Australian Country

pedal to the metal

utback sculptor Milynda Rogers confesses she had no intention of creating the world's largest outdoor sculpture exhibition when she started planting her works along the road to her home on a station in central-western Queensland. In fact, her initial motivation was to craft a few scrap metal and barbed-wire features to alleviate boredom for her daughters and neighbours' kids when they were travelling to their nearest town of Aramac. “My girls were doing school by Distance Ed and that involved a lot of driving, so I did it to give people travelling the route something to look out for,” she says. “When I'd done about 10 sculptures, someone told me people were driving out specifi cally to see

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