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HISTORICAL HERITAGE
As highly experienced project leaders, Artefact has been lead consultant on many major projects. Our planning and management systems ensure that projects are completed in a timely, professional manner, working in partnership with our clients.
Since 2010 Artefact is proud to have worked on a diverse range of large and small-scale infrastructure and development projects.
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Artefact have worked on almost all major rail infrastructure developments in NSW over the past decade.
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At Artefact we recruit staff who are passionate about the past, skilled in their disciplines and professional in their approach. We all understand the need to balance our rich local heritage with plans that shape the State’s future. These attributes contribute to a great team culture internally – and to exceptional advice and service for you. We support each other to make sure that our clients come first, which is why we have an industry-wide reputation for being responsive, innovative and authoritative.
SANDRA WALLACE, MANAGING DIRECTOR
Artefact was established in 2010 by Dr Sandra Wallace, who remains the company’s Managing Director.
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‘Frontier resistance warfare ’
Building on the important historical findings of his first two books, in Uprising Stephen Gapps resurfaces the breadth of frontier resistance warfare between 1838 and 1844, from present-day northern Victoria through to southeast Queensland.
The book represents a critical contribution to truth-telling and revealing the silences in Australian history. Recognising and understanding our shared history is a vital process and at the core of our purpose at Artefact. The event, attended by more than 65 people marked an important moment in the ongoing conversation about Australian history. We are proud to support Stephen and his work in shifting entrenched narratives about the Australian past.
Stephen Gapps is a public historian working to bring Frontier War histories into broader recognition as Australia’s First Wars and Senior Associate and Historian hat Artefact. In 2011, he was awarded the NSW Premier’s History Award for regional and community history. Stephen’s The Sydney Wars: Conflict in the early colony 1788–1817 was the inaugural winner of the Les Carlyon Award for the writing of military history (2020). He is also the author of Gudyarra: The first Wiradyuri war of resistance – The Bathurst War, 1822–1824 (2021), and is an editor of The Australian Wars, the book of the award-winning documentary series, forthcoming. He is also the Senior Associate and Historian at Artefact Heritage and Environment.
Images:
Left: David Marr talking about truth telling in literature
Middle: Elspeth Menzies from NewSouth Publishing talking about publishing Stephen's three books on frontier wars
Right: Dr Stephen Gapps speaking about the inspiration for writing the book
Images:
Left: Dr Sandra Wallace talking about Aboriginal agency in Aboriginal archaeology
Middle: Dr Stephen Gapps signs books for staff members Kristen Tola and Scott Macarthur
Right: 'Indigenous Bites' by Mark Olive of Midden, catering by Doltone House.
Uprising
War in the colony of New South Wales, 1838 - 1844
The first section of this book mainly cover Aboriginal victories in war. The second section deals with the colonial counteroffensive against the uprisings along the colonists' 'frontier'.
Copies are available from NewSouth Publishing
Image: Front cover of Uprising with artwork by Blak Douglas
