look. Its mirror-polished surface reflects you, the street, trees and sky, while the heavy chain holds all that brightness firmly in place. The title sounds optimistic - but the sculpture deliberately makes Australia's story less straightforward.

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Lucky Country

Find the work on the Curtin Avenue side of Cottesloe station, near Forrest Street. Approach on the public paths around the station’s northern end.

WA sculptor Norton Flavel created Lucky Country to explore the positive and negative sides of the Australian psyche. The oversized shackle isn't just a general symbol of restraint: Flavel has linked it specifically to Australia's convict past, setting that heavy history against the gleaming sphere and the prosperity and optimism suggested by the title Lucky Country. The wider meaning is deliberately left open - a reflection on Australian identity and what we choose to see.

Walk around it and you become part of the work. The mirrored surface folds together your reflection, other people, the street, sky and trees, changing constantly as the world moves around it. That contrast between an apparently perfect surface and the weight attached to it is central to the sculpture.

Lucky Country was exhibited at Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe in 2015, where it received the Town of Cottesloe Art Acquisition Award and became part of the permanent collection. You'll find it beside Cottesloe Station at the entrance to the village - a fitting place for a work that changes every time someone passes.

Norton Flavel

Sculpture by the Sea - Cottesloe Artist Awards

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