The Genestreams Sculptures team aspires to connect Australian ecosystems along the song lines of the first Australians utilising public art combined with online learning platforms. The project promotes indigenous art, knowledge, science and conservation through an awareness of local threatened species and their shared ancestry over hundreds of millions of years. Concept design by Ben Beeton.
Checklist of requirements from participating communities
- The Genestreams Sculptures team requires the participating community to nominate a local representative to act as the project manager. The community’s project manager will be responsible for supplying the following critical information to our team.
- Provide our team with a list of the 15 species in your region that you wish to have represented in the sculpture plus humans. We require the common name, the scientific name and where possible the indigenous name for each species. Look below for guidance on the format of the species list that we require from the community project manager. We recommend selecting threatened species.
- Provide our team with quality non copyright photos of each species that may be reproduced on the sculpture as well as being the foundation for drawings.
- The reproductions of the art on display inside the sculpture must be created by one or more local indigenous artists. The community project manager will be responsible for overseeing the artist selection process. Artists will be required to create an artwork on canvas or paper (not board) for each of the selected 15 species at the specific dimensions of 28cm by 298cm. The artist keeps their art, for the sculpture we require reproductions of the artwork. The regional project managers role will be to post the artworks to a nominated professional scanning businesses for high resolution scanning.
