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Street of Love

Heidi Kenyon

This artwork is part of the City of Music Laneway Project to celebrate Paul Kelly Lane.

Artist Heidi Kenyon has created light-based artworks based on Paul Kelly’s songs “Love is an oft-travelled theme in songwriting, but Paul Kelly’s honesty and vulnerability keeps me coming back for more. Love in all its guises; the yearning, kinship, sadness, exquisite beauty, addiction and complication. The solace and quiet understanding from a partner, an old friend, in coming home.

My artwork features lyrics from Paul Kelly songs that can be made complete by the word love, and employs the moon as a metaphor for its shapeshifting form. It responds to the rich character of the laneway, and asks passers-by to look up and bring their own stories to these heavenly bodies— riffing off the song Beautiful Promise (2010) with the lyrics “love don’t shine steady, it waxes and wanes”.

Paul Kelly Lane, Adelaide

Year Produced

2022

Materials

Aluminium, Acrylic, LED lighting

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