The University of South Australia graduate will create a new three-dimensional work to appear on the ground floor of the Hilton Adelaide – among one of the most trafficked foyers in the CBD.
The Hilton Adelaide Emerging Artist Commission is an initiative of the Hilton Adelaide and the Helpmann Academy, designed to grant an early-career artist a prominent, city-centre platform to create a significant new work.
Interestingly, ambitious public sculptural works around Adelaide are something of a family tradition for Bellosguardo, with his grandfather Bert Flugelman responsible for the perhaps the single most iconic piece of public art in Adelaide: The Spheres, better known, of course, as the ‘Mall’s Balls’.
For his part Bellosguardo has already made his own mark on the city, with his sculpture 2017 Donkaay currently sitting on the corner of Morphett and Hindley Street, along with a 2019 installation at Adelaide Airport dubbed Flight Paths.
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