For Immediate Release · 2023
Ken Kelleher’s OOLALA Installed at C Future Lab
The three-meter stainless steel sculpture creates a focal point within an innovation-led urban environment.
China
CHINA — Internationally recognized sculptor Ken Kelleher, also known as Anchorball, has announced the completion, installation or presentation of OOLALA, a major project from his expanding international practice.
A three-meter stainless steel sculpture installed at Centralcon's C Future Lab — an innovation platform dedicated to exploring city patterns and the relationship between urban life and public space.
The work brings Kelleher's Elemental vocabulary into a forward-looking cultural setting, using resolved form and a highly finished surface to create a focal point that reflects the ambitions of the space around it.
OOLALA demonstrates how a compact monumental work can anchor an interior or semi-public environment without losing sculptural authority. For institutions, innovation campuses and private collections, it offers a strong example of art functioning as both intellectual signal and social centre.
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The best public sculpture gives people a reason to gather. OOLALA was made to be that centre of gravity — a form that draws the eye and holds a space together.— Ken Kelleher (aka Anchorball)
The project forms part of Kelleher’s broader practice across Luminal Pop and Elemental sculpture, spanning monumental public art, private collections, institutional commissions, destination placemaking and artist-led cultural activations. Across these contexts, Kelleher develops works that are immediately recognizable while retaining the material ambition, authorship and permanence required of serious contemporary sculpture.
For collectors, galleries and cultural institutions, the work reflects a practice at an important point of international development. Kelleher’s sculptures are now established across North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, with projects ranging from unique private commissions and tightly controlled editions to major architectural installations and public-facing cultural experiences.
For developers, hospitality groups and brand partners, the project demonstrates how original contemporary art can create identity, emotional connection and long-term cultural value. Rather than operating as decoration, Kelleher’s work is conceived to become a defining image of its setting: a landmark, gathering point and visual memory that audiences associate directly with the place.