FOOTPATH ART
Sydney Morning Herald
Thursday February 17, 2011
With China's terracotta warriors still in residence at the Art Gallery of NSW, another warrior site is being unearthed in Martin Place. Well, not quite. The Australian chalk artist Jenny McCracken is creating a 3D artwork of the unearthing in 1974of the 2000-year-old warriors. Her work will aim to capture the feel of the excavation work at Xian and give passers-by a sense of what it might be like down in the pits with the warriors. McCracken, who is no doubt hoping the rain stays away, won the main prize and the people's choice prize at the Sydney Chalk Urban Art Festival last year with her work My Blue Angel, pictured. The Martin Place design will be completed on Saturday and remain on display until March 13, the day the gallery exhibition ends.
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