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Media Release • 10 Aug 21

Sampling the Future

Alex Goad
Living seawall project
in the field
Pirjo HAIKOLA
Urchin corals (2020)
Purple sea urchin (Heliocidaris erythrogramma) and Black sea urchin (Centrostephanus rodgersii) biopolymer
(100.0 x 740.0 x 377.0 cm)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds donated by Brendan and Grace O’Brien, 2021
2020.740
© Pirjo Haikola. Photo: Sean Fennessy
Production of Pirjo Haikola’s Urchin corals 2020, Commissioned by the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Purchased with funds donated by Brendan and Grace O’Brien, 2020. Photo Bradley Erickson
Image courtesy of NASA/Chris Gunn