Title: Twiggywiggy
Artist: Alexander Knox
Medium/materials: Aluminium and stainless steel
Year installed: 2025
Location: Keysborough Community Hub, 10 Villiers Road, Keysborough
About the Artwork
Twiggywiggy is a playable sculpture inspired by a fallen River Red Gum branch, echoing the forms of gumnuts, leaves, and bushland shelters. Its organic arches create an open, cubby-like space that sparks curiosity and imaginative play.
Developed through site research and a workshop with Keysborough Gardens Primary School students, the design draws on local flora and the creative ways children reimagine play with natural materials.
Twiggywiggy invites children into a larger-than-life bushland world, where a gum leaf can become a shop counter or a gumnut a mixing bowl. Rooted in cycles of renewal and regeneration, it celebrates the unbounded creativity of childhood and the deep connection between community and landscape.
“With Twiggywiggy I set out to create a space for imaginative play inspired by the organic branching forms of the surrounding River Redgums, heavy with gumnuts. I wanted the sculpture to suggest a place of secret bush ceremony, inviting children to explore and invent their own stories. The work draws on the chance shapes of a fallen twig, re-imagined as a landscape where play, discovery and imagination can take root.” - Alexander Knox
Interpretation for Children
Twiggywiggy is a big sculpture made for play.
It was inspired by gum trees, gumnuts, and leaves from the local bush. Its wiggly arches make fun giant cubby-like spaces inviting you to explore, crawl, imagine, and create your own games. You can turn a gum leaf into a shop counter, or a gumnut into a mixing bowl.
