[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":185},["ShallowReactive",2],{"projects-home":3},[4,72,128],{"id":5,"status":6,"sort":7,"user_created":8,"date_created":9,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":11,"title":12,"title_wrapped":13,"intro":14,"slug":15,"title_wrapped_column_indent":16,"title_wrapped_column_span":17,"intro_column_indent":18,"intro_column_span":19,"translation_column_indent":18,"translation_column_span":20,"concept_image":21,"summary":22,"blocks":23,"translation":35,"key_image":67},12,"published",3,"eff6683a-1dde-484e-b978-d0d0aa192fe9","2025-12-09T05:26:03.000Z","c60f67a5-cb24-475c-9315-c577e0ae8b34","2026-07-03T04:35:18.000Z","Tree of Knowledge Memorial","Tree of Knowledge \nMemorial","To their credit, the client took our collaborating partner, Brian Hooper Architects, initial advice and saved both the relic tree's root ball and branches. In this way the Tree remains connected to the ground (to Country) and to its history. A history visible through a new glass floor and the relic branches reaching out to the lost canopy.   ","tree-of-knowledge-memorial",2,6,0,5,9,"1640e83f-ed2c-44be-a305-5316dfa48820",null,[24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34],268,68,104,105,106,101,103,29,30,102,107,[36],{"id":7,"status":6,"user_created":8,"date_created":37,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":38,"title":39,"artist":40,"type":41,"project":5,"vimeo_id":42,"duration":43,"translation_number":44,"text":22,"artist_statement":45,"written_compact_display":22,"medium_description":46,"slug":47,"summary":22,"thumb_image":48,"statement_links":49,"artist_bio":50,"image":22,"home_horizontal":60,"home_vertical":22},"2026-02-11T02:43:56.000Z","2026-07-01T02:35:02.000Z","About a Tree","David Banney","video","1192099670","05:52",4,"\u003Cp>\u003Cem>About a Tree\u003C/em> was commissioned by m3architecture, as a musical response to their commemorative building for the Tree of Knowledge in Barcaldine, Queensland. \u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>In the late nineteenth century Barcaldine was the end of the Central Western Railway at a time when pastoralists were notorious for poor treatment of their workers. This led, in 1891, to a Shearer's Strike that garnered national attention. There was a tree outside the Barcaldine Railway Station that became the meeting point for those engaging in industrial action. The 1891 strike failed, and this failure gave energy to a movement that would become the Australian Labor Party. In 1892 the manifesto of the Queensland Labor Party was announced in an event that took place under the tree. The manifesto is one of the foundation documents of the Australian Labor Party and in 2009, the document was added to UNESCO's Memory of the World International Register. The ghost gum entered Labor Party folklore as the Tree of Knowledge. \u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>In 2006 the tree was poisoned, leaving just a stump and a few dead branches. m3architecture was approached, in collaboration with Brian Hooper, to produce a memorial to the tree. The result can be readily seen on the internet and on m3architecture's website. The outer screen of the memorial is clad in charcoaled timber, creating a kind of mourning veil around the relic. The central space is defined by 3600 suspended timber members, which are hung to form the external shape of the original canopy. The memorial won The Lachlan Macquarie Award for Heritage Architecture and a National Commendation for Public Architecture at the 2010 National Architecture Awards of the Australian Institute of Architects.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>This composition tells the story of the tree. One might imagine a tourist entering the memorial, their gaze immediately drawn upwards to the hanging timbers, gently moving and touching in the breeze. A tour guide interrupts and offers to tell the story of the tree. The story begins with an elegy to the tree that must have been there for some decades before the events that made it famous, and now lives on as a ghost. Then comes a faster section, permeated by an ostinato in the piano that depicts the movement of a train. This section is faster and more dramatic, depicting the conflict and tension at the heart of the story. The music builds to a climax that gives way to a triumphant transformation of the original elegiac melody – a train journey through the thrills and spills of modern Australia. The train quietly disappears into the distance and piece ends with a reprise of the opening material, bringing us back to the memorial itself, looking forever upwards.