North Gardens Sculpture Park Landscape Master Plan, Ballarat by Mandy Nicholson (Tharangalk Art), Glenn Romanis, Isobel Paton (Basalt: Art, Landscape, Sculpture) and David S. Jones (Deakin University)

Mandy Nicholson (Tharangalk Art), Glenn Romanis, Isobel Paton (Basalt: Art, Landscape, Sculpture) and David S. Jones (Deakin University)

Aboriginal Nation

Wadawurrung

Location

Ballarat, Victoria

Client

City of Ballarat

Jury comment

Deep listening has enabled this project’s landscape team to produce a strong and genuine consultation process with Traditional Custodians. The landscape masterplan for this park in Ballarat, Victoria is remarkable for its significant and in-depth analysis of the cultural values and knowledge of the landscape on the edge of Lake Wendouree. The masterplan reframes the ambitions and aspirations of a number of Western practices, in particular “sustainability,” replacing them with Wadawurrung concepts of nurturing, healing, learning, sharing and cultural relationshipbuilding. The project demonstrates how strategies for landscape change can be generated by and with Traditional Custodians, how they can be grounded in a deep understanding of Country and how they can create ripples of effect beyond the immediate scope of the project.

Entrants Mandy Nicholson (Tharangalk Art), Glenn Romanis, Isobel Paton (Basalt: Art, Landscape, Sculpture) and David S. Jones (Deakin University) Photography David Jones