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

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

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.

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

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.

Spirit of the Escalator Artist Chris Fox has over 25 years of experience in working with the 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.

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,

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

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

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

"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

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

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,...

The New South Wales Government has announced AKIN as the winning design team in its Barangaroo Harbour Park Design Competition, a project that will transform a prime stretch of Sydney’s waterfront into vital open space. AKIN is a First Nations-led and Sydney-based team made up of Yerrabingin, Architectus, Flying Fish Blue, Jacob Nash Design, and Studio Chris Fox, with Arup as engineering consultants. https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/first-look-at-the-park-that-will-tra

13 December 2022, TIMOTHY ALOUANI-ROBY, INDESIGN LIVE Re/place has been installed for this year’s Albury Summer Pavilion! Studio Chris Fox has partnered with Bollinger+Grohmann engineers, the University of Sydney and Swinburne University of Technology to create this temporary installation with an experimental approach to materials and circular economy. Collaboration is at the heart of Re/place, designed by Studio Chris Fox in a research partnership with Bollinger+Grohmann en

7 December 2017, Luke Wong, ABC Radio Sydney A grand sculpture installed at Wynyard Railway Station is attracting public praise for its...

2 September 2022, Michael Koziol, The Sydney Morning Herald It’s the latest piece of public art poised to polarise Sydney: an ambitious...

3 September 2022, Elizabeth Bryan, Channel 9 News Work is underway to transform three smoke stacks at #Rozelle into a public artwork. ...

14 December 2021, Michael Bleby, The Australian Financial Review - Life & Leisure Spiderman is coming to Rozelle. Well, if not the...

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...

7 September 2020, Tili Bensley-Nettheim, Australian Design Review Artist Chris Fox has unveiled a new public artwork in Sydney’s...

26 August 2020, Ariela Bard, Broadsheet The 350-square-metre sculpture is by Sydney artist Chris Fox, who also created a mesmerising...