Featured in the latest issue of ELLE Decoration UK, One Sydney Harbour is Renzo Piano's landmark residential development overlooking Sydney Harbour, with interiors by State of Craft. Conceived as the final chapter in Barangaroo's transformation, the project establishes a refined dialogue between architecture, landscape and light.
Richeldis Fine Art has curated the art collection across both the Penthouse and Sub-Penthouse residences, conceiving two complementary spatial propositions that respond to the architectural and interior language of the project and its extraordinary relationship with Sydney Harbour.
Conceived as an extension of the architecture itself, the curatorial programme takes the Australian landscape as its point of departure. Geology, minerality, topography, light and atmosphere become the primary curatorial language, translated through abstraction, material-led practice and sculptural form. Rather than depicting the landscape, the collection embodies its physical presence—its density, luminosity, scale and elemental character—allowing art and architecture to exist as a single spatial proposition.
Bringing together institutional artists working across abstraction, minimalism and material-led practice, alongside leading Australian artists and a new generation of emerging international painters, the collection reflects a curatorial ambition that is both international in scope and deeply rooted in place. Painting, sculpture, textiles and ceramics are brought together not as individual works, but as a coherent material vocabulary that echoes the mineral richness of the Australian landscape, the brilliance of its light, the vastness of its horizons and the shifting atmosphere of Sydney Harbour.
A site-specific monumental relief by Mika Utzon Popov (b. 1971, Denmark), commissioned for the project, anchors the Penthouse. Responding directly to the changing light and chromatic landscape of Sydney Harbour, the work establishes a dialogue between sculpture and architecture. As the grandson of Jørn Utzon, Popov's contribution carries a particular resonance within Sydney, creating a quiet connection between two generations of architectural thinking while remaining firmly rooted in his own sculptural language.
The collection further includes An Te Liu (b. 1967, Taiwanese–Canadian) monumental bronze Idea of Islands, an exploration of geology, movement and topography; Jakob Gasteiger (b. 1953, Austria) monumental relief painting, whose deeply worked surface extends the rhythm and materiality of the interior; and a monumental painting by emerging Danish–Nigerian artist Gabriel J. Bødker (b. 1997), whose expansive fields of colour evoke the scale, atmosphere and vastness of the Australian landscape. Across the wider collection, works by Lottie Consalvo (b. 1983, Australia), Terri Brooks (b. 1957, Australia), Clementine Stoney Maconachie (b. 1981, Australia) and senior Pitjantjatjara artist Derek Jungarrayi Thompson (b. 1976, Australia) further reinforce the project's dialogue between material, landscape and place.
Featured Artists: Alana Wilson (b. 1989, Australia), An Te Liu (b. 1967, Taiwanese–Canadian), Claire Allum (United Kingdom), Clementine Stoney Maconachie (b. 1981, Australia), Derek Jungarrayi Thompson (b. 1976, Australia), Gabriel J. Bødker (b. 1997, Danish–Nigerian), Jakob Gasteiger (b. 1953, Austria), Joaquim Chancho (b. 1943, Spain), Lawrence Calver (United Kingdom), Lottie Consalvo (b. 1983, Australia), Luke Shadbolt (Australia), Michaël de Kok (b. 1958, The Netherlands), Michael Rex (New Zealand), Mika Utzon Popov (b. 1971, Denmark), Nancy Constandelia (Australia), Ryan Hoffmann (Australia), Suzie Idiens (British–Australian) and Terri Brooks (b. 1957, Australia).