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>David Banney\u003C/strong>\u003C/p>","Performed by Greg Smith (piano) with the Christ Church Camerata String Quartet\nMusic © David Banney, 2026","4-about-a-tree-by-david-banney","5ca0ef85-478e-424a-af84-fcde16ac470a",[16],{"id":7,"user_created":8,"date_created":51,"user_updated":22,"date_updated":22,"artist":40,"media_type":52,"vimeo_id":22,"video_caption":22,"video_duration":22,"image":53,"column_1":54,"column_2":55,"more_info_text":56,"more_info_link":57,"image_caption":58,"translation":59},"2026-02-11T02:08:32.000Z","image","056530fe-3638-425d-a48e-456fdd2ee4fc","\u003Cdiv id=\"bgLayers_comp-l8wic5lz\" class=\"MW5IWV\" data-hook=\"bgLayers\" data-motion-part=\"BG_LAYER comp-l8wic5lz\">\n\u003Cdiv id=\"bgMedia_comp-l8wic5lz\" class=\"VgO9Yg\" data-motion-part=\"BG_MEDIA comp-l8wic5lz\">\u003C/div>\n\u003C/div>\n\u003Cdiv class=\"\" data-mesh-id=\"comp-l8wic5lzinlineContent\" data-testid=\"inline-content\">\n\u003Cdiv data-mesh-id=\"comp-l8wic5lzinlineContent-gridContainer\" data-testid=\"mesh-container-content\">\n\u003Csection id=\"comp-k35p0co2\" class=\"comp-k35p0co2 CohWsy wixui-column-strip\">\n\u003Cdiv id=\"bgLayers_comp-k35p0co2\" class=\"if7Vw2\" data-hook=\"bgLayers\" data-motion-part=\"BG_LAYER comp-k35p0co2\">\n\u003Cdiv id=\"bgMedia_comp-k35p0co2\" class=\"wG8dni\" data-motion-part=\"BG_MEDIA comp-k35p0co2\">\u003C/div>\n\u003C/div>\n\u003Cdiv class=\"V5AUxf\" data-testid=\"columns\">\n\u003Cdiv id=\"comp-k35p0cp9\" class=\"comp-k35p0cp9 YzqVVZ wixui-column-strip__column\">\n\u003Cdiv id=\"bgLayers_comp-k35p0cp9\" class=\"MW5IWV\" data-hook=\"bgLayers\" data-motion-part=\"BG_LAYER comp-k35p0cp9\">\n\u003Cdiv id=\"bgMedia_comp-k35p0cp9\" class=\"VgO9Yg\" data-motion-part=\"BG_MEDIA comp-k35p0cp9\">\u003C/div>\n\u003C/div>\n\u003Cdiv class=\"\" data-mesh-id=\"comp-k35p0cp9inlineContent\" data-testid=\"inline-content\">\n\u003Cdiv data-mesh-id=\"comp-k35p0cp9inlineContent-gridContainer\" data-testid=\"mesh-container-content\">\n\u003Cdiv id=\"comp-k35p0cq1\" class=\"Z_l5lU ku3DBC zQ9jDz qvSjx3 Vq6kJx comp-k35p0cq1 wixui-rich-text\" data-testid=\"richTextElement\">\n\u003Cp class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\">\u003Cspan class=\"color_15 wixui-rich-text__text\">\u003Cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">David Banney was born in Brisbane, Australia, and is the Director of Music at Christ \u003C/span>\u003C/span>\u003Cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">Church Cathedral, Newcastle, the Artistic Director of the Christ Church Camerata, and was the founding director of the Newcastle Music Festival. An Associate Artist at the Australian Music Centre, David is a past winner of the ABC Australian Young Conductor of the Year Award and has conducted many of Australia's leading orchestras and ensembles, including the Queensland Symphony, Queensland Philharmonic, Opera Queensland, West Australian Symphony, Adelaide Symphony and Canberra Symphony. He has worked as conductor or chamber musician with \u003C/span>\u003Cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">soloists including Roger Woodward, Tamara Anna Cislowska, Kathryn Selby, Andrea Lam  and Simon Tedeschi (piano), Susan Collins and Tor Fromhyr (violin), Andrew Blanch (guitar), Sally Walker (flute), singers \u003C/span>\u003Cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">Deborah Humble, \u003C/span>\u003Cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">Christopher\u003C/span>\u003Cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"> Allan, Grace Knight \u003C/span>\u003Cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">and Deborah Conway, and William Barton (didgeridoo). His teachers have included Vernon Handley and Sir Andrew Davis (conducting) and Patricia Pollett (viola).