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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Lifestyle
Susan Chenery

Ouroboros: NGA’s polarising new four-year $14m artwork to close roads on its journey to Canberra

Lindy Lee standing among large metal cylinders
Lindy Lee with Ouroboros at Urban Art Projects in Brisbane. Lee says the intention of the work is ‘to give a kind of intimate experience of our true connectedness’. Photograph: Josef Ruckli

Lindy Lee was standing in the sculpture garden at the National Gallery of Australia, wondering what she was doing there. The gallery’s director, Nick Mitzevich, had taken her for a walk and they paused at a “pretty dull spot”, as Lee recalls it.

That was when Mitzevich explained why she was there: he wanted her to create an artwork that would “announce the NGA is here”.

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