World Expo 88 sculptures recast with aluminium unveiled in King George Square

<p>Sculptures of tumblers in gravity-defying top hats from World Expo &lsquo;88 &mdash; have been recast with aluminium for permanent display King George Square.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img style="vertical-align: middle;" src="http://www.alcircle.com/uploads/images/world%20expo88.jpg" alt="News" width="517" height="226" />Lord Mayor Graham Quirk and Sir Llew Edwards pose in front of a recast sculpture from The Human Factor</p> <p>The two artworks, from The Human Factor series by John Underwood, have been unveiled by Lord Mayor Graham Quirk and World Expo &lsquo;88 chairman Sir Llew Edwards for the public.</p> <p>The artwork has been recast from the original fibreglass into aluminium as a prequel to the 30th anniversary of the event in 2018.&nbsp;</p> <p>Sir Llew said World Expo 88 was an event that allowed Brisbane residents to present their view of the home city to people from all over the world.</p> <p>&ldquo;Also, I think it showed us that we in this great city can do anything we want to in the future.&rdquo;</p> <p>Councillor Quirk said that many of The Human Factor pieces had been stored away but the council had relocated 16 and decided to redesign them.</p> <p>{googleAdsense}</p> <p>He has said that they are going to recast all 16 pieces in an aluminium cast and relive them for the City of Brisbane. &nbsp;The unicyclist sculpture suspended above South Bank&rsquo;s Stanley Street Plaza is from the same series of art work.</p> <p>The work for these sculptures was funded in the 2016/17 and 2017/18 budgets and they are going to &nbsp;restore roughly ten more artworks in the new financial year with the funding.</p>