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When you partner with Artefact, you’ll receive timely and accurate advice on how to integrate archaeology, heritage and environmental considerations into your project plans.
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As highly experienced project leaders, Artefact has been lead consultant on many major projects. Our planning and management systems ensure that projects are completed in a timely, professional manner, working in partnership with our clients.
Since 2010 Artefact is proud to have worked on a diverse range of large and small-scale infrastructure and development projects.
During this time we have built-up extensive experience in a variety of sectors including rail, roads, power and renewables, health, greenfields development and urban renewal.
Some of the more well-known projects we've been involved with include: Central Station Metro; Parramatta Light Rail; Sydney Metro City & Southwest; Wickham Transport Interchange; Northern Beaches Hospital; St Vincent’s Private Hospital; Concord Forensic Mental Health Unit; Sydney Harbour Bridge; The Northern Road Stages 1 & 2; Berry to Bomaderry Upgrade (Princes Highway); West Wyalong Solar Farm; and Wind Farm and Transmission Line projects in the Pilbara and Western NSW.
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Artefact was established in 2010 by Dr Sandra Wallace, who remains the company’s Managing Director.
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Our approach was based on the need to provide a range of types of interpretive media to engage the wide range of visitors who would use the site and the station.
The interpretive approach balanced the deep-time Aboriginal narratives of land and sea Country, together with the significant early maritime history of the site.
Working with key stakeholders, Artefact developed narratives related to fishing technologies around Sydney Harbour and insights into Barangaroo, the woman, that could be explored at the site.
The discovery of the remains of a rare pre-1830s wooden boat, now called the ‘Barangaroo Boat’, provided an exciting opportunity to showcase early maritime history, together with markers in the ground plane to evoke the changing shoreline as wharves and light industry developed there in the 1800s.
A key feature of the heritage interpretation at Barangaroo Station is a 55 metre long, curved interpretive seating structure designed around the shape of a bara hook (fishing hook made from shell). The seating is made from white concrete seeded with oyster shells collected from the harbour, celebrating the traditional use of the area as a fishing ground, and is inscribed with an Acknowledgement of Country. Interpretive panels near the seating provides contextual information about fishing practices and about Barangaroo herself.
Native plantings in the area provide a sense of the earlier foreshore environment.
The ‘Barangaroo Boat’ inlay is a major place marker. Made of iron, the 8 metre by 3 metre 2D representation of the boat as it was found by archaeologists in 2018 is a feature of the Metro plaza. The interpretation of the boat lies where it last stood nearly 200 years ago.
Inlays also show earlier shorelines and seawalls also cross the plaza.
All these interpretive elements provide valuable insights into the multilayered narratives of this significant waterfront site.
“The interpretation of the historical Barangaroo
precinct is a thoughtful and respectful treatment of a historically significant area… The interpretation of the boat and other heritage elements from this precinct creates a
visual narrative of Sydney’s past and provides an educational opportunity for visitors.”
Tilt Industrial Design (producers of the boat inlay)
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