Author/Editor: Felicity Fenner Reframing art, reclaiming place and reshaping cultural memory. Chris Fox is featured in 'Shifting Ground: The Evolving Role of Art in the Australian Public Domain' (Formist Editions, 2025), a publication that examines how public art in Australia is being reframed — through shifts toward inclusivity, First Nations perspectives, and place-based cultural storytelling. Edited by curator Felicity Fenner, the book brings together essays and case studi

The large painted letters of Imperial Slacks, The Guy Pants Company, can still be seen on a brick building on Campbell Street, Surry Hills — a ghost sign marking one of the most generative periods in Sydney's recent art history. Between 1998 and 2002, the second floor of that building became home, studio, gallery, and social experiment for a loose collective of artists in their mid-twenties, fresh out of art school, who came to be known as the Slackers. Cosmic Love Wonder Lus

In 2017, Transport for NSW and Sydney Trains published Escalation Sensation — a 60-page heritage booklet chronicling the history of Sydney's last operational wooden railway escalators at Wynyard and Town Hall Stations. It was accompanied by a 26-minute documentary film of the same name, produced by Art of Multimedia and later broadcast on SBS One in November 2018. First installed in 1932 alongside the opening of Sydney Harbour Bridge, the wooden Otis escalators served Sydney

A comprehensive toolkit providing best practice guidance for public art. Designed for government agencies, private companies and local councils commissioning public art, the Public Art Toolkit outlines best practice in policy, commissioning, construction, and engagement with artists. The user-friendly, interactive guide is illustrated with case studies Interloop and includes expert specialist information, with quick reference links to each step from planning, commissioning,

Chris Fox and the Rozelle Interchange project are featured in The Australian Financial Review article “Vertical gardens: urban oasis or costly façade?” by Emma McGrath-Cohen (Apr 13, 2026), examining the opportunities and challenges of vertical green wall systems in urban infrastructure. The article reflects on the ambition of integrating greenery into dense city environments, while highlighting the complexity of long-term performance and maintenance. At Rozelle, Chris Fox

Interloop  (2017), Chris Fox's large-scale installation sculpture at Wynyard Station in Sydney, was selected as the subject of Question 3 in the 2025 Trial Higher School Certificate Visual Arts Examination, produced by PEM (Professional Educators of Merit). The 12-mark question — worth approximately a quarter of the exam's total marks — asked students to "Discuss how Chris Fox's installation pays homage to the past while also signifying the future." Interloop hangs from the

Following the December 2017 opening of Interloop at Wynyard Station, the work was covered across a range of radio and podcast programmes — from ABC Radio Sydney to a Melbourne-based podcast dedicated entirely to the cultural history of escalators. The interviews below each take a different angle on the project: the competition process and installation intensity, the material and conceptual thinking behind the work, its place in the daily life of hundreds of thousands of commu

Timeflows – A Journey Through Deep Time Timeflows is a public artwork on Dharug Country that explores Ngurra through deep time—connecting geological formation, cultural continuity, and contemporary experience. Developed by artists Michael Cohen, Chris Fox, and Shay Tobin in collaboration with Dharug community participants, the work considers how ancient landscapes—such as nearby Angus Creek and the uplift of the Lapstone Structural Complex—coexist with present-day pathways, i

AUSTRALIAN GOOD DESIGN AWARD GOLD for Interchange Pavilion in South Eveleigh The Australian Good Design Awards set the benchmark for excellence in design and innovation, celebrating the most groundbreaking projects from around the world. Spanning design, architecture, engineering, research, fashion, and social impact, the Awards recognise visionary work that shapes how we live, work, and interact.

Artist Chris Fox has over 25 years of experience in working with the built environment. His sweeping sculptural work and designs push the boundaries of what is physically possible, and aim to provide a bridge between the disciplines of art, architecture and engineering. Grimshaw Foundation speaks with Chris about his pathway into becoming an artist through studying both Visual Design and Architecture.

