Kaldor Public Art Projects Royal Botanic Garden , 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 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. 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. 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 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. 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.

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. in our Artist’s Insight series I’ve been struck with the loss of our that we’ve lost.” cultural material, what that loss means daily, 12:30pm on site. for our communities and how you can JONATHAN JONES move forward as a culture when you can’t readily point to your cultural heritage in museums. These issues are sadly becoming all too common in a time when refugee experiences dominate our globe. In this way Aboriginal communities and their survival offer hope to other displaced people of the world. But as I’ve worked on the project, the JONATHAN JONES. PHOTO: ZAN WIMBERLEY Garden Palace has become a symbol for the repercussions of forgetting. So many What did it mean for a building like this I’ve been thinking about this in two people I’ve spoken to about the project to burn down? ways: perhaps the trauma of losing the hadn’t known the history of this enormous The loss of this building is enormous. Garden Palace and its contents is so building that once dominated Sydney’s The Garden Palace, and the International profound that it has forced its erasure skyline both physically and conceptually. Exhibition it hosted, represents a defining from our collective consciousness—a I’ve begun to question what else we can time in Sydney’s history, a moment when moment, like others in our nation’s history, Read more about this dramatic, lost history in our forget as a community, if something so the colony was attempting to forge its that we are fearful to engage with; or project catalogue. This beautifully designed grand and visible and spoken about has identity not just within the Empire, but perhaps the fire was a kind of a cultural disappeared from our vision. Aboriginal also internationally. burn, regenerating the site for future publication is richly illustrated throughout, featuring communities have often been the victims After the International Exhibition it generations. In a way, the landscape might over 100 large-scale historical and contemporary of Australia’s ability to forget. In this way became Sydney’s cultural centre and have understood that this imperial vision the Garden Palace becomes a fault line in housed many collections. Not only did was inappropriate for Sydney and that the images and illustrations. It includes original essays and the nation’s memory, which has enabled it hold early Aboriginal collections, but cultural objects held inside were collected interviews with leading Aboriginal writers including the project to bring to the fore other it was the foundation for all the cultural so contentiously, so the fire cleansed forgotten histories. institutions in Sydney—collections including the site to make way for a more complex Bruce Pascoe—winner of two 2016 NSW Premier’s I’ve also been struck with the way we the NSW Arts Society, the Technological cultural vision. Literary Awards—Dr Jeanine Leane, Hetti Perkins as Aboriginal communities remember, and Mining Museum, the NSW branch of and through this project I’ve begun to see the Linnean Society, the Colonial Archives. and Uncle Stan Grant Sr AM, alongside Australian Aboriginal communities as the nation’s It’s these histories that have also been academics Dr Ross Gibson, Dr Peter Kohane and memory holders. Holding on to our lost, and their loss forgotten. Countless knowledge for the next generation. Aboriginal cultural objects housed in the Dr Ilaria Vanni Accarigi. Celebrating the resilience Garden Palace will never be seen again; and survival of the world’s oldest living cultures, objects our ancestors made and used, objects that our communities could barrangal dyara (skin and bones) is at the forefront of Buy your copy for $45 have built upon. a long-awaited acknowledgement and renaissance on site from 22 Sept or in of Indigenous culture and language in Australia. bookstores Australia-wide. 2 3 Program Highlights

