Image Credit: Jenni Carter
Artwork information
- Title: Connected Histories, 2025
- Artist: James Gulliver Hancock
- Location: Lewisham West Light Rail Precinct
- Material: Corten steel
Artist Statement
These carriages travel through time, beginning at the original steam locomotive and ending at contemporary life. The train uncovers a multi-generational story of evolving use. Sitting on a short siding of the original line the rough steel makeup of the sculpture also references the industry and heavy production this line has facilitated in the past, changing the landscape of both Sydney and Australia.
Artist Biography
James Gulliver Hancock is a visual communicator/illustrator/artist known for his playful and approachable work. His obsession with communicating through drawing has seen him work for major projects around the globe, seeing his work appear on everything from train carriages, to books, to furniture, clothing, ceramics, boardgames, public artworks and animations.
I grew up in Sydney, Australia, and studied Visual Communications at the University of Technology. In kindergarten I remember devising the most complex image I could think of, detailing a complex drawing of a city of houses including every person, every spider web between every house, and all the plumbing etc. It was a cunning plan that allowed me not to move on to any of the other tasks for the day. I continue to make drawing the focus of my day and continue to be inspired by the built environment and how it exists and evolves around us.