leonora cemetery

LEONORA CEMETERY
'Leonora Tree'
Public Art Project

 

 

The Leonora Cemetery project began with a proposal to the Leonora Council in 2010.

The design brief, to compliment the surroundings and produce a unique work reflective of community desires.

A design that is reflective of indigenous, pastoralist, mining, the explorers and those involved with infrastructre.

Leonora Cemetery is an historic site and is home to the graves of many of those who died while working on the historic Sons of Gwalia Gold Mine.

This is not simply a design, it is a tribute.

Acacia Aneura commonly known as Mulga, is a key signifier of country.

Detatail, Leonora Tree

 

Leonora Cemetery is a heritage site 850 kilometres North East of Perth in the Eastern Goldfields district of Western Australia.

 

 

Leonora Cemetery is distinctive for its indigenous and pioneers graves, the red oxide earth, and abundance of rusted wrought iron on the grave sites. Most of the wrought iron was made at the Sons of Gwalia minesite foundary.

 

 

The work is a physical and spiritual marker, connecting earth with the heavens.

 

 

Please contact me for more information or high resolution pdf of the brochure.
Graphic Design - Bob Sommerville

 

 

 

Plaque for Leonora Tree

 

 

 

Looking West toward Mount Leonora

 

 

 

 

 

Felix Design assisted with development of the unique form in which the steel is pre stressed, twisted, into its unique convex form.

 

 

 

Grave of Margaret Palmer, died 18th April 1911

 

 

 

Grinding, Ancient Rock Studio, Byford - Photo Bob Sommerville