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25.01.2022 After a holiday period dominated by fire Cultural Capital is back at work for 2020, continuing our work of bringing meaning to place. Creative Director Mark McClelland found that the experience of the bushfires around his home base in the NSW southern tablelands town of Braidwood brought about some reflection. You can find the full article here: https://www.linkedin.com//personal-place-based-experience/

23.01.2022 We can't wait to see the new Mike Hewson playground open at Simpson Park, part of the series 18 commissioned works we have curated for the WestConnex Public Art Program 'Canal to Creek'. https://www.facebook.com/watch/

23.01.2022 Come see the first of the Canal to Creek artworks as part of the new M5 Public Art Program from Westconnex. 'Eight Rings' is a new sculptural installation from Dan Templeman, installed this week at Linear Park, Beverly Hills. The work, about interconnection and perception, is made from aluminium cut into eight pieces from two identical cylindrical structures. The rings rest on the ground, interconnected into a unified structure as a representation of community, connection and play for passersby. Thank you to Westconnex and Dan Templeman for their contributions to this project.

22.01.2022 Drenka Andjelic, Cultural Capital Project Director, shared her story of success in the property industry to the Property Council of NSW in the lead up to International Women's Day, this Sunday 8th March. Cultural Capital is proud to have strong female voices like Drenka's leading our business. We would not be able to achieve the work that we do without female leaders driving our team. Congratulations Drenka. Happy International Women's Day.

20.01.2022 We are saddened to hear of the passing of the great Jack Mundey this week at the age of 90. Jack Mundey was a pioneering trade unionist, environmentalist and activist who led the Green Bans Movement across Australia in the late 60s and 70s. His activism saved numerous buildings around the Sydney CBD, The Rocks, Glebe, Woolloomoloo, Darlinghurst, the Botanical Gardens and the Aboriginal community housing in Redfern. We will forever be indebted to Jack Mundey's work conserving the built heritage of Australia and the cultural fabric of our city. Image: Vhils, 'Jack Mundey Mural', The Rocks

20.01.2022 See the making of Yioryios Papayioryiou's 'Points of Interception (CTC20)' now resting at St Peters Interchange, as part of the WestConnex Public Art Program 'Canal to Creek', courtesy of UAP.

20.01.2022 We are thrilled to see Emily Crockford (Studio A) begin work on her mural and lighting installation 'Oysters Eating Rainbows' at the Karingal Underpass in Kingsgrove. This work will be making a splash entrance in the underpass tunnel, creating an immersive natural wonderland. The mural is inspired by the ecological abundance and diversity of the area and its waterways: the birds, fish, yabbies and oysters. It is also a reminder of the fragility of these habitats and the importance of preserving our skies, branches and riverbeds for future generations to come. Look out for more to come as Westconnex Public Art Program - Canal to Creek continues to unfold.

20.01.2022 Find out the story behind Dan Templeman's art work 'Eight Rings' in this interview with the artist, part of the WestConnex Public Art Program 'Canal to Creek'. You can see 'Eight Rings' now at Linear Park near King Georges Road, Beverly Hills. 1. How did you develop the idea of the work? The work is part of an ongoing exploration of the formal possibilities of taking simple extruded shapes, like cylinders and prisms, and truncating them to create complex forms that alter one’...s perception of the form and the space they operate in. The idea of creating two sets of rings was in response to the idea of inbound and outbound movement. 2. How did the local area inspire the work? The placement, scale and colour are all in response to the dynamics of the site, the orientation is in response to the approaches to and from the work as a set of possible paths. The desire to make an intimate work that residents can have an immediate and physical relationship to was also very important. 3. How do you imagine people might respond to the work when they encounter it for the first time? I have orientated the work in such a way that as you enter the park you see the rings as two perfect circles, this perception is then deepened as you move along the arc of the path and see the expanded form and the relationships it sets out. I hope the work creates intrigue and that it sets the viewer in motion, by putting them in a situation where they establish pathways based on their perception of the form the work is enlivened. 4. Did you come across any challenges or surprises along the way while making? Whenever you make something of scale - something that involves the body, it is hard to know if, or how, it will work. Not until its built and you truly experience the work can you say if it’s working. This is the most exciting part; that moment when you feel like the form is elusive and warrants exploration, that’s when I feel like I have achieved something and that there is the possibility that others may too have a similar experience. 5. What does the work mean to you? My hope is that all my work brings people in to the ‘now’, in other words, I hope the minimal and site-specific nature of the work is free of representation and preconceptions and holds each view through their unique engagement. In this way the transfer between object and subject is immediate and cyclical. I think bringing the audience in to this direct form of engagement is meaningful as the work is a vehicle for a heightened awareness of oneself in this place at this time. I hope the work opens up a space where perception allows the viewer to dwell.

