Places, Spaces, Sticks and Stones

A special program was developed in 2009 which brought over 90 students from five Shoalhaven secondary schools to workshops at Bundanon to create an exhibition of mixed media murals, photographs and sculptures entitled, Places, Spaces, Sticks and Stones held at the Shoalhaven City Arts Centre gallery. Over 80% of participants in the project were Indigenous identified. Selected students represented their schools at a residential weekend held at Bundanon’s Riversdale site.

As part of the process of developing this exhibition a group of 43 Indigenous students and Aboriginal Education Officers travelled to Canberra and visited the National Gallery of Australia, the National Museum of Australia and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. On the same day at Parliament House they met Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Jenny Macklin and Local Member of Parliament, Joanna Gash.