ARTIST DEMONSTRATIONS: LUNCHTIME TALKS “ The Sydney Exhibition WE LOST MANY SHELLS, CARVING, WEAVING WESLEY ENOCH (Noonuccal Nuugi), Join celebrated Bidjigal artist and Elder Sydney Festival Director (2017–19), was certainly a public ESME TIMBERY and her daughter discusses the importance of Sydney festival of industrial MARILYN RUSSELL (Bidjigal) as they as a site of performance. CULTURAL demonstrate shell work, attend a Saturday 17 September, 1pm productivity, trade, carving demonstration by Dharug and Gundungurra Elder GREG SIMMS or ANN TOY explores the Garden Palace marketing and hear Aboriginal artists from the HANDS and its place in the political landscape consumerism. And it OBJECTS IN ON WEAVERS group from Wagga of Sydney. was also a glorious Wagga speak about their practice and Monday 19 September, 1pm demonstrate weaving. performance of colonial Esme Timbery and Marilyn Russell: DR GRACE KARSKENS shares the Saturday 17 September, 2:30pm and role and important status of Eora nationalism… The lesson THE FIRE, Sunday 18 September, 11am fisherwomen in the pre- and early to be learned from the contact years, and their beautifully Greg Simms: crafted fishing implements. difference between the Saturday 24 September, 2:30pm and Tuesday 20 September, 1pm Ethnographic Court and BUT WE HAVEN’T Sunday 25 September, 11am DR PETER YANADA MCKENZIE (Eora/ the New South Wales Hands On Weavers: Anaiwan) relates the history of the local half of the long nave was Saturday 1 October, 2:30pm, Aboriginal community of La Perouse, the progress of culture FORGOTTEN Sunday 2 and Monday 3 October, 11am including the ongoing cultural practice of boomerang-making and shell work. measured in material - Wednesday 28 September, 1pm evidence. One represents THEM ANNIVERSARY OF THE GARDEN CAROL COOPER discusses the role and the ‘primitive’ pole. The PALACE FIRE significance of shields in the south-east Commemorating the Garden Palace and the inherent use of designs and other represents the fire of 1882, Bangarra Dance Theatre incised carving within the region. pole of ‘progress’.” performs a response to barrangal dyara Saturday 1 October, 1pm In barrangal dyara (skin and bones) thousands (skin and bones). LINDA YOUNG Thursday 22 September, 7pm of bleached white shields delineate the footprint of the Garden Palace and echo the expansive rubble that remained after the fire of 1882. Based on four typical designs from Aboriginal nations of the south-east, these shields not only raise the chalky bones of the building, but speak to the thousands of shields that would have had cultural presence in this landscape over generations. This part PROTOTYPE SHIELDS FOR BARRANGAL DYARA of Gadigal land was a cultural epicentre long (SKIN AND BONES). PHOTO: ZAN WIMBERLEY before the imagination of the Garden Palace, where shields covered in ochre were used in ceremony rather than exclusively for warfare as the Ethnological Court would have had the world believe. The shields in barrangal dyara (skin and bones), however, are en masse, SHIELDS BEING PRODUCED FOR BARRANGAL DYARA (SKIN AND BONES). void of unique markings or personal designs, PHOTO: ZAN WIMBERLEY speaking to the erasure of cultural See program overview complexities through collection. on page 10 or download the Project 32 App at kaldor.org for full details. 4 5 Program Highlights

STORIES WITH LUNCHTIME TALKS “ This is the lie about the GRASSES TALK AUNTY JULIE FREEMAN LORRAINE CONNELLY-NORTHEY AUNTY JULIE FREEMAN is a Gorawarl (Waradgerie) discusses her cultural dead heart of Australia. Jerrawongarla woman, a traditional practice. Connelly-Northey fashions It wasn’t , owner of south Sydney and the South traditional forms such as koolimans (bush TO OUR Coast of New South Wales. A senior bowls) and narbongs (string bags) from they were just growing cultural knowledge holder, Aunty Julie found industrial and organic materials relates important creation narratives such as corrugated iron, fencing wire, different plants. Growing for the local environment in this special feathers and