Some of the nation’s and the world’s most well-known icons are hanging out on a quiet Warrnambool street.
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Barack Obama, Pauline Hanson and even Crocodile Dundee himself are sharing a bit of friendly banter in the latest project by artist Gary McCosh.
The self-confessed “crazy poet” is not finished yet, he plans to add Maxwell Smart, of Get Smart fame, and Warrnambool’s own Kylie Gaston to the crowd at the Koroit and Japan streets intersection for the Dispute on the Hill.
The lifelike installation is drawing interested onlookers to the site every Sunday, with poems accompanying each big name.
McCosh said the motivation behind the project was simple: “I just like to make people laugh,” he said.
The installation has received in-principle support from Warrnambool City Council and follows on from McCosh’s Mystery in the Trees project that hid 20 native animal models in Warrnambool’s CBD.
