Meet Mike Hewson, the artist behind Melbourne's 'risky' playground

 Mike Hewson could be Australia's most scrutinised artist — not necessarily by gallery-goers, but by the harshest critics of all: parents.  

Mr Hewson designs and builds "risky" playgrounds, typified by climbable rocks with with jutting edges, buckets placed precariously on top of one another, and misshapen iron monkey bars.

But his designs are anything but haphazard. 

Each tiny detail is painstakingly planned to the millimetre.

Mr Hewson's new $2.5 million playground in Southbank, which he calls Rocks on wheels, is his first in Melbourne.

Read More: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-09/mike-hewson-risk-play-playground-artist-melbourne/101628342



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