What Endures…

Seamlessly blending art, architecture, and culture, the artwork transforms the façade into a flowing tribute to sandstone, river, and Country.

Conceptual Narrative

The waterways need to be respected as the Dharug people would do through sustainable practices. The linework references the many people that would come together and connect along these shores, celebrating a diverse community both in ancient and contemporary ways.

Linework Drawn by Indigenous Artist Yukupin

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Project
What Endures…

Client
Sekisui House

Date
2025

Location
Wentworth Point, NSW

Indigenous Country
Wann-gal / Dharug

The main entry point to the ‘Future Proposed Footpath’ from Lapwing Street presents an opportunity to create an integrated artwork in the form of a facade treatment.

The facade enables a higher height of fixing for further visibility from the retail precinct along Hill Road.

This building will have a community of people continually using the facilities,
engaging with this building and the artwork on a frequent basis.

The design intent for this artwork is to transform the facade and curved architecture beyond its practical purpose.

Transforming the facade into an artwork which provides an acknowledgment of country in a more highly visible position and create further engagement of people through the ‘Future Proposed Street’.

Concept

The land and river ways you are on are traditional lands of the Wangal and Wategora people, clans of the Dharug nation. Aboriginal people have occupied the fertile river valley for over 30,000 years.

Through millions of years, a meandering pathway of flowing water cutting its way through sandstone bedrock, formed what we now know as Parramatta river, ‘place where the eels lie down’.

Constructed through lines remininscient of running water and sandstone, my artwork is significant of the saltwater and freshwater meeting each other, forming an estuary that supports a diverse mass of biodiversity, a system that the dharug people protected through numerous methods of sustainable cultural practices formed through thousands of years worth of in depth knowledge and connection to this land.

Furthermore, the lines are suggestive of the life that this river supports, which brings people together. Within an ancient and contemporary setting, this place once was, and still is a beautiful meeting ground for people to share experiences, story and culture.

Always was always will be.

Technicality

The project required an innovative and complex creative process.

Due to the scale (13 meters long) and complex geometry, the design team utilised parametric design and 3D modelling to aid the design development and construction of the artwork.

The positioning required extreme accuracy to ensure a seamless alignment over the curved wall, ensuring a precise transition.