Tag: Art

Unlock Camden 2023, a festival celebrating our past
1920s · 1930s · 1973 New Cities Campbelltown Camden Appin Structure Plan · 20th century · Agriculture history · Attachment to place · Belonging · Camden Council · Camden Council Heritage Advisory Committee · Camden Mayor · Camden Museum · Camden Produce Market · Camden Story · Camden Town Centre · Camden Town Farm · Colonialism · Commemoration · Country town · Cowpastures · Cultural and Heritage Tourism · Cultural Heritage · Entertainment · Festivals · Food · Heritage · History · Interwar · Living History · Local History · Local Studies · Macarthur · Memorialisation · Place making · Ruralism · Sense of place · Social History · Storytelling · Symbolism · Tourism · Unlock Camden · Urban history

Unlock Camden 2023, a festival celebrating our past

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Unlock Camden is a history festival that celebrates the Camden story through walks, art, images, stories, and a host of other activities. Events are centred in historic the John Street precinct around the Alan Baker Art Gallery Macaria.

‘The Tree of Life’, public art at Camden Council Administration Offices
Aesthetics · Art · Artists · Built heritag · Camden Council · Camden White Gum · Community identity · Cowpastures · Cultural Heritage · Cumberland Plain Woodland · Ecology · Environment · Heritage · Landscape · Landscape aesthetics · Local History · Memorials · Nepean River · Oran Park · Public art · Sense of place · Storytelling · Uncategorized

‘The Tree of Life’, public art at Camden Council Administration Offices

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The art installation The Tree of Life by sculptors Gillies & Marc celebrates the endangered Camden White Gum. The sculpture is located adjacent to the entry of the Camden Council administration building at Oran Park. The work was commissioned by the council in 2016 for the opening of the new office building.

Botanic gardens herbarium at Mount Annan wins top architecture award
20th century · Architecture · Art · Attachment to place · Australian Botanic Gardens Mount Annan · Belonging · Built heritag · Camden Story · Colonialism · Cultural Heritage · Design · Garden history · Gardening · Herbarium of NSW ABG · Heritage · History · Landscape · Lifestyle · Living History · Local History · Local Studies · Mount Annan · Place making · Placemaking · Plant Nursery · Plants · Public art · Sculpture · Sense of place · Storytelling · Uncategorized · Urban growth · Urban history

Botanic gardens herbarium at Mount Annan wins top architecture award

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The National Herbarium of NSW at the Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan has been awarded the AILA 2023 NSW AILA Awards in the Health and Education Category.

Public art at Campbelltown brightens up the Queen Street precinct
1968 Sydney Region Outline Plan · 1973 New Cities Campbelltown Camden Appin Structure Plan · Aesthetics · Art · Artists · Attachment to place · Camden · Campbelltown · Campbelltown Art Centre · Campbelltown Council · Community identity · Community work · Craft · Crafts · Design · Dharawal · Economy · Education · Entertainment · History · Indigenous Heritage · Living History · Local History · Local Studies · localism · Macarthur region · Memory · Monuments · Murals · Pioneers · Place making · Placemaking · Public art · Regionalism · rural-urban fringe · Sculpture · Sense of place · Stereotypes · Storytelling · Streetscapes · Sydney's rural-urban fringe · Town planning · Urban development · Urban history · Urban Planning · Urbanism · Western Sydney University

Public art at Campbelltown brightens up the Queen Street precinct

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Public art is being used in the Campbelltown town centre to reinvigorate and revitalise the Queen Street precinct that has been subject to urban blight.

‘Baker, The Artist, The Influencer’, the exhibition
Aesthetics · Art · Attachment to place · Belonging · Camden · Camden Art Group · Camden Story · Community identity · Community organisations · Community work · Cultural Heritage · Heritage · Hope and loss · Living History · Local History · Local Studies · localism · Place making · Public art · Sense of place · Storytelling · Volunteering · Volunteerism

‘Baker, The Artist, The Influencer’, the exhibition

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The Alan Baker Art Gallery Macaria in John Street Camden has a new exhibition 'Baker, The Artist, The Influencer' running until September 2023.

Life Blood, public art at the Australia Botanic Gardens
Art · Artists · Australian Botanic Gardens Mount Annan · Belonging · Community identity · Cowpastures · Crafts · Cultural Heritage · Cultural icon · Cumberland Plain · Cumberland Plain Woodland · Dharawal · Heritage · History · Indigenous Heritage · Living History · Local History · Local Studies · Memorial · Memory · Place making · Public art · Sense of place · Storytelling · Trees · Uncategorized · Wayfinding

Life Blood, public art at the Australia Botanic Gardens

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On the forecourt of the Herbarium at the Australian Botanic Garden is an artwork celebrating the heritage of Indigenous culture called Life Blood.

Narellan Community Mosaic Project: art in the park
Aesthetics · Art · Artists · Belonging · Colonialism · Community identity · Community work · Crafts · Cultural Heritage · Design · Education · Elyard Reserve, Narellan · Heritage · History · Living History · Local History · Local Studies · Memorialisation · Memorials · Narellan · Parks · Place making · Public art · Sense of place · Settler colonialism · Settler Society · Storytelling · Tourism · Urban Planning · Urbanism

Narellan Community Mosaic Project: art in the park

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The Narellan Community Mosaic Project was commissioned in 2005 by Camden Council with funding from the NSW Department of Planning. This artwork is one of number in Elyard Reserve in Narellan.

Goanna on the loose, public art
Art · Attachment to place · Belonging · Craft · Design · Monuments · Narellan · Place making · Public art · Sense of place · Storytelling · Uncategorized

Goanna on the loose, public art

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In Elyard Reserve Narellan NSW there is representation of a goanna climbing a pole. A local public artwork.

Mosaic bench: public artwork at Narellan
Art · Artists · Attachment to place · Camden High School · Community identity · Cultural Heritage · Dharawal · Education · Elyard Reserve, Narellan · Heritage · Monuments · Narellan · Place making · Public art · Storytelling

Mosaic bench: public artwork at Narellan

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In a corner of Elyard Reserve at Narellan is a mosaic tiled bench. This colourful artwork was commissioned in 2009 and is hidden in plain sight.

The Cowpastures Bicentennial, Governor Hunter and the Appin Massacre: the memory of the Cowpastures
Appin · Art · Attachment to place · Belonging · British colonialism · Campbelltown Art Centre · Collective Memory · Colonial frontier · Colonialism · Commemoration · Community identity · Cowpastures · Cowpastures Bicentennial · Cultural Heritage · Dharawal · Governor Macquarie · Heritage · History · Landscape · Landscape aesthetics · Local History · Local Studies · Memorial · Memorialisation · Memorials · Memory · Monuments · Place making · Placemaking · Public art · Sculpture · Sense of place · Settler colonialism · Settler Society · Stereotypes · Storytelling · Uncategorized

The Cowpastures Bicentennial, Governor Hunter and the Appin Massacre: the memory of the Cowpastures

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I often wondered why the cultural material representative of the Cowpastures appeared to have been 'forgotten' by our community. The list of cultural items is quite an extensive include: roads and bridges, parks and reserves; historic sites, books, paintings, articles; conferences, seminars, and workshops; monuments, memorials and murals; community commemorations, celebrations and anniversaries.