Steel sculptures by Antony Gormley at Lake Ballard

The artwork is a collection of 51 steel sculptures standing over ten square kilometres apart, on the white salt plain of Lake Ballard near Menzies in Western Australia. The sculptures travelled 780 kms from the foundry in Perth to the site on Lake Ballard, and it took a team of 18 volunteers 4 days to install all 51 sculptures. Temperatures on the site during the installation process reached 46 degrees Celsius.

Lake Ballard is also a significant part of the region's salt lake system. It is a breeding habitat for many species of water fowl, as well as banded stilt which feeds on a special type of brine shrimp that only hatches after heavy rain. It should be pointed out that this is a very rare occurrence, having only happened 7 times in 215 years at Lake Ballard.