“An egg-shaped pile of rocks that will crumble into its environment has cost taxpayers almost $700,000 after being built in a remote section of national park near the Sunshine Coast. The Courier-Mail can reveal the Department of Environment and Resource Management, under the former state Labor government, quietly commissioned British artist Andy Goldsworthy to create the ‘not-to-be-missed attraction’, in the rugged Conondale National Park. Strangler Cairn, made from granite and slate from a local quarry, will eventually “blend into its environment” when a strangler fig grows over it… Opposition arts spokesman Jackie Trad could not say how many people had viewed the monument.” w/ photos
