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Suite 56, 26-32 Pirrama Road, Jones Bay Wharf
PYRMONT NSW 2009
Newcastle Office
Unit 71, 8 Spit Island Close
MAYFIELD WEST NSW 2304
Mon to Fri | 9am - 5pm
When you partner with Artefact, you’ll receive timely and accurate advice on how to integrate archaeology, heritage and environmental considerations into your project plans.
Artefact includes specialists across key fields of archaeology, heritage, environment, interpretation, architecture and history. More importantly, with 50 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.
I am a Principal at Artefact and my main role is to act as Excavation Director on historical sites as well as offering historical research, general heritage management and mentoring of Artefact staff.
But perhaps one of my greatest passions is Industrial Heritage. My work in the field of Industrial Archaeology and Heritage is known throughout Australia and overseas. In Australia I established the ICOMOS-TICCIH National Scientific Committee on Industrial Heritage and in Japan I was appointed as an advisor to the Committee on the World Heritage Nomination Industrial Heritage in Kyushu and Yamaguchi.
I also currently hold the position of President - Royal Australian Historical Society and am a serving Board Member of the International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage.
I have always been interested in the past; from trips to the goldfields, trips to timber mills and steam train rides with my father as well as his version of family history. I learned by field skills from some wonderfully generous archaeologists and found inspiration from the classic archaeological writing. My interest lies somewhere in the junction of history, geography and archaeology. I have seen the firestick fires of a Northern Australia summer, the mutton birds on the water in Bass Strait, the silent wreck of the Loch Ard and the apocalyptic remains of Gunkanjima and I have a bit more to learn about the past.
I've been fortunate to have worked on projects on a diverse range of industrial sites from boat building, dockyard cranes, coal loaders, coke works, grain silos, warehouses, airfields, railways (including driving a steam engine), coal mining, copper mining, gold mining, brickworks and Broken Hill.
My artefact is an 1882 plan of the settlement of Mitchel between Bathurst and Lithgow. This was a small gold mining settlement and poorly documented. This map shows the surprising extent of the settlement in the landscape including a Chinese market garden and a hut occupied by a Chinese man. The map is of value as it is a serendipitous find.
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