View facing the Royal Womens Hospital Melbourne.
This bronze sculpture was created by noted Melbourne sculptor Michael Meszaros and commissioned by the Harold Mitchell Foundation for the opening of the new hospital in June 2008. It represents the old days of medicine and the change that has taken place in the medical field over the years.
View facing Grattan Street.
It expresses the busy comings and goings of women to and from the hospital. It shows, on the side approaching the hospital, a very pregnant woman ready to give birth, a doctor with a stethoscope and a woman with an identity badge who could be a nurse or official. On the side away from the hospital there is a woman holding a newborn baby, another with a developing tummy who has been in for a checkup and another woman who could be a visitor or a gynaecology patient.
The work is curved in plan so that those approaching are focussing on a point at the entrance and those departing are radiating out into the community. Altogether it expresses the hospital as centre point for women and women's health serving the wider community. It is a single continuous sheet of material suggesting that women are connected to each other through the work of the hospital .
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