AECOM BRISBANE OFFICE
Brisbane, QLD, Australia
ARTIST Carly Scoufos
CLIENT AECOM
INTERIOR DESIGN Bligh Voller Nield
CURATORIAL UAP Studio
DESIGN UAP Studio, Stacie Gibson
YEAR 2010
Commissioned as part of the interior fitout of AECOM’s Brisbane office, this artwork by local artist Carly Scoufos is designed to reflect the company’s core principles of connectedness, collaboration and ‘sense of one’. Clustered spherical forms of woven bronze wire reference notions of cell growth, multiplication and the joining of many to create one cohesive group.
Viewed from a distance, the forms appear light and unified, with variations in the wire’s density creating tonal variations, while complex interwoven links can be observed in close detail. These contrasting views provide an abstract representation of AECOM’s local, regional and global approach to urban spaces.
The artwork consists of both suspended and ground-based clusters. The bronze colour complements the tones of the interior design, and the transparency of the artwork activates the void while maintaining lines of sight and a sense of spaciousness.
CARLY SCOUFOS
Artist
Carly Scoufos is an emerging contemporary artist based in Brisbane, Australia. She studied at the Santa Rosa Junior College in California, before completing a Bachelor of Fine Art with First Class Honours from the Queensland College of Art, Brisbane.
Carly’s sculptural and installation based practice focuses on bridging elements of the mechanistic and industrial to the organic patterns of growth and decay. Her work explores the translation of abstract and fleeting moments within fluid phenomena, into woven constructions of industrial wire. This process parallels textile traditions of needlework, lace making and knitting, in which single strands of fibre are interwoven to create structure and define space.
After graduating Carly was awarded the Queensland Art Gallery’s 2008 Melville Haysom Memorial Art Scholarship and exhibited in QAG’s Watermall Café as part of the gallery’s Starter Space program. In 2009, following the receipt of the Siganto Travel Scholarship, Carly undertook a studio residency at Youkobo Art Space in Tokyo where she presented her first solo exhibition, Seam. Over the past year she has completed and commenced work on a number of corporate and public commissions in collaboration with Urban Art Projects, including a foyer installation for Aecom Brisbane Offices and an atrium artwork for the new Gold Coast University Hospital. In early 2010 Carly was awarded an Australia Council Artstart Grant.
