Tidal Cascades, 1988

ROBERT WOODWARD
Tidal Cascades, 1988
Water cascading over 3,000 granite weir stones

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Artist Robert Woodward, title Tidal Cascades, 1988. This public artwork by Robert Woodward titled Tidal Cascades is a double helix shaped water animated construction set into the stone pavement on the Western Plaza of Darling Harbour. When realised, this was one of the most complex works of Woodward’s career. He said, quote, the fountain is a spiral water feature in an unassuming saucer-shaped depression in the bare harbourside concourse, a shape cleanly cut as if by an auger into the pavement, ten spiralling paths for water and two for people, a mesmerising show of shallow rippling water.” Water cascades over 3,000 granite weirstones.