Its iconic sails have been a landmark of Sydney harbour for half a century, and to celebrate the Sydney Opera House is hosting an array of festivities this month. There's also a lesser known rich Aboriginal history that marks the site where the landmark now stands, and one artist is trying to…
Its iconic sails have been a landmark of Sydney harbour for half a century, and to celebrate the Sydney Opera House is hosting an array of festivities this month. There's also a lesser known rich Aboriginal history that marks the site where the landmark now stands, and one artist is trying to reclaim that knowledge through her work.A Sydney icon celebrates half a century this month.
Angela attended the opening ceremony of the Opera House with her mother 50 years ago. Standing in front of two hundred timber Kinyingarra Guwinyanba poles covered in oyster shells, Angela told SBS she welcomes the historical and cultural Aboriginal references commemorated in this work. Sarah was also moved by this cultural and historical reference displayed across one of Sydney's most famous landmarks.
"You know when I came up with the design and kind of realised the scale required to sit gently and respectfully with the Opera House, because it's such an enormous beautiful building - cultural site for everyone these days. Once we had done those drawings to scale and done some site measures I knew we would need a lot of shells. And I originally thought we would need about 200,000. But once we had done the maths I was quite relieved to find it was only about 85,000.
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