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Anthony Gormley's Inside Australia

Prints of Australia’s largest outdoor art installation gallery at Lake Ballard

Australia's largest outdoor gallery is located at Lake Ballard, near Menzies in Western Australia’s Goldfields. It’s the creation of Turner Prize-winning artist Antony Gormley, called INSIDE AUSTRALIA. Invited by Sean Doran, Artistic Director of the Perth International Arts Festival at the time, to make a work to celebrate the festival’s 50th anniversary in 2003, Gormley accepted the challenge saying “I just wanted somewhere with an absolutely flat, more or less 360 degree horizon. Lake Ballard was chosen as it's an extraordinary lake 70 miles long and 30 miles wide, with this sodium crust that makes everything stand out absolutely clearly. The landscape is spectacular and it's in the middle of what’s called the Yilgarn Craton, which is one of the oldest bits of the surface of the earth. In December 2002, after months of preparation, Anthony Gormley supervised the installation of 51 metal figures at Lake Ballard.

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steel Figure Inside Australia Art Installation Lake Ballard

Inside Australia Art Installation Lake Ballard

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steel Figure Inside Australia Art Installation Lake Ballard

One of the 51 steel figures by Antony Gormley on Lake Ballard, a salt lake, installed in 2003 as a temporary exhibition that stayed, drawing acclaim from visitors and affection from locals. The figures extend around an ironstone mound on the edge of the lake and up to 10 km in all directions. Composite image. Near Menzies, Goldfields-Esperance region, Western Australia