shells. plants that only need one UNBROKEN evening series. Sunday 18 September, 1pm watering, no fertiliser, but Weekends and Labour Day, 5pm DR PETER CUNEO discusses the native they did need Aboriginal - vegetation of Sydney with a particular focus on native grasses and their role people to harvest them. CONNECTION CONVERSATIONS WITH in landscape, identity and ecology. If we say ‘that plant, that ABORIGINAL KNOWLEDGE He delves into how native grasses are Presented in partnership with THE harvested and employed in degraded Aboriginal grass plant is SCHOOL OF LIFE, OLIVER COSTELLO landscapes to restore resilience and interesting’ we then have TO COUNTRY (Bundjalung) is joined by academic native plant diversity. STEPHEN MUECKE, to explore the Wednesday 21 September, 1pm to accept the history human relationship to fire, from the and why we Australians perspective of Aboriginal cultures BRUCE PASCOE (Bunurong, Yuin and and philosophy. Tasmanian), award-winning author, allowed sheep to mow Forming the heart of the artwork is a native This program is part of a series will discuss Aboriginal agriculture and it down.” meadow of kangaroo grass (Themeda triandra). of three events, each Sunday at 3pm, the role of native grasses in the exploring the intersection of Aboriginal Aboriginal economy. BRUCE PASCOE Located at what is known today as the Pioneer and Western perspectives around the Monday 3 October, 1pm Memorial Garden, the grassland marks the themes of cultural knowledge, growing up, and well-being. original location of the Garden Palace’s proud Sunday 18 September, 3pm dome, which crowned the city for international visitors as they entered Sydney Harbour. Aboriginal agriculture in the south-east of Australia saw grasslands cultivated and harvested over generations, supporting many KANGAROO GRASS FLORET. PHOTO: SABRINA LAURISTON nations and diverse cultures. Seeds were transformed into flour to produce bread with grinding stones. Controlled fire was an important tool in the development of these grasslands, and here it acts as a dual metaphor—it was responsible for the destruction of the palace and the objects held inside, but serves as a symbol of rebirth due to the large number of Australian plants, such as kangaroo grass, that thrive through regular burning. Today, Aboriginal Australians are considered the very first bread-making people with the discovery of a grinding stone dated over 30,000 years BURNING COUNTRY, NARRAN LAKES AREA, NEW SOUTH WALES, 2013. old at Cuddie Springs near Brewarrina in PHOTO: OLIVER COSTELLO northern New South Wales. See program overview on page 10 or download the Project 32 App at kaldor.org for full details. 6 7 Program Highlights

SPECIAL EVENT: LUNCHTIME TALKS “ Language gives you a LANGUAGES ANNIVERSARY OF THE DR PAUL IRISH discusses the Aboriginal GARDEN PALACE FIRE people who continued to live around different way of thinking. Commemorating the Garden Palace coastal Sydney in the 1870s and 1880s, It’s a different world. It’s fire of 1882, an evening of special during the construction and use of the REMIND US events will include a language Garden Palace. your world. You’re not presentation by Wiradjuri students Friday 23 September, 1pm from Parkes, central NSW. looking at a world that Thursday 22 September, 4pm JEREMY STEELE discusses his belongs to someone THAT NOTHING research into “re-awakening” the else; you’re looking at ABORIGINAL METHODOLOGIES: Aboriginal Language of Sydney. WAYS OF SEEING, KNOWING Saturday 24 September, 1pm a world that belongs to AND DOING Presented in partnership with UTS DR KEITH VINCENT SMITH discusses you. And it’s who you HAS BEEN Join this inspiring panel of Aboriginal the site’s history and the role and are… Language is what researchers, authors and thinkers life of Sydney icon Bennelong. to consider the use of Aboriginal Sunday 25 September, 1pm you are, it’s what you methodologies, or Aboriginal ways of eat, it’s what you do, it’s LOST seeing, knowing and doing, and their MICHAEL JARRETT (Gumbaynggirr) impact on the cultural landscape. and AARON ELLIS (Gamilaraay) how you live, it’s how The panel draws on the leading discuss their role