John F. Kennedy Memorial

Raymond B. Ewers was commissioned to create a portrait of the assassinated former US President John F. Kennedy (1917-1963). The bronze bas-relief sculpture was set in a granite boulder and placed in a specially designed and created Japanese Garden at Treasury Gardens, Spring Street, Melbourne. The memorial was unveiled by the Lord Mayor of Melbourne on 25 March 1965.

Shell Mace

Shell Mace is located at the corner of Flinders and Spring Street, Melbourne. This aluminium sculpture was created in 1989 by Charles O. Perry.

There is a precarious stillness to the sculpture yet also wonderment in its balance and symmetry. When walking around the sculpture, surprises appear through different lines, shadows and angles which create an unexpected sense of motion. Like an object that has been smoothed and rounded by constant tumbling through the ocean or by the perpetual movement of the wind.