This twelve-metre-high sculpture by Michael Riddle, developed from the artist’s previous series Everything’s broken in which each sculpture was intended as the physical embodiment of an emotional shock. Referencing the fragility of the human experience, Iconoclast was made following the death of the artist’s parents. Problematising perceptions of physical permanence, Riddle takes a symbol of modernity – an electrical pylon – and crumples it under the weight of an enormous rock.

Image: Michael Riddle, Iconoclast 2017, Peninsula Link Freeway, Melbourne. Photo Steve Brown.