in barrangal dyara you breathe, it’s how you research at University of Technology (skin and bones) and the revitalisation Sydney, and includes PROFESSOR of Aboriginal languages. show yourself. Without The process of sharing the story of the LARISSA BEHRENDT (Eualeyai/ Monday 26 September, 1pm language, without the Garden Palace with Aboriginal communities Kamilaroi), JASON DE SANTOLO (Garrwa/Barunggam) and ALISON UNCLE CHARLES MADDEN (Gadigal) knowledge of language, and reflecting on the significance of the loss WHITTAKER (Gomeroi), in conversation and UNCLE ALLEN MADDEN (Gadigal) we have nothing.” of cultural objects is essential to the project. with BRENDA L CROFT (Gurindji/ will discuss their lived experience Malngin/Mudpurra/Bilinara). of Sydney as local Elders. UNCLE STAN GRANT Eight language groups—the Sydney Language, Saturday 1 October, 3pm Tuesday 27 September, 1pm SR AM Gamilaraay, Gumbaynggirr, Gunditjmara, Ngarrindjeri, Paakantji, Wiradjuri and Woiwurrung—have collaborated with Jones to Visit the project library create unique soundscapes installed within the located in the Rose footprint, reinstating contemporary Aboriginal JONATHAN JONES, NICAYDEN GREENWOOD AND MICHAEL Pavilion to find related RILEY RECORDING WIRADJURI LANGUAGE AT PARKES voices into the landscape. These communities PUBLIC SCHOOL. PHOTO: PETER GREIG reading material, recall, in language, both the lost objects and including key texts the material that was largely excluded from that have inspired the the ethnological collection—objects relating project. Purchase your to women, children, agriculture, and to broader copy of the project cultural practices that challenge the imperial catalogue from vision of terra nullius. The process of 22 September and developing these soundscapes with community use a tablet to explore allows the work to transform a state of supplementary content. mourning into a celebration of the strength and GEOFF ANDERSON, RACHEL STOREY, EMMA PIKE, LIONEL LOVETT, LYRETTA GILBY AND uniqueness of south-east Aboriginal cultures. JONATHAN JONES RECORDING WIRADJURI LANGUAGE AT PARKES PUBLIC SCHOOL. PHOTO: PETER GREIG

See program overview on page 10 or download the Project 32 App at kaldor.org for full details. 8 9 Download the Project 32 Around the Garden Further Afield App at kaldor.org for full program details. ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN WALK STATE LIBRARY OF ART GALLERY OF NEW SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM TALKS & Join a seasonal walk through the NEW SOUTH WALES WALES Indigenous Cultural Collections Tour Garden commencing from the Garden Palace Exhibition Artist Talk Although the loss of the Australian Garden’s Information Booth, located in the Amaze Gallery Join JONATHAN JONES in Museum’s early ethnological collection at the Garden Shop, and concluding at The State Library of NSW will tell the conversation with DR MICHAEL in the 1882 fire was severe, the barrangal dyara (skin and bones). unique story of the Garden Palace BRAND, Director, Art Gallery of Australian Museum has since built up a EVENTS Daily, 10:30am through their collection display in the New South Wales. collection of over 20,000 objects that Free, no bookings required Amaze Gallery, throughout September Wednesday 21 September, 6pm represent Indigenous Australia. Join to coincide with barrangal dyara Art Gallery of NSW Entrance Court an exclusive behind the scenes tour of - (skin and bones). Free, no bookings required the Australian Museum’s Indigenous Weekdays, 9am—5pm Cultural Collections. SYDNEY’S FORGOTTEN Thursday, 9am—8pm Celebrity Talk Tuesday 20 and Join us On Site at the Marquee for Free Daily Programs ANCESTOR Weekends, 10am—5pm WESLEY ENOCH (Noonuccal Nuugi), Tuesday 27 September, 11am–12pm As part of barrangal dyara (skin and Free, no bookings required Sydney Festival Director, speaks on Friday 23 and bones), view historical images from the significance of the Royal Botanic Thursday 29 September, 2–3pm ARTIST’S INSIGHT Tuesday 27 September Hands On Weavers: STORIES WITH the Garden Palace and Sydney’s Curator-led Tour of the Garden Garden Sydney and the Garden Palace. Ages 12+ Hear Wiradjuri/Kamilaroi artist UNCLE CHARLES MADDEN (Gadigal) Saturday 1 October, 2:30pm and AUNTY JULIE FREEMAN International Exhibition, including Palace Exhibition Wednesday 21 September, 6:30pm (under 15s accompanied by an adult) JONATHAN JONES share insights and UNCLE ALLEN MADDEN (Gadigal) Sunday 2 and Monday 3 October, 11am AUNTY JULIE FREEMAN is a Gorawarl the Ethnological Court, at the Palm Thursday 22, Saturday 24, Art Gallery of NSW Entrance Court Entry fees apply, bookings essential into the development of barrangal dyara discuss their lived experience of Sydney Jerrawongarla woman, a traditional House, Royal Botanic Garden Sydney. Thursday 29 September, 2:30pm Free, no bookings required australianmuseum.net.au (skin and bones) and the ideas that as local Elders. - owner of south Sydney and the South Saturday 17 September— Meet in the Mitchell Vestibule have inspired this ambitious new work. Coast of New South Wales. A senior Monday 3 October, 10am—5pm Free, bookings essential Housing a Collection: the Gallery Australian Museum Heritage Tour Daily, 12:30pm Wednesday 28 September CONVERSATIONS WITH cultural knowledge holder, Aunty Julie Free, no bookings required sl.nsw.gov.au and the Garden Palace Have exclusive access to the DR PETER YANADA MCKENZIE ABORIGINAL KNOWLEDGE relates important creation narratives Remember the Gallery’s presence at original residence of the Australian - (Eora/Anaiwan) relates the history of Presented in partnership with The for the local environment in this special - Aboriginal Languages and Garden the Sydney International Exhibition Museum’s early curators and observe the local Aboriginal community of La School of Life, this series examines the evening series. Palace Special Collections with artworks and ephemera from the the changes in the architecture of LUNCHTIME TALKS Perouse, including the ongoing cultural intersection of Aboriginal and Western Weekends and Labour Day, 5pm LOST GARDEN PALACE See historic items from the State collections. the historic building. Listen to the Daily, 1pm practice of boomerang-making and perspectives around the themes of Talks at the Palm House bring to Library’s collections related to the Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, hidden stories within the walls of the shell work. cultural knowledge, growing up, and - life the short but dramatic history Garden Palace and learn about 10am–4pm Museum and see rare collections Saturday 17 September well-being. of the extravagant 19th-century materials that open a cultural pathway Wednesday, 10am–6:30pm, dating back to the 1800s. WESLEY ENOCH (Noonuccal Nuugi), Thursday 29 September FAMILY & HOLIDAY PROGRAMS Garden Palace. to Aboriginal languages. Saturday, 12–4pm Wednesday 21 and Sydney Festival Director, discusses ROSLYN MAGUIRE explores the Australian Fire Bookings essential Weekends and Labour Day, Tuesday 20, Saturday 24, Free, no bookings required Monday 26 September, Sydney as a site of performance. Garden Palace’s musical history. Featuring OLIVER COSTELLO kaldor.org/events/index 11am–12pm Tuesday 27 September, 3:30pm 10:30am–12pm (Bundjalung) and STEPHEN MUECKE Peek into the history of Gadigal life Free, no bookings required Free, bookings essential Guided Tours Saturday 24 and Sunday 18 September Friday 30 September Sunday 18 September, 3pm by the harbour and the dramatic (space is limited) sl.nsw.gov.au Join the Gallery’s Indigenous Wednesday 28 September, 1:30–3pm LORRAINE CONNELLY-NORTHEY DR CATHERINE DE LORENZO stories of the colonial Garden educators for a tour linking the Gallery Ages 12+ (Waradgerie) discusses her cultural discusses the innovations and cultural Rites of Passage Palace. Participants will grind native - - and barrangal dyara (skin and bones). (under 15s accompanied by an adult) practice. legacies triggered by the 1879 Sydney Featuring TEX SKUTHORPE grass seeds, bake bread using Daily, 26–30 September, 11am Entry fees apply, bookings essential International Exhibition . (Noonghaburra) and DR ARNE native ingredients and learn about 200 YEARS OF DISCOVERY SYDNEY LIVING MUSEUMS Free, no bookings required australianmuseum.net.au Monday 19 