Kaldor Public Art Projects Royal Botanic Garden Sydney, Australia JONATHAN JONES barrangal dyara (skin and bones) 17.09— 03.10.16 Download the Project 32 App now at kaldor.org Project Hours 10am—Sunset #barrangaldyara From our Stakeholders Welcome I am thrilled that the Australian Government The project is an opportunity to tell a The latest Kaldor Public Art Project, The Gadigal clan is one Working with Jonathan Jones on barrangal 2016 has been a very big year for the Royal is able to support such a groundbreaking remarkable story from Sydney’s history that barrangal dyara (skin and bones), will be an dyara (skin and bones) has been a wonderful Botanic Garden Sydney—the 200th Birthday project. barrangal dyara (skin and bones) will had largely been forgotten. I believe that impressive temporary artwork which will of twenty-nine clans personal experience for me, my admiration of Australia’s oldest scientific institution, be an important moment not just in Sydney’s the ambitious scale of the project will be of complement the City’s Eora Journey. for Jonathan has grown as the project has and second-oldest botanic garden in the history but also for our nation’s story. international significance and remembered I commend artist Jonathan Jones for that make up the Eora progressed. His deep connection to his Southern Hemisphere. for many years to come. recalling an almost forgotten event in nation. The Eora nation ancestors and country has given me an This amazing Kaldor project, barrangal Minister for Communications, Sydney’s history, the destruction by fire insight into a different Australia. dyara (skin and bones), delivered by the Minister for Arts and Senator Premier of New South Wales and of the Garden Palace in Sydney’s Royal is bounded by nature’s barrangal dyara (skin and bones) is a remarkable Jonathan Jones, has been The Hon. Mitch Fifield Minister for Western Sydney Botanic Garden in 1882 and the loss of own: the Hawkesbury multi-dimensional work engaging us on perfectly timed to celebrate our 200 years The Hon. Mike Baird MP countless Aboriginal artefacts. It will serve many levels, its focus is one of celebration. as a botanic garden and our ongoing - as a timely reminder of the importance of River to the north, the Although a temporary project I am sure connection with the traditional owners of - valuing Aboriginal culture and heritage. Nepean River to the west, its impact will have a lasting presence in the land. I cannot imagine a better way to Jonathan Jones’ expansive and ambitious our cultural landscape and understanding respectfully pay tribute to our Indigenous work revives a distant and mostly forgotten For 45 years Kaldor Public Art Projects The Right Hon. Lord Mayor of Sydney and the Georges River of history. and European past than through this artistic memory of these gardens, this city and our has played a catalytic role in the NSW arts Clover Moore to the south. barrangal A project of this scale has been made work, and wish Jonathan and the whole nation. Using skill, craftsmanship and sector, transforming the way the public possible with the partnership and support of team from the Kaldor Public Art Projects imagination, Jonathan causes us to experiences art and culture. The NSW - dyara (skin and bones) all three tiers of Government, Corporations, well in this stunning exhibition. consider how a sudden and devastating Government is proud to partner with Kaldor sits within Gadigal land, Foundations and Individuals, to all of whom loss of culturally significant objects and on its 32nd project, barrangal dyara (skin and Commonwealth Bank has been proud to I extend my deep thanks and gratitude. Kim Ellis materials continues to resonate gener- bones), a collaboration with NSW Aboriginal support Kaldor Public Art Projects over the Aboriginal land. I’d like Thank you to the Royal Botanic Garden Executive Director, ations later. barrangal dyara (skin and communities to celebrate the world’s oldest last four years. We are delighted to help to take this opportunity Sydney, its management and staff and to Botanic Gardens and Centennial bones) enables us to know more about living cultures. bring barrangal dyara (skin and bones) to our small team at Kaldor Public Art Projects, Parklands our past and its impact will linger for a the community. This extraordinary project to extend a warm and for their enthusiasm and dedication. long time. Deputy Premier of New South Wales will bring to life an important, and neglected, sincere welcome to all Minister for Justice and Police, piece of our Aboriginal heritage. In doing John Kaldor AO Rupert Myer AO Minister for the Arts and so, it will also remind us of the power of art my Aboriginal brothers Director, Kaldor Public Art Projects Chair, Australia Council for the Arts Minister for Racing and creativity. We congratulate Jonathan and sisters, all our Torres The Hon. Troy Grant MP Jones and the