'Tin Kan 2' Music Festival - Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia - Figurative Public Sculpture on Waymarking.com

On a slightly raised rectangular platform is a scene of five jazz musicians as if on a stage. To the left (northeastern corner) is a lady in a sky-blue dress playing an electric piano, which has the keys extending down the side, over the floor and over the edge. In front of her is a black-jacket (~tuxedo) wearing trumpet-playing artist. To his left is a double-bass artist strumming away, and in front of him is a brownish lady with her hands on her hips. At back, on the right is a seated drum player, with his kick drum labelled with 'Tin Kan 2'. They all look they have been enlarged from a model made of playdough. (I am not sure if it was originally on the sculptures, but it looks like that they have each been hit by a 'drive-by' paint-ball shooter.)

The Festival was ... "Conceived by a group of locals in 1989 as a way to attract visitors and raise the profile of the town, the first Wangaratta Festival of Jazz (as it was then known) was staged in 1990, with attendances at around 2500.

"Since then – with blues added to the program in 1994 – it has grown to become an internationally renowned event, attracting around 25,000 visitors, and more than 200 jazz and blues artists from the USA, the UK, Europe and Australia."
[ex-Tin Kan 2 Sculpture: Monuments Australia]

The musical sculpture, with commemorative plaque in front

In front of the sculptural grouping is a bronze plaque mounted on the concrete skirt of the platform, which reads:

To celebrate the 10th year of the
WANGARATTA FESTIVAL OF JAZZ
"Tin Kan 2"
created by Ann Ferguson-Durkin
funded by Arts Victoria
unveiled by the Mayor of the Rural City of Wangaratta
Cr G. Dinning
October 1999

Visited: 1545, Wednesday, 2 March, 2022

Name or use 'Unknown' if not known: Tinkan Figure Type: Human Artist Name or use 'Unknown' if not known: Ann Ferguson-Durkin Date created or placed or use 'Unknown' if not known: 1999 Materials used: Ceramics Location: Merriwa Park

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