\u003C/span>\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\">\u003Cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">As a composer, David won the ABC Young Composers Competition, and his output includes chamber music, choral music, orchestral music and scores for documentary films. His music has been performed by artists including Susan Collins (violin), Anthea Scott-Mitchell (cello), the Adelaide and Queensland Symphony Orchestras, the NSW Doctors Orchestra, the Choir of Christ Church Cathedral and the Christ Church Camerata. \u003C/span>\u003C/p>\n\u003C/div>\n\u003C/div>\n\u003C/div>\n\u003C/div>\n\u003C/div>\n\u003C/section>\n\u003C/div>\n\u003C/div>","\u003Cp class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\">\u003Cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">As an educator, David has \u003C/span>\u003Cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">enjoyed a long association with Géza Szilvay, the creator of \u003C/span>\u003Cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">the Colourstrings curriculum. David has taught at many levels, from primary school to \u003C/span>\u003Cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">postgraduate \u003C/span>\u003Cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">level, and has composed a large body of music for young players based on the Kodály approach to music education. With ABC radio journalist Paul Bevan, David presented more than three hundred episodes of Banney's Baton Banter - a weekly chat about music and life on ABC1233. David devised 'Tigers and Teapots: Songs for Children' - a collection of children's songs arranged for choir and strings, which has been performed throughout Australia, and has become a staple of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra's education program. \u003C/span>\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\">\u003Cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">As a \u003C/span>\u003Cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">researcher, David has \u003C/span>\u003Cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">published papers and spoken at \u003C/span>\u003Cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">numerous \u003C/span>\u003Cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">conferences on two \u003C/span>\u003Cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">subject\u003C/span>\u003Cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"> areas - symmetry breaking in music and Kodály-based music education in the Australian context.\u003C/span>\u003C/p>","davidbanney.com","https://www.davidbanney.com/about","[[Photo courtesy Newcastle Cathedral]]",[7],{"id":61,"width":62,"height":63,"modified_on":64,"focal_point_x":65,"focal_point_y":66},"5c4ebc7e-66f9-459e-a899-134948444635",4100,2000,"2026-05-08T05:06:12.000Z",2050,1000,{"id":68,"width":69,"height":70,"modified_on":71,"focal_point_x":22,"focal_point_y":22},"fee58d98-d014-4453-8058-cfb68a44e755",5000,3379,"2026-06-05T05:07:38.000Z",{"id":73,"status":6,"sort":19,"user_created":8,"date_created":74,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":75,"title":76,"title_wrapped":77,"intro":78,"slug":79,"title_wrapped_column_indent":16,"title_wrapped_column_span":17,"intro_column_indent":44,"intro_column_span":19,"translation_column_indent":18,"translation_column_span":20,"concept_image":80,"summary":22,"blocks":81,"translation":96,"key_image":127},25,"2025-12-10T07:17:11.000Z","2026-07-03T00:47:45.000Z","Brisbane Girls Grammar School \nCherrell Hirst Creative Learning Centre","Brisbane Girls Grammar School \nCreative Learning Centre","In 2003, in the world of secondary schools, this was an ambitious building – eight floors, home to Music, Drama, Design Technology, Art, Staff and Cafeteria, traversing around 20m of cross fall. Due to the multiplicitous nature of the brief and the complexity of the land, the concept ‘making connections’ emerged.","brisbane-girls-grammar-school-cherrell-hirst-creative-learning-centre","b8985b2b-7c41-4418-a704-2ffc4dea5197",[82,83,84,85,86,87,88,89,90,91,92,93,94,95],57,301,69,74,303,73,305,308,304,309,306,310,307,311,[97],{"id":16,"status":6,"user_created":8,"date_created":98,"user_updated":8,"date_updated":99,"title":100,"artist":101,"type":41,"project":73,"vimeo_id":102,"duration":103,"translation_number":104,"text":22,"artist_statement":105,"written_compact_display":22,"medium_description":106,"slug":107,"summary":22,"thumb_image":108,"statement_links":109,"artist_bio":110,"image":119,"home_horizontal":124,"home_vertical":22},"2026-02-09T01:26:52.000Z","2026-07-08T07:55:08.000Z","Block Universe","Daniel Crooks","1207991906","06:51",1,"\u003Cp>\u003Cem>Block Universe\u003C/em> takes the Escher-like qualities of the internal stairwell at Brisbane Girls Grammar as a conceptual departure point. This architectural site, its layered sight lines, shifting perspectives, and recursive geometry, becomes a framework for exploring complex systems and visual paradoxes.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>Drawing inspiration from fields as diverse as imaginary architecture, cellular automata, protein folding, the block universe theory, labyrinthine structures, drawing machines, integrated circuit design, perspective theory and art history, the project weaves together scientific logic and visual speculation.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>At the heart of the work is a study in perception: using the original architectural model of the stairwell, I have experimented with virtual camera placement, composition and overlapping concurrent fields of view that are then reimposed on the real world with a real camera. Merging multiple perspectives and playing with discontinuities in time and space, the final work appears at once seamless, coherent and yet manifestly impossible.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp class=\"p2\">\u003Cstrong>Daniel Crooks\u003C/strong>\u003C/p>","2026, 16:9, 4K, Stereo\nSound and Music: Byron Scullin","1-block-universe-by-daniel-crooks","e06e922f-f9f9-454e-a044-55f3548e438d",[],{"id":16,"user_created":8,"date_created":111,"user_updated":8,"date_updated":112,"artist":101,"media_type":52,"vimeo_id":22,"video_caption":22,"video_duration":22,"image":113,"column_1":114,"column_2":115,"more_info_text":116,"more_info_link":117,"image_caption":22,"translation":118},"2026-02-09T01:19:45.000Z","2026-06-23T05:14:07.000Z","f0cba0ef-6a47-499a-88d1-d8b2fd95f3a6","\u003Cp class=\"p1\">A pre-eminent figure and authority in his field, Daniel Crooks has spent his career crafting a distinct visual language unique to his practice. Working predominantly in video, photography and sculpture, Crooks is preoccupied with time and motion in an altered state.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp class=\"p1\">Crooks is a careful observer of the everyday through a lens that splinters and refracts. His treatment of time is non-linear, pliable and warped. Within Crooks’s video work, our perception of space does not remain in a solid-state. Like many scientists and philosophers, Crooks is fascinated by the potential of a fourth dimension to the human existence. His works are a suggestion of what it might be like to experience the world beyond three spatial dimensions with a fourth dimension that is temporal: the dimension of time.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp class=\"p2\">Crooks’s technique is the result of rigorous exploration and experimentation throughout his career, with the artist repeatedly examining and altering the same subject matter through new perspectives.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp class=\"p1\">His recent public projects include Boundary Conditions, Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney, 2022; Structured Light, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2022; Water Clocks, 2022, Murdoch University, Perth; and Phantom Ride, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, 2016.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp class=\"p1\">Daniel Crooks’s works are included in significant international collections and institutions including National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; M+/Museum of Visual Culture, Hong Kong; Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne; Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; and the Chartwell Collection, Auckland.