Turrbal and Yuggera
Queensland
Brisbane
Sun Stadium is a public artwork by Bundjalung/Ngāpuhi artist Amrita Hepi in collaboration with Wiradjuri artist Jazz Money, Sibling Architecture, Five Mile Radius, and Dialogue Office. Located at the University of Queensland’s St Lucia campus, the circular installation functions as both a gathering space and an interactive sundial. Inspired by choreography, the project explores movement, time, and spatial awareness in relation to the sun.
The design removes the traditional sundial gnomon, allowing users to cast their own shadow on the ground surface. Jazz Money’s inscribed palindromic poem links the passage of time with language rather than numbers. Five Mile Radius developed custom materiality from refuse, and Dialogue Office provided project coordination.
Sun Stadium transforms the landscape into a site for reflection, interaction, and everyday exchange, encouraging engagement with time and place. The work’s presence invites the university community to gather, move, and experience the shifting rhythms of the sun.
A humble testament to the power of interdisciplinary synergies and collaboration, Sun Stadium invites a playful and poetic pause within a busy university campus. Embedded within the landscape, the project invites a small moment for connection with one’s surroundings and Country. Its innovative use of recycled materials reflects a high standard of craftsmanship and a considered approach to sustainability. Through the collective expertise of its design and construction teams, this project seamlessly merges the traditional boundaries of architecture with artistic expression.
Sun Stadium is a compelling collaboration between poetry, architecture, contemporary art, and choreography. Conceived by artist and choreographer Amrita Hepi, in collaboration with poet Jazz Money, artist Christopher Bassi, and architects Five Mile Radius and Sibling Architecture, the project transforms a campus entry point into a site for reflection, participation, and presence.
The work is an analemmatic sundial constructed from recycled materials that invites visitors to cast their own shadow to mark solar time and trace the embedded poetry across its surface. The experience offers a poetic encounter grounded in Country and place.
The design exemplifies sustainability through its material choices and demonstrates a sensitive integration within the landscape. At once a landmark and a gathering space, Sun Stadium extends a generous, inclusive invitation to slow down, connect, and take part in the choreography of time, poetry, architecture, and place.
Lauren Crockett, Project Architect
Hannah Lim, Graduate of Architecture
Simone Chait, Graduate of Architecture
Armita Hepi, Artist
Jazz Money, Artist
Dialogue Office, Art & Culture Consultant
Five Mile Radius, Material Designer
The Australian Institute of Architects acknowledges First Nations peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the lands, waters, and skies of the continent now called Australia.
We express our gratitude to their Elders and Knowledge Holders whose wisdom, actions and knowledge have kept culture alive.
We recognise First Nations peoples as the first architects and builders. We appreciate their continuing work on Country from pre-invasion times to contemporary First Nations architects, and respect their rights to continue to care for Country.
