Council brings in crooked palm trees for Crown Street Mall public art project

Kate McIlwain
Updated October 27 2017 - 4:19pm, first published 8:30am
Urban jungle: This palm will form part of the new art work. Picture: Adam McLean.
Urban jungle: This palm will form part of the new art work. Picture: Adam McLean.

The unusually bent, uprooted Cabbage Tree palm which will form the centrepiece of Wollongong City Council’s $450,000 public art project has arrived in Crown Street Mall.

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Kate McIlwain

Kate McIlwain

Journalist

For more than a decade, I've helped the Illawarra Mercury set the news agenda across the region. Currently I'm the paper's health reporter - covering the stories of Illawarra workers and residents in the wake of a global pandemic and at a time where our health systems are stretched to the limit.

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