Podcast on the saving of "Skater Boy" from the Ramp Sculpture from World Expo 88 a Art Buster piece

Originally on the Ramp at World Expo 88, three Skateres were to be found in 1988 by 2011 only one remained, this is the story of how that ONE became an icon of Brisbane.
Tony Moore Brisbane Times wrote 2018
The ghost-like figures that populated the World Expo site at South Bank in 1988, and elsewhere in inner-city Brisbane in the years following, have mostly disappeared.
Now, the hunt is on to find the sculptures, known as the Artbusters, which once numbered almost 90.
“They are sculptures of dancers and clowns, bushies, botanists and wide range of others and some of these haven’t been seen for 25 years,” World Expo '88 30th anniversary committee spokesman Peter Rasey said.
There were 88 sculptures specifically commissioned for Expo and, 30 years on, only 18 have been located, mostly at South Bank with others in Brisbane’s CBD.
Until recently, the famous scene of five bushies around a campfire was outside the old Department of Primary Industries building in Ann Street.
But those bushies disappeared along with the building's public servants, when they shifted to 1 William Street in 2016.
The other 70 of these pieces have disappeared into cupboards, garages, under buildings and stored as junk.
However, junk they are not.
They were white fiberglass sculptures by artists John and Judy Underwood, commissioned by Expo artistic director John Truscott.