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To view the breadth of our services, please search our projects via the map below. You can search by type of project or location (LGA).
Location marks on the map are approximate. Projects involving Aboriginal archaeology and Aboriginal cultural heritage are not included in this map for cultural sensitivity reasons, but we have listed some of the Local Aboriginal Land Councils we have worked in.
Our interactive map allows you to search the type of project or locations where Artefact have worked.
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.
Since 2010 Artefact is proud to have worked on a diverse range of large and small-scale infrastructure and development projects.
During this time we have built-up extensive experience in a variety of sectors including rail, roads, power and renewables, health, greenfields development and urban renewal.
Some of the more well-known projects we've been involved with include: Central Station Metro; Parramatta Light Rail; Sydney Metro City & Southwest; Wickham Transport Interchange; Northern Beaches Hospital; St Vincent’s Private Hospital; Concord Forensic Mental Health Unit; Sydney Harbour Bridge; The Northern Road Stages 1 & 2; Berry to Bomaderry Upgrade (Princes Highway); West Wyalong Solar Farm; and Wind Farm and Transmission Line projects in the Pilbara and Western NSW.
With almost 50 staff, and offices in Sydney and Newcastle, we can assemble a skilled in-house team targeted to your specific requirements.
For a personal response to your heritage and environment needs, please ask how we can tailor an integrated solution to suit your plans, your timeline and your budget.
Artefact have worked on almost all major rail infrastructure developments in NSW over the past decade.
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.
Way ahead of its time
Some wonderful sites for research into the history of Newcastle and the Hunter region are the Living Histories and Hunter Living Histories sites. Living Histories is the digital home of the University of Newcastle's Special Collections.
The content on this site, such as the evocative collection of postcards in the Nelly Bligh Collection (above), is provided at a high resolution and is downloadable. The content is free to be used for research or study purposes. The University’s Special Collections, incorporates the University Archives, and Rare Books and Special Collections. It really is, as the homepage says, ‘the home of the historical and cultural memory of the University and its regional context’.
The Hunter Living Histories initiative follows a Community-University collaborative model. Way ahead of its time, Hunter Living Histories has been going for over 20 years.
"...the home of the historical and cultural memory of the University and its regional context’.
Dreaming is a one-page version of the Virtual Sourcebook for Aboriginal Studies in the Hunter Region site. This important project attempts to list any and all historical sources related to the Hunter Region from 1791 to the present.
It was originally created to assist the Awaba project, a collaborative venture by the University of Newcastle’ s School of Liberal Arts and the Wollotuka School of Aboriginal Studies.
"...with the help of local communities it continues to identify materials relating to Aboriginal people throughout Newcastle and the wider Hunter Region.
The original brief was to digitise the works of Reverend Lancelot Threlkeld, a missionary to Aboriginal people who arrived in Newcastle in 1825. Threlkeld began recording the elements of the local Aboriginal language with a number of people, especially a man known as M’Gill or Biraban.
The first systematic study of an Aboriginal language was undertaken by Threlkeld. Now with the help of local communities, the Virtual Sourcebook continues to identify materials from the collections and elsewhere relating to Aboriginal people throughout Newcastle and the wider Hunter Region.
Image: Aborigines Night Fishing By Torches ca. 1817 Painting by Joseph Lycett. Courtesy of National Library of Australia.
Eliza Nowlan’s original hand-written diary and correspondence
Digitising the collections is one thing. Writing about their history, acquisition, their provenance, locating the site where diaries were written is quite another.
Along with digitised letters, diaries, maps, etc. are a raft of blog posts that provide valuable information about the context of collection items. For example, the richly detailed diary and letters of Eliza Nowlan is a very rare document - through the eyes of a woman - of the early period of farming at Patterson’s Plains from 1822 to 1824.
"She gives a valuable record of noting what plants and produce are successful and what are not."
Eliza writes to her relatives back home in Ireland detailing their efforts to establish their new farm. She provides a valuable record of which plants and produce are successful and those that are not suitable to the region. The diary and letters were acquired from the family in 2003 and digitised in 2022.
Image: First leaf of Eliza Nowlan’s Letter or Diary 16th December 1822.
We can help with local history and heritage
Jenny Winnett and Kristen Tola are experts in cultural heritage management and are based at Artefact's Newcastle office in Mayfield West.
Jenny's lived in the Hunter Region for over 6 years and has been involved in a wide-range of transport infrastructure and commercial development projects. She's an expert in historic (non-Aboriginal) heritage.
Kristen is well established in Newcastle having previously worked at Newcastle Museum and with Fort Scratchley Historical Society in the management of Newcastle’s premier historic site.
Jenny and Kristen are supported by a 50-strong team based in Sydney and collectively we offer a range of professional services including historical and Aboriginal archaeology, heritage interpretation, history, built environment, environmental assessments, Aboriginal cultural heritage and training.
Importantly Artefact believes it is essential to collaborate with First Nations communities and has strong connections with members of the local Aboriginal land councils. Our program of employing in-house Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Officers to work on projects points to our belief that Aboriginal people are best placed to manage their own heritage.
If your project requires specialist heritage advice coupled with local knowledge and connections - then we've got you covered.
You can find us on (02) 9518 8411 and office@artefact.net.au
Image: Kristen Tola (left) and Jenny Winnett (right) outside Customs House in Newcastle.
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