Find the work beside the Marine Parade coastal path immediately north of Grant Street, near Jean-Pierre Rives’s Untitled sculpture.
South Australian sculptor George Andric builds complex structures from arrangements of simple repeated elements. His work explores the relationship between simple and complex, material and empty space, structure and form - so Icarus 4 is worth viewing from several sides rather than settling for one silhouette.
It belongs to Andric's Icarus body of work, a series significant enough that a professional valuation prepared for the Town described it as influencing his artistic development over about a decade.
In 2016 an anonymous owner offered Icarus 4 to the Town, asking that it be installed near Marine Parade and Grant Street to commemorate the loss of a family member. Council accepted the $34,000 donation and it was installed here permanently.
Jean-Pierre Rives' Untitled is nearby, giving you two very different large-scale sculptures to compare on the same coastal wander.
George Andric - Gomboc Gallery
WA Public Art Inventory - Cottesloe

