Connection to Country
Uncle Charles Davison + Nicole Monks
Location: Royal North Shore Hospital
Country
Collaborators: Uncle Charles Davison
Nicole Monks
Partnership: AG Public Art
Client: NSW Health
Completion: 2020
BARANI (yesterday_ NUNG (now) BARRABUGU (tomorrow)
As part of the St. Leonards Health organisation Relocation, Nicole Monks was commissioned to Royal North Shore Hospital. There are three artworks installed into the space.
The soffit underside at the entrance features a 40m x 1.1m high lettering with a mirror finish with LED concealed halo lighting to the perimeter of all lettering.
The shade structure is a 3m high steel frame with six steel shade panels embellished with a native floral design cut using a water-jet and painted with a black gloss finish. Underneath the shade structure is sandstone bench seating with a shaped Corian top depicting the foreshore line of Middle Harbour, engraved lettering and local stories integrated.
The message stick is constructed of a 3m high corten steel frame and panel assembly with a laser-cut pattern based on traditional Aboriginal message sticks LED backlit opal lens. It sits in the middle of a sandstone circle with engraved Aboriginal lettering indicating the cardinal points.
