A PAIR of giant pink snails will reside in Belmore Park for the next few months.
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The snails, on the Market St side of the park, are on loan for a limited time from the City of Sydney following a short stay in Albury.
While the snails are a beauty to look at, they also appear to be a target for vandals.
It is understood they have been placed strategically in line of sight of one of Goulburn Mulwaree Council's security cameras.
They will also be filled with sandbags in a bid to prevent tipping. Goulburn Regional Art Gallery director Jane Cush negotiated the snails' visit.
"We're very excited to have these magnificent creatures on display here in Goulburn. The snails have told me they've heard a lot of great things about Goulburn and after all the rain and greening of pasture, they've decided it would make an excellent place to take a rest," Ms Cush said.
"It's taken them quite a long time to get here, being snails, but we're sure they will enjoy our country hospitality and have a great stopover."
The snails were created for the Art and About Festival in 2014 by the Cracking Art Group collective from Italy, France and Belgium.
Founded in 1993, the Cracking Art Group creates public installations of massive sculptural animals made from brightly coloured recyclable plastic and sees its work as "an ethical necessity in the face of environmental degradation".
The group's works examine the differences between the natural and the synthetic worlds.
The artworks are inspired by the belief that individuals may easily ignore a water bottle in a stream, but are less likely to overlook a huge, fluorescent sculpture; and that once they do, they cannot help but think about their effect on their ecosystem.