Barangaroo Place
Artist: Wanita Lowe & Nioka Lowe-Brennan
We will explore our identity through our design concept. Look at the layers of Cultural landscape – from our Mother Earth to the Skies above, from dry landscape to the ocean and coast, plant life animals and us as people – fresh water, salt water. What makes our way of living and philosophies unique to the western concepts? How we lived to sustain and conserve life and the environment. How our practices gave us responsibilities to ensure the survival of kinship. And understanding we belong to the land not that the land belongs to us. We are one with it and all that exists.
Wanita Lowe & Nioka Lowe-Brennan
Through our Cultural journey, we have been fortunate to meet some incredible people within community who have given us the opportunity to pursue our dream within the Arts. We would greatly love to pay it forward by giving back to the community by passing on knowledge and building relationships that help encourage further development and learning.
Modern Barangaroo is a world-leading interconnected sustainable precinct. The energy used to power its public areas and its on-site wastewater recycling plant is powered by the solar energy generated in Barangaroo. The sun and rainwater are captured and repurposed to power, irrigate and cool the precinct. Barangaroo was Australia’s first certified carbon neutral precinct under the Climate Active initiative.
At Cuthbert’s Wharf, close to here, four fast ships were built and launched in the 1870s to help combat the abominable practice of “Blackbirding”; enticing or even kidnapping Pacific Islanders to work, essentially as slaves, in northern NSW and Queensland. Descendants of these peoples, unable to return to their islands, made Australia their home, but retained their stories and identities.
First Nations Audio Narrative: With thanks to our Indigenous Cultural Advisors, Aunty Jo Selfe and Uncle Graham Toomey, and special contributors who have generously shared important stories of place. Listen to the First Nations Audio Narrative here.
Charity Auction
Love Whale Tales? Want to keep one?
You can! After the Waterfront Whale Tales trail concludes, all 30 sculptures will be offered for purchase at a dedicated art auction at Sydney Maritime Museum, Terrace Room.
The net proceeds from the auction will go to The Kids’ Cancer Project.
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