Bicentenary gift to Australia
Artist Ieva Pocius with the statue Australian Lithuanian Community Bicentenary gift to Australia A memorial to represent Australia’s welcoming and providing a good life to the migrants. What will remain to represent Lithuanian life in Australia. The idea of donating a sculpture by an Australian Lithuanian sculptor was first raised by Dr Ben Vingilis in 1984 and formerly adopted by the Australian Lithuanian Federal Council in 1986. A committee was established to raise funds and to call for expression of interstate form sculptors. The artist chosen was Ieva Pocius, well known Adelaide sculptor. Her piece was based on Eglė the Queen of Serpents which is considered one of the best-known Lithuanian fairy tales. The twelve foot bronze statue stands on a large piece of granite located at Glebe Park, corner of Ballumbir and Akuna Streets, Canberra. The statue was unveiled by Hon Ros Kelly, M.P Member for Canberra, Minister for Defence Science and Per...