Watercourse sits right in the centre of the plaza that greets you on arrival at Adelaide Airport and acts as a poignant reminder of the life-affirming presence of water. 

Watercourse introduces the idea of water and its relationship to this vast arid continent. Water is a precious and often ephemeral and intermittent element in the South Australian landscape; the driest state in the driest continent in the world. 

Watercourse offers an idea of how water moves through a changeable landscape portrayed here by a variety of sculpted forms that create different movements of water in a stream of shallow gradient. This is suggestive of how water may carve sand, rock and creek beds as it gushes, or meanders on its gravity directed course of least resistance. 

The sculpted granite encourages the water to flow fastest in the upper sections. The water moves amongst different relief forms which in turn evoke a different motion of water. 

In the lower reaches the form widens and the pace of the flow slows down. There is a quieter feel to the meandering shallow forms and depth of the water.

Granite. 2013.