19.01.2022 TODAY 12pm-1pm, join this free webinar to hear Cultural Capital Creative Director Mark McClelland speak on ecocentrism with fellow UNSW alumni and professors. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/unswfromhome-what-is-ecocen

19.01.2022 Stephen King's ‘Carbon Store’ is the latest sculpture installed as part of the WestConnex Public Art Program Canal to Creek. Located next to the WestConnex Mo...torway Control Centre in St Peters, this sculpture reaches 14.5 metres in height and can’t be missed. Find out more here https://bit.ly/WCXpa Cultural Capital

18.01.2022 Cultural Capital is working hard to bring the 'Canal to Creek’ Public Art Program to life. See the construction and installation of some of its artworks from Dan Templeman, Hannah Hoyne and Mike Hewson and read about the whole public art project launching this year. https://lnkd.in/ev2Vd7a

17.01.2022 Hear from Creative Director Mark McClelland in his latest blog post 'Close to home’. Inspired by some binge watching of Mad Men, Mark shares his insights into the future of localism and place-based communities. http://culturalcapital.city/2020/04/close-to-home/

16.01.2022 Emily Crockford's artwork OYSTERS EATING RAINBOWS is now complete! In a couple of weeks Emily and her team turned a 45 metre concrete pedestrian tunnel below th...e M5 into a colourful, natural wonderland! ‘I love to imagine the creatures under the water and the possums sitting on the trees looking at the house. I love foxies in the tree and owls having a happy life. Birds singing in moo moo trees. I wish for my tunnel audience to swim with my river creatures.’ - Emily Crockford These photographs were captured by Document Photography close to completion of the project. We hope that you can enjoy the artwork in person and share some of your photographs with us! The artwork for Kingsgrove's Karingal underpass has been commissioned by WestConnex for their Public Art Program Canal to Creek, curated in partnership with Cultural Capital.

12.01.2022 The Cultural Capital team had a great day on site seeing the installation of artworks from our latest project 'Canal to Creek' as part of the WestConnex Public Art Program. We are delighted to see Greg Johns’ ‘Near the Centre (There is Music) and The Observers’, Gill Gatfield’s ‘Asterix', Andrew Rogers’ 'To be - Ikigai' and Mike Hewson’s heritage fences playground coming to life in St Peters. We can’t wait until the whole community can enjoy them.

11.01.2022 Mike Hewson has used recycled bricks taken from heritage fences of homes in the St Peter’s neighbourhood to create an interactive children’s playscape. Find out more about the development of the work coming soon to Simpson Park as part of the WestConnex Public Art Program ‘Canal to Creek’.

11.01.2022 We love this initiative from our partners Mothership Studios in Rotterdam. A public spectacle called 'Franchise Freedom’ commemorated the 75th Annual Freedom Day of the Netherlands from Nazi Occupation. The performance lit up the Rotterdam sky with a suite of drones that illuminated to form a flock of birds. The birds transformed into a giant beating red heart to pay tribute to the healthcare workers fighting Covid-19. Read more about this inspiring and hopeful public art work here: https://www.dezeen.com//studio-drift-franchise-freedom-li/

07.01.2022 Indigenous Australian artists are celebrated internationally, yet in a 99 year history the Archibald has never celebrated an Indigenous winner of its art prize. Until now, with Vincent Namatjira’s powerful portrait of Adam Goodes. We congratulate Vincent and hope he is the first of many Indigenous artists to win the prize. We also congratulate Emily Crockford (studio A) who is a selected finalist in this years Archibald. Emily is one of the artists in 'Canal to Creek', the WestConnex Public Art Program. Photo: 'Stand Strong for Who You Are' (2020), Detail view. Mim Stirling/AGNSW

07.01.2022 Hear Dan Templeman discuss the making of his latest work 'Eight Rings' commissioned for Canal to Creek: A Cultural Landscape as part of the new WestConnex Public Art program, now at Linear Park.