September RUBINSTEIN contemporary Aboriginal art. An exhibition at The Calyx reveals Tour: James Barnet’s Sydney Meet at the information desk ANN TOY explores the Garden Palace’s Saturday 1 October Sunday 25 September, 3pm Weekend Family Program for fascinating discoveries from the Royal As NSW Colonial Architect, James - place in Sydney’s political landscape. CAROL COOPER discusses the role 5+ years, children must be Botanic Garden Sydney including a Barnet designed iconic Sydney and significance of shields in the south- The Healthy Self accompanied by parents/carers. showcase of items rescued from the buildings, including the Garden Palace. Tuesday 20 September east and the use of designs and incised Featuring DR CHELSEA BOND Holiday Program for 8–12 years, Garden Palace. Saturday 24 and Spotlight on the Garden Palace DR GRACE KARSKENS delves into the carving. (Munanjahli and South Sea Islander) children to be dropped off at the Daily, 10am–4pm Sunday 25 September, 1pm and 3pm The origins of the Museum of Applied role of Eora fisherwomen in the pre- and SUZY GREEN Botanic Garden’s Learning Centre. Free, no bookings required Fees apply, bookings essential Arts and Sciences are inextricably and early contact years. Sunday 2 October Sunday 2 October, 3pm sydneylivingmuseums.com.au linked to the Garden Palace. The JACQUI NEWLING explores the food - Meet outside the Australian Museum Museum was founded in 1880 and its Wednesday 21 September and flavours of the Garden Palace. - on the corner of College and original collections were drawn from DR PETER CUNEO discusses the native RESPONSES TO THE William Streets the Sydney International Exhibition, grasses of Sydney and their role in Monday 3 October SATURDAY AFTERNOON FORUMS GARDEN PALACE including objects that survived the fire. landscape, identity and ecology. Award-winning author BRUCE Indigenous Alumni: In collaboration with JONATHAN This display brings together JONATHAN PASCOE (Bunurong, Yuin and UNSW Art & Design JONES and Kaldor Public Art Projects, JONES’ work and a selection of objects Thursday 22 September Tasmanian) speaks on Aboriginal In partnership with UNSW Art & Design, a group of talented young composers from the Garden Palace. DR TIM LOW describes the impact and agriculture and the role of native hear from leading Aboriginal artists, from the Sydney Conservatorium Daily, 17 September—3 October, significance of local native bird life on grasses in the Aboriginal economy. curators and arts workers and cele- of Music, , and 10am–5pm the project site. brate their diverse and distinguished architecture and interior design Entry fees apply, no bookings required - practices within the visual arts. students from University of New South Friday 23 September Saturday 17 September, 3–4pm Wales have conceptualised creative ANNIVERSARY OF THE GARDEN PALACE FIRE DR PAUL IRISH discusses the ARTIST DEMONSTRATIONS: responses to barrangal dyara (skin and Aboriginal people who lived around SHELLS, CARVING, WEAVING Aboriginal Design and Spatial bones) and the site once occupied by We commemorate the Garden Palace fire of coastal Sydney in the 1870s and 1880s, Join celebrated Bidjigal artist and Considerations the Garden Palace. during the era of the Garden Palace. Elder ESME TIMBERY and her In partnership with University of Friday 23 September, 3pm 1882 with special events and evening access to daughter MARILYN RUSSELL (Bidjigal) Technology Sydney, listen to Aboriginal Saturday 24 September as they demonstrate shell work, attend designers and thinkers discuss the - barrangal dyara (skin and bones). Programs JEREMY STEELE discusses his a carving demonstration by Dharug and theory and application of Aboriginal include a special performance by Bangarra Dance research into the Aboriginal Language Gundungurra Elder GREG SIMMS or design and spatial considerations. SPECIAL EVENT of Sydney. hear Aboriginal artists from the HANDS Saturday 24 September, 3–4pm South-western Sydney participants in Theatre, the barrangal dyara (skin and bones) ON WEAVERS group from Wagga the Masterclass Program, developed Sunday 25 September Wagga speak about their practice and Aboriginal