Skywhale soars once again in the skies over Canberra

The 30-metre inflatable balloon returns after nearly six years but without her ‘strong and gentle’ partner Skywhalepapa For six years, nine months and 27 days Canberra’s skies had missed her. But on Monday morning one of Australia’s most memorable and polarising artworks, the bulbous and beautiful Skywhale, was home.At dawn the 30-metre inflatable balloon with “a calm, benign expression” and 10 pendulous teats soared once again through a sky deprived for so lo