Made for the Er pavilion at the Fremantle Biennale, a temporary space erected next to the J Shed, in consultation with Brendan Moore, who gifted the Noongar word Ngarngk = mother/sun, to the project. Made with the assistance of architect and educator Katherine Ashe and students at Notre Dame university, and the greater Walyalup community.
The work reads Ngarngk in stainless mesh overlaid onto the net, which itself is in colour-coded binary rope circles. When decoded, this reads:
rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable & sustainable future for all | IPCC 2023 *
Er Pavilion
Design team:
Brendan Moore, Melissa Cameron, Syrinx Environmental, vittinoAshe,
Structural Engineers: Forth Consulting
Industrial Engineers: Plan B Engineering
Builder: ICS Australia
Pavilion Sponsors: Alti Lighting, Archae-aus, City of Fremantle, F-Cubed, ICS Australia, Seahorse/Linda Davies, Sefar, Syrinx Environmental
Ongoing volunteer support: Notre Dame School of Architecture – Fremantle
(* Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)
Commissioned by Fremantle Biennale as a part of Signals, 2023
Final image credit: Rob Frith, Acorn Photography