Dedicated to victims of sexual abuse at St Joseph’s College, the memorial is a place of healing embedded within the school—an enduring acknowledgment of harm and a commitment that such acts must never be repeated. The work is conceived as a symbolic and spatial composition. A sandstone cube emerges from the ground, suggesting a process of awakening, while a central spherical form evokes support and the experience of being held. A water vessel introduces a further dimension of

"Studio Chris Fox is a practice that engages with questions of cutting-edge materiality in the context of design principles such as circular economy, adaptive re-use and regenerative." Radical logics of connectedness and circular economy with Chris Fox

A collaboration between City People, Studio Chris Fox and Emma Saunders Wanna Dance was an interactive art installation commissioned by the City of Sydney for Sydney Solstice 2021, created in response to a city re-emerging from COVID lockdowns during a period when dancing in public had, for a long time, been banned. Three oversized, brightly coloured exhaust vents were mounted off the rear facade of a heritage building on Parker Lane at the corner of Hay Street in Haymarket.

We've been given our first glimpse of an impressive new park beside Sydney Harbour. Set to be a natural retreat in the heart of the city, Harbour Park will feature ponds and waterways with room for thousands, transforming Barangaroo.

Host: Michael Cohen (City People), Guests: Fiona Winning (Sydney Opera House), Chris Fox (Studio Chris Fox, Usyd) In 2020, as COVID-19 lockdowns restricted public gathering in Sydney to no more than 20 people, City People convened a webinar asking a fundamental question: how can arts and culture continue to connect people in public spaces? Hosted by Michael Cohen (City People), the session brought together Fiona Winning — Director of Programming at Sydney Opera House (Vale Fi

Authors: Chris Fox (Studio Chris Fox, The University of Sydney), Sascha Bohnenberger-Fehr (Bollinger+Grohmann, Swinburne University of Technology) Re/Place Pavilion is a public installation exploring circular economy principles through the reuse and reconfiguration of timber structural elements. Developed collaboratively by Chris Fox and Sascha Bohnenberger-Fehr, the project investigates how salvaged materials can be reimagined as high-value architectural components. Construc

3 September 2022, Elizabeth Bryan, Channel 9 News Work is underway to transform three smoke stacks at #Rozelle into a public artwork. The artist is promising towering sculptures of greenery and steel to compliment surrounding parklands - but not everyone's convinced. https://twitter.com/9NewsSyd/status/1565980890236329984

4 December 2017, Matt O'Sullivan , The Sydney Morning Herald They carried thousands of Sydneysiders each day for more than eight decades. And, while their days in operation ended early this year, parts of the four wooden escalators that adorned Wynyard Station remain as part of a large sculpture suspended above their modern replacements. Known as "Interloop", the sculpture loops together two pairs of reconfigured escalators more than 50 metres long and incorporating 244 woo

Interloop won the Nation Trust Judges' Choice 2018 and is listed on the National Trust Register by the National Trust of Australia (NSW) https://apps.environment.nsw.gov.au/dpcheritageapp/ViewHeritageItemDetails.aspx?ID=4803268

6 June 2021, Mike Dalton, Channel 9 News A new festival is aiming to get us onto our feet and into Sydney's streets as the winter solstice approaches and our nights become longer. https://twitter.com/9NewsSyd/status/1401459627846406144

The Jury commends the winning Submission as a compelling response authored by a truly collaborative team who supports the ambition of a conceptual idea. The landscape architecture is characterised by a single idea for the ground plane and canopy surface across the site, enabling a sense of balance in the spaces created. The Submission provides consideration of a different way of looking to the future of landscape architecture in Australia….. https://worldlandscapearchitect.c

Transport for NSW. Chris Fox 'Interloop' A new heritage-inspired artwork has been unveiled featuring parts of the iconic wooden escalators at Wynyard Station’s York Street entrance, marking the official completion of the Wynyard Station Upgrade. The upgraded station features a wider concourse, increased station capacity from 100,000 to 150,000 people per day, improved accessibility with new lifts and escalators, better facilities and amenities, improved pedestrian flows and m

Commute is a light-based public artwork that visualises patterns of daily movement through time, tracing the journeys of workers connected to the historic Arnott’s factory site.

Public Art in the City of Sydney Interloop at Wynyard Station is one of the most recognisable public artworks in Sydney and is featured as a key image within the documented list of public art across the City. Its inclusion highlights the work’s cultural significance and its role in redefining how infrastructure can be transformed through art. Originally constructed from decommissioned escalators within the station, Interloop exemplifies a shift toward integrated, site-specifi