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When you partner with Artefact, you’ll receive timely and accurate advice on how to integrate archaeology and heritage considerations into your project plans.
Artefact includes specialists across key fields of archaeology and heritage. More importantly, with 30 staff we can assemble a skilled in-house team targeted to your specific requirements
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.
Our proudest achievement is our team. We value their skills and talents, and we trust that you will too.
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.
What ever your heritage project we are here to assist. Country or city, desktop or fieldwork, we’ve covered most of New South Wales and ACT. Our advice and services are customised to offer the best guidance on how you can proceed, whatever your project type. We consult right across the scale from neighbourhood architectural practices to multinational developers. But don't take our word for it! Check out our testimonials from our clients.
The Princes Highway upgrade from Gerringong to Bomaderry presented an opportunity for Roads and Maritime Services (now Transport for NSW) to interpret local Aboriginal cultural heritage. Transport for NSW chose the Mount Pleasant Rest area at Gerringong as the place to install Aboriginal interpretive signage. Here travellers can stop, refresh and immerse themselves in an ancient cultural landscape. Transport for NSW consulted the local Aboriginal community as per the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Requirements 2010.
Transport for NSW engaged Artefact who had extensive experience in Aboriginal community consultation and heritage interpretation to prepare the Heritage Interpretation Plan and develop and design the roadside interpretive panels. They engaged Artefact to meet with Aboriginal community representatives, who guided our understanding about local beliefs, stories and practices. The Heritage Interpretation Plan brought this rich cultural heritage to life and then embedded it on Country via site-specific interpretive signage.
Transport for NSW then engaged local Aboriginal Artist Jodie Stewart to paint her Aboriginal designs on the legs of the interpretive signs to be install at Mount Pleasant.
The project was a success at engaging local Aboriginal communities and giving travellers an opportunity to learn about the Aboriginal history of the area.
During the developing of the Mount Pleasant Rest area signs Transport for NSW was approached by Red Room Poetry to discuss opportunities for their Aboriginal Language Program with local Illawarra School Children to be interpreted on signs. Transport for NSW and Artefact assisted with the development and design of the Dharawal Language signs and these were installed at the Nungarry Rest Stop South Bound on the Princes Highway by Transport for NSW in 2021.
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