06.01.2022 Cultural Capital is delighted to be selected as the Public Art Advisor for the Sydney Football Stadium Redevelopment. Working with the NSW Government, the team is looking forward to the opportunity this project creates to foster creativity within Sydney’s civic life and leave a powerful cultural legacy. Cultural Capital knows that culture is different things to different people. For some it means opera, ballet and visits to art galleries: ‘Big-C’ culture. For others, it is fo...und in the rituals of daily life celebrations, family gatherings, weekend sport; those things that bring us a sense of belonging with others: ‘little-c’ culture. Our lives are enriched by both. Even more so, when they can be brought together. The Sydney Football Stadium Redevelopment creates a rare opportunity to bring both Big-C and little-c culture together in a meaningful way. So that the sense of cultural belonging we experience at a big game is given deeper meaning through our interaction with art. The world’s great cities all capitalise on art’s ability to excite our human responses; bringing us to awe, joy, wonder, laughter, recognition, surprise and delight. It is from this viewpoint that we are excited to explore the opportunities the new Sydney Football Stadium will create for the city.

05.01.2022 The use of the street as canvas to inscribe BLACK LIVES MATTER in large yellow font has taken visual ownership of the area around the White House and The Washington Monument. Taking to the streets has long been a way of challenging the authority that typically exercises its power from behind closed doors. It is here in the streets that democracy can be physically enacted.... It is in these shared and public spaces between buildings that change can occur; where people can find expression. At Cultural Capital we are deeply interested in people, their place, their meanings and expression. Art will always find a way to aid that expression. Photo: Black Lives Matter Mural, Washington DC 2020 (Reuters)

05.01.2022 A thoughtful and poetic artwork from Hanna Hoyne bridging past and present Sydney communities has landed at Linear Park. ‘Soul Mine’ is a two-piece sculpture of a moon-shaped crescent lying on its back next to a gramophone horn. Each inscribed with text, the works symbolise a unified sense of belonging and celestial connection to our surroundings. Shaped to wrap around the body, passers-by can sit, lie and wonder within the artwork, inviting contemplation, thoughtfulness and renewed perspectives. Come and ponder this new commission as part of the WestConnex Public Art Program ‘Canal to Creek’.

05.01.2022 What is Ecocentrism and can it save us? Can the answers to our struggle with #climatechange, political discord, and the worldwide pandemic be found by reconfigu...ring the way we connect and relate to our environment? Tune in on Tuesday, 27 October at 12pm for an online discussion on whether Ecocentrism can assist in society’s search for harmonic and sustainable solutions to some of the most pressing current global issues. Register: unsw.to/UNSWFromHome

05.01.2022 It’s been 250 years since Captain Cook landed in Australia. ‘Just Not Australian’ is a nationally touring exhibition by Museums & Galleries of NSW that questions what it means to be Australian today. Featuring the work of twenty politically charged Australian artists from a diverse range of backgrounds, the exhibition brings a timely interrogation of our national identity and colonial history. Congratulations to Karla Dickens, commissioned by Transport for NSW for #Wynscreen,... who is a featured artist in this exhibition. You can find out more about the exhibition here: https://mgnsw.org.au//exh/now-showing/just-not-australian/

04.01.2022 This International Women's Day, Cultural Capital would like to celebrate the achievements of the inspiring female artists we have worked with this year. Here at Cultural Capital we have worked with almost 50% female artists in the last 12 months. Their creativity and hard work is integral to helping us achieve our vision of bringing meaning to place. Happy International Womens Day to Emily Crockford, Christina Huynh, Nicole Monks, Hanna Hoyne, Gill Gatfield, Deborah Halpern, Robyn Backen, Marilyn Russel and Aunty Esme Timbery. Photo: Guerrilla Girls, Tate Modern, (1989)

02.01.2022 Next Tuesday hear from Cultural Capital Creative Director Mark McClelland speaking with fellow UNSW alumni Craig Walsh about 'ecocentrism' in this free webinar showcasing interdisciplinary thinking from experts in art, design and architecture. https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/unswfromhome-what-is-ecocen

02.01.2022 Artist Callout! The Metro Tunnel Creative Program is launching an exciting cultural placemaking opportunity for any artists based in Victoria. This is a great initiative bringing cultural value to the development of the Metro Tunnel and a significant opportunity for artists. Find out more here: https://metrotunnel.vic.gov.au//creative-progr/artist-pool

02.01.2022 Congratulations to our colleagues and project partners Cox Architecture and Sam Crawford Architects for their nominations in the 2020 NSW Architecture Awards. They are well deserved nominations in an impressive lineup of projects. It's a privilege to work alongside these talented industry leaders. https://wp.architecture.com.au/nsw/nsw-architecture-awards/