Kaldor team for their vision - and passion. Strait Islander brothers - and sisters and all our The Garden Palace stood in the Royal Ian Narev Botanic Garden from 1879 to 1882 as a In the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney’s 200th Managing Director and CEO, non-Aboriginal brothers grand exhibition space housing thousands year, barrangal dyara (skin and bones) will Commonwealth Bank and sisters—welcome of Aboriginal objects. Its story, of which few share an important story about the heritage people are aware, is a fascinating part of of this site and Indigenous Australians with to Gadigal land, Sydney’s cultural heritage. visitors from around the world. Aboriginal land. Welcome. The NSW Government and the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney are proud to Minister for Trade, Tourism and Welcome. Welcome. support Jonathan Jones’ barrangal dyara Major Events and Minister for Sport (skin and bones) exhibition, to raise The Hon. Stuart Ayres MP Uncle Charles Madden awareness of the Palace’s place in Sydney’s history and the effect its destruction by Gadigal Elder fire had on both the city and the nation’s Aboriginal heritage. Environment and Heritage Minister The Hon. Mark Speakman The Project 32 App activates as you walk the site, allowing you to hear conversations that inspired the project. Listen to insights from cultural leaders, historians, theorists, artists, writers and cultural practitioners as they discuss the ideas surrounding 1. Welcome Download the Project barrangal dyara (skin and bones). To use the app, simply 2. Artist Interview Families: Pick up your free 32 App from kaldor.org download and enable bluetooth and location services 4–9. Artwork and Highlights Activity Booklet for fun, or from the iTunes or on your phone. You will receive notifications as you 10. Talks and Events hands-on ways to explore Google Play stores, experience the project. Please be mindful of other 12. About Us the project! searching ‘Project 32’. visitors by listening to any audio using your headphones. 1 “ Aboriginal ways What is the significance of the project How can visitors best experience title, barrangal dyara (skin and bones)? the project? of understanding, The name ‘barrangal dyara’ is from the The project is physically made up of Aboriginal ways of local Sydney Language, barrangal three components: a native meadow of JONATHAN meaning ‘skin’ and dyara, ‘bones’. Working kangaroo grass (Themeda triandra) at the doing things, involve with the Sydney Language directly links heart of the building, thousands of white the project to the local Sydney context shields marking the original building’s multiple knowledge and knowledge system and honours the perimeter, and several soundscapes in JONES: systems. We work across relationship my projects have with local Aboriginal languages made in collabora- Gadigal Elders Uncle Charles (Chicka) tion with south-eastern communities. dialogues, across ideas Madden and Uncle Allen Madden. It’s not As you walk through the physical and we weave things only culturally appropriate to employ the artwork, there are several ways that you INTERVIEW together. In a more Sydney Language for the naming of this can engage in the conversations that project, but awakening the local Sydney in many ways inspired it. Through the traditional Western Language is an important element of the project app, the invigilators working on project. barrangal dyara peels back the site, and our extensive public program, approach knowledge is ‘skin’ of the site to reveal the ‘bones’ of the you can hear from cultural leaders, The vast Garden Palace (1879–1882) that often broken down into Garden Palace. Citing the seminal Judy historians, theorists, artists, writers and once existed at the Royal Botanic Garden Watson 1997 print series our bones in your cultural practitioners as they discuss the Sydney has been forgotten by many. sections. What we’re collections, our hair in your collections and ideas surrounding the project. Through- What inspired you to revisit and trying to do here is put our skin in your collections, the title refers out the development of the project, we reinterpret this story? to both the practice of collecting Aboriginal have pulled all these people together to When I first went looking for cultural people at the table to objects and displaying them as part of reimagine a building, and to reimagine material from where my family is from, talk together again and ethnological collections, as well as our a history that we’ve lost. I found out that much of this material, like connection to country. Embedded within a lot of other material from south-east to reimagine a building, the landscape are our ancestors, our past, communities, was destroyed in the to reimagine a history and, like the Garden Palace, their skin and Hear Jonathan Jones Garden Palace fire of 1882. Ever since, bones make up country.