Windwatcher

Mikala Dwyer

Mikala Dwyer’s Windwatcher is a billowing kinetic sculpture which uses the heritage-listed Irving Street Brewery’s iconic 52-metre tall chimney as a plinth.

The 10.5 metre long sock, enlivened by a pattern of concentric black and white circles with reflective centres, is more than a celebration of the heritage brewery buildings. Windwatcher is a meditative lure. The patterned, glinting windsock draws our gaze skywards, creating, as the artist says, ‘a chance for reflection’ as sometimes the ‘act of tilting one’s head upwards is enough to change the course of one’s thoughts, even if it is just momentarily’.

ADS was engaged by Event Engineering to co-design, document and project manage Windwatcher