This is the last entry in our current series. Balmain Artist Michael Snape created a sign in 1999 using a 30-metre prototype electricity cable carrier imported from Germany which the word "Sydney" running down its sign. South Sydney Council rejected a proposal to erect it at Sydney Park in St Peters, but Campbelltown Council voted to investigate buying and erecting the sign on a hill near the Mt Annan Botanic Garden.
It was never built and represents a lost opportunity to have an artwork or structure to greet those driving into Sydney from the Hume Motorway. Do you think it should have been built?
Source: Skelsey, M. "Towering icon will show the way to Sydney". The Daily Telegraph, March 27:11.
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