“Sculpture used not to sell because ‘it gets in the way’.
With walls tumbling to make way for open plan living in minimalist apartments sculpture is now walking out of the door to sit in hallways, beside pools and on parterres around Australia.

Especially, it seems if it is in the form of a giraffe.
Sydney dealer Dominic Maunsell sold 20 bronze giraffes by Jane Dawson at $4000 each from an exhibition in December. Demand is so strong that Maunsell Wickes at Barry Stern Galleries is being refurbished to showcase a medium that 20 years ago rarely sold.

‘There was a time when mum had the garden out the front and dad had the vegetable patch at the back,’ says Maunsell. ‘Now gardens are being designed within an inch of their life and are not complete without sculpture.’ ”