Placemaking NSW is promising a year-long curated arts and culture program featuring dance and music at the fish market in 2026.
Master weaver Nadeena Dixon created a traditional woven fish net as a prototype for her bronze, Birrang Narrami (Star Net).
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In Gadigal cosmology, the sky is regarded as a giant net, with the position of star clusters such as the Pleiades, also known as the Seven Sisters, used to predict fish runs along Australian’s east coast.
“All the threads in the star net talk about our communities, that includes everybody, and it includes the earth, and the sky and the water and the plants and the animals,” Dixon says. “You can’t pull one thread without affecting all other life.”
Dixon’s woven net was used to direct cast some of the pieces, while for others silicone moulds were made and wax poured in. Wax-filled ceramics were then heated in a furnace to melt out the wax, the ceramics left with a void in the shape of the wax into which the bronze was poured for the final cast piece.
Leanne Tobin has invoked the creator river serpent, Gurangady, for The Call of Ngura (Country).
For his bronze, The Nawi, Bidjigal elder Uncle Steven Russell cut the hull from a specially selected stringy bark tree.
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