New Zealand-born, Australia-based artist Mike Hewson creates playgrounds that, at first glance, look more like construction sites than places to play.
He now has five permanent installations across Australia, including sites with boulders balanced on what look like impossibly small wheels, and palm trees hanging five metres in the air, making them hard to miss and even harder to resist.
His latest installation is tucked four stories down, inside a former World War II oil tank deep beneath Sydney, and includes a milk tank transformed into a steam room, sauna and barbecue.
Mike Hewson joins Emile Donovan to discuss his philosophy of risk and play.
Mike Hewson's Rocks on Wheels' sculpture park playground in Melbourne is one of the artist's permanent installations which invite old and young to play, explore and take risks Photo: Mike Hewson
