5 m water rat for Kurilpa Derby
West End artist Dana Hain is fulfilling an artist vision to create GURIL, an ongoing monument for the 2017 Kurilpa Derby. Guril, a mobile, mega-sized, water rat sculpture, will join the Boundary Street parade at the 10th anniversary Kurilpa Derby at 1:30pm, Sunday 5 November. At over five metres long, Guril will enlist a team of volunteers to pull it by hand during West End’s Kurilpa Derby. Hain purchased a second-hand boat trailer and repurposed it to create the base of the float. Modelled on the guril, or water rat, the float is being created from donated materials: timber,...
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