Methodologies: and presented in collaboration with catalogue launch with David Malouf, Stories DR KEITH VINCENT SMITH discusses demonstrate weaving. Ways of Seeing, Knowing And Doing Campbelltown Arts Centre, reflect the site’s history and the role and life of Esme Timbery and Marilyn Russell: In partnership with University of on their eight-week investigation with Aunty Julie Freeman (Gorawarl Sydney icon Bennelong. Saturday 17 September, 2:30pm and Technology Sydney, join an inspiring into place, history, language, and Sunday 18 September 11am panel of Aboriginal researchers, community with a special focus on Jerrawongarla), a musical performance by the Monday 26 September authors and thinkers to consider the Aboriginal history and cultures. Gondwana Choirs, and a language presentation MICHAEL JARRETT (Gumbaynggirr) Greg Simms: use of Aboriginal methodologies and Saturday 17 September, 11am and AARON ELLIS (Gamilaraay) Saturday 24 September, 2:30pm and their impact on the cultural landscape. by Wiradjuri students from Parkes, central NSW. discuss their role in the project and the Sunday 25 September, 11am Saturday 1 October, 3–4pm revitalisation of Aboriginal languages. Thursday 22 September, 4pm–8pm 10 11 Kaldor Public Art Projects and Our Partners Our Sponsors

Since 1969, Kaldor Public Art Projects Kaldor Public Art Projects has worked PRESENTING PARTNER LEAD PATRONS has created groundbreaking projects with countless partner organisations with international artists in public in every sector, and values the depth spaces, changing the landscape of and strength of these connections. contemporary art in Australia with For barrangal dyara (skin and bones), projects that resonate around the we particularly sought out partners LEAD CORPORATE PARTNER CORPORATE PARTNERS world. Over the years our projects have whose own histories are intrinsically changed the way the Australian public tied with that of the Garden Palace: sees and experiences the art of today. Spot Fire Symposia partners, the State Jonathan Jones’ barrangal dyara (skin Library of NSW, Art Gallery of NSW and and bones) marks the 32nd Kaldor Public Australian Museum, and programming Art Project, and the first by an Australian partners, the Museum of Applied Arts GOVERNMENT PARTNERS Aboriginal artist. and Sciences, Sydney Living Museums, As we work to contribute to Sydney’s University of New South Wales and creative culture, we are particularly University of Technology Sydney. proud to work with the Royal Botanic This incredible installation and its PHILANTHROPIC PARTNERS Garden Sydney as it celebrates its 200th accompanying programs would not Birthday. After two centuries of bringing have been possible without the educational, horticultural, scientific and support of these partners and our cultural experiences to Sydney, the generous corporate, philanthropic and EDUCATION PARTNERS LEAD TERTIARY PARTNER CORPORATE SUPPORTER PERFORMANCE PARTNER Garden continues to be a favourite place government supporters. for visitors and Sydney locals alike.

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ABORIGINAL PROJECT BENEFACTORS Geoff and Roslyn Morgan ASSOCIATES ADVISORY BOARD Geoff Ainsworth AM and Andrew and Amanda Rettig Lucinda Aboud Christine Evans, Chief Johanna Featherstone Penelope Seidler AM Phillip Cornwell and Cecilia Rice SPOT FIRE SYMPOSIA AND PROGRAM PARTNERS MEDIA PARTNER MARKETING PARTNERS Education Officer, Aboriginal Andrew Cameron AM and Skrzynski Family Sky Foundation Mary Henderson Education, Board of Studies Cathy Cameron Peter and Jenny Wohl Ron Kaplan Teaching and Educational Lizanne Knights and James Kirby and Standards (BOSTES) Julian Knights AO SUPPORTERS Claire Wivell Plater Jason Glanville, Chairperson Walter and Liz Lewin Guido and Elizabeth Laverty of the Australian Institute of Mark and Louise Nelson Michelle Belgiorno–Nettis John Leece AM and PUBLICATION PARTNERS PUBLICATION SUPPORTERS Indigenous Governance Roslyn and Tony Oxley Coe Family Anne Leece and Director of the Indigenous Justine and Damian Roche Paul and Roslyn Espie Susan and Stuart Lloyd-Hurwitz

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