Created for the ‘ArtsCape’ sculpture exhibition held at Byron Bay in June of 2005, this sculpture was mounted on the cliff at the most easterly point of mainland Australia. Based on the theme of nautical navigation and responding to the nearby Cape Byron Lighthouse, the sculpture proved to be a hugely successful attraction within the exhibition and remained in situ long after the exhibition was dismantled.

The sculpture stands almost 4.5 metres tall and is made in a mosaic technique: thousands of tiny squares of steel flat bar are welded free hand to create the form of the male figure. In one hand he holds up a windrose, an ancient navigational compass and in the other a brass ship’s bell, wrapped in chains around his feet and weighing the sculpture down to the plinth.

Such was the weight and scale of the sculpture that a helicopter was used to install the work, which made for a striking spectacle as it hovered in over the Pacific Ocean while migrating whales breeched below.

This work is now in a private collection near Melbourne.