The Tweed, Clarence Valley & Byron Bay all have projects shortlisted for an award at 29th annual National Trust (NSW) Heritage Awards being held this Friday, 12 May 2023 in Sydney

 

Photo: InFocus2022 Compact Category winner Coastal Emus Walking, by Joy Hayman, depicts the emu projections with the Clarence River in the background. IMAGE: Clarence Valley Council Notice Board

The Building Bridges Emu Projection is shortlisted as one of eight finalists for the 'Events, Exhibitions and Tours' category in the 29^th annual National Trust (NSW) Heritage Awards.

Events, Exhibitions and Tours

• Building Bridges Emu Projection – entered by Clarence Valley Council

• CAPTIVATE – entered by National Art School

• Curios Shopfront Exhibition – entered by Haberfield Inner West Council Library and Haberfield Association

• Guraban: where the saltwater meets the freshwater – entered by Hurstville Museum & Gallery (Georges River Council)

• Mulaa Giilang: Wiradjuri stories of the night sky – entered by Orange Regional Museum

• Rouse Hill Psychedelia – entered by Museums of History NSW

• SHINE – Shining a Light on our Heritage and Museums – entered by Arts Mid North Coast Inc

• Unrealised Sydney exhibition – entered by Museums of History NSW

The Clarence Valley Council entry involved Emu artworks by local First Nations artists celebrating the endangered coastal emu being projected onto the Sunshine Sugar building in South Grafton throughout the Jacaranda Season. Council worked with those local artists, Sunshine Sugar, Esem projects, Transport for NSW (TfNSW) and Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC) to bring this part of Clarence Valley Councils wider “Building Bridges” project to fruition.

This year the National Trust Heritage Awards are considering 40 rich and diverse heritage projects spanning across New South Wales in ten different categories.

In the Northern Rivers region Clarence Valley Council is not alone in being on this year's National Trust Heritage Award shortlists.

There are:

• Conservation – Interiors and Objects: Green Frog Restoration – entered by Transport for NSW and Byron Bay Historical Society

• Conservation – Landscape: Northern Rivers Rail Trail – Tweed section – entered by Tweed Shire Council

Winners will be announced at a lunch and awards ceremony this Friday, 12 May at the heritage-listed Doltone House, Jones Bay Wharf, 26-32 Pirrama Road, Pyrmont Point NSW.