The Stratford Arts Trail is an all-abilities adventure in art, music and children’s discovery, created in 2012.
Time: 45 min
Distance: 3km
Created by: Kathy Luxford-Carr
Stainless steel and local stone
70 Tyers St Stratford
Positioned outside the Literary centre of town Shakespeare’s globe indicates the start of the Arts Trial and highlights Stratford’s connection with the other sister city locations around the world.
Created by: David Howell
Ground Reclaimed brick and Mild Steel
1 Raymond St Stratford
Juliet sits perched on the balcony of her tower waiting for her Romeo.
Created by: Stratford Community and “WOMB”
Timber, Ceramic and Cement Render installation
McMillan St Stratford
A collaboration of works created by the Stratford community, the Garden for Humanity is an evolution of local creativity and tells stories through indigenous art and other local creatives. It is truly a thought space in every sense.
Created by: Gavin Roberts / Ken Free
Redgum and Galvanised Steel
McMillan St Stratford
Made from a local sacred Red Gum stump removed for road development “Torn Heart” tells not only of Shakespeare’s loves lost but the loss of heart through the destruction of our indigenous identity and history.
Created by: Anthony Powers
Mild Steel and Timber
Apex Park/Apex Park Rd Stratford
The tempest is the most Shakespearean of all sculptures. In a major flood event Stratford becomes an island, this boat floats in the flood water shipwrecked on an island full of Magic and intrigue.
Created by: David Luxford
Concrete and Fibreglass
McMillan St Stratford
We all see things through different eyes, is “Boran” the big man looking into the distance or into the future. What do you see? This sculpture includes casts of the artists faces on the river side of the wall.
Created by: Gina Callander, Gavin Roberts
Mild Steel
Avon River/McMillan St Stratford
Originally made by Gina Callander in 2012 the witches were and ephemeral sculpture that were replaced in 2021 with a work by Gavin Roberts. Macbeth’s witches sit around the original Cauldron.
Created by: Kathy Luxford-Carr
Concrete and Hebel Stone
McAlister St Stratford
Wisper words of love or deceit through the mouths of the talking walls. Based on The Mechanicals scene in Shakespeare famous comedy Mid-Summer Nights Dream the talking walls have secrets to discover.
Created by: Gavin Roberts
Mild Steel
17 Dixon St Stratford
A place to write your own sonnets of comedy or tragedy on Shakespeare’s Stone Tablet or just sit in thought while watching the bustle of our little Hamlet.