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Karratha Airport's forecourt structure

With the imminent commissioning of the new Terminal at Karratha Airport, the Shire of Roebourne commissioned Perth sculptor, Len Zuks, to create a centrepiece for the airport forecourt.

The brief to the artist does not seem to have imposed any limitations although the history and heritage of the north-west of Western Australia undoubtedly demanded that Len's resulting creation should reflect something of the local area.

The recently installed, larger than life group, includes an aboriginal figure, which Len Zuks calls the storyteller, seated in the dust telling his story and surrounded by kangaroos, an emu, frogs and a goanna with a backdrop of distinctive local stones.

Len fabricated his animal collection in steel in his Perth studio and then delivered them to a Perth galvanizing facility where they were hot dip galvanized preparatory to the long trip north for installation at the new Airport.

The larger than life sized sculpture group has quickly taken on an added coat of red Karratha dust which has given it an even closer association with the local landscape and its colour.

Len, who numbers twenty five years as an artist, although until recently he worked as a technician in the Physics Department of the University of Western Australia, said that the animals came from his mind. "It has been my biggest commission so far and I was delighted that I could use my style and create something that has been widely accepted".