\u003C/p>","danielcrooks.com","https://danielcrooks.com/",[16],{"id":120,"width":121,"height":122,"modified_on":123,"focal_point_x":22,"focal_point_y":22},"d92f79ad-7d8b-497e-9ea0-467a3ca2aefb",2720,1530,"2026-05-18T23:44:01.000Z",{"id":125,"width":62,"height":63,"modified_on":126,"focal_point_x":65,"focal_point_y":66},"f20a1444-1c61-4bac-a497-5b7152cdd8e0","2026-05-08T05:00:17.000Z",{"id":125,"width":62,"height":63,"modified_on":126,"focal_point_x":65,"focal_point_y":66},{"id":129,"status":6,"sort":20,"user_created":8,"date_created":130,"user_updated":10,"date_updated":131,"title":132,"title_wrapped":132,"intro":133,"slug":134,"title_wrapped_column_indent":16,"title_wrapped_column_span":17,"intro_column_indent":44,"intro_column_span":19,"translation_column_indent":18,"translation_column_span":20,"concept_image":135,"summary":22,"blocks":136,"translation":149,"key_image":180},13,"2025-12-09T05:31:19.000Z","2026-07-02T22:57:30.000Z","The University of Sydney \nWomen’s College Sibyl Centre","Historically, most Colleges are built of brick or stone – buildings of gravitas, set back from the street in immaculate gardens, designed to be revered.  The University of Sydney’s Womens College is no different in that sense – yet it has always been radical.","the-university-of-sydney-womens-college-sibyl-centre","24e2740e-9ef6-481a-bd85-e450706b9514",[137,138,139,140,141,142,143,144,145,146,147,148],31,368,367,125,369,375,370,373,371,376,372,377,[150],{"id":104,"status":6,"user_created":151,"date_created":152,"user_updated":8,"date_updated":153,"title":154,"artist":155,"type":156,"project":129,"vimeo_id":22,"duration":22,"translation_number":7,"text":157,"artist_statement":22,"written_compact_display":158,"medium_description":22,"slug":159,"summary":22,"thumb_image":160,"statement_links":161,"artist_bio":162,"image":22,"home_horizontal":173,"home_vertical":22},"ca71a88e-962d-422a-b1c5-f5989332a196","2026-02-05T00:30:00.000Z","2026-06-23T02:16:44.000Z","let the past in","Jazz Money","written","\u003Cdiv>listen close for footfall of dance\u003C/div>\n\u003Cdiv>                                        here\u003C/div>\n\u003Cdiv>        whose past and always presence\u003C/div>\n\u003Cdiv>                                          rise and fall\u003C/div>\n\u003Cdiv>                  as shadows flit across the warm earth\u003C/div>\n\u003Cdiv> \u003C/div>\n\u003Cdiv>               grasses shimmying against the elegant arch\u003C/div>\n\u003Cdiv>of a silvered trunk\u003C/div>\n\u003Cdiv>                       an arm flung against a vast sky\u003C/div>\n\u003Cdiv> \u003C/div>\n\u003Cdiv>the copper curve framing firmament\u003C/div>\n\u003Cdiv>    beholding           this held place\u003C/div>\n\u003Cdiv>                    this stirred ground\u003C/div>\n\u003Cdiv>                       this birthing water\u003C/div>\n\u003Cdiv> \u003C/div>\n\u003Cdiv>under dappled light the trees remember\u003C/div>\n\u003Cdiv>                        gathered women\u003C/div>\n\u003Cdiv>                   strong words\u003C/div>\n\u003Cdiv>                       tender gestures\u003C/div>\n\u003Cdiv>               and all these many stories\u003C/div>\n\u003Cdiv> \u003C/div>\n\u003Cdiv>           build it up brick\u003C/div>\n\u003Cdiv>       build it up glass\u003C/div>\n\u003Cdiv>           build it up copper\u003C/div>\n\u003Cdiv>let the light pour through\u003C/div>\n\u003Cdiv>      let the past in\u003C/div>\n\u003Cdiv> \u003C/div>\n\u003Cdiv>        push against the distancing divide\u003C/div>\n\u003Cdiv>to bathe those faces in the sun\u003C/div>\n\u003Cdiv> \u003C/div>\n\u003Cdiv>echoing with the sound of song and laughter\u003C/div>\n\u003Cdiv>               the strength of a gentle touch\u003C/div>\n\u003Cdiv> \u003C/div>\n\u003Cdiv>under the weight of trees\u003C/div>\n\u003Cdiv>                                    and their knowing\u003C/div>\n\u003Cdiv>       women\u003C/div>\n\u003Cdiv>              and their gathering\u003C/div>\n\u003Cdiv>dancing\u003C/div>\n\u003Cdiv>          and this future\u003C/div>","full_text","3-let-the-past-in-by-jazz-money","5511d061-083c-4291-8674-252770c46e8e",[],{"id":104,"user_created":151,"date_created":163,"user_updated":8,"date_updated":164,"artist":155,"media_type":41,"vimeo_id":165,"video_caption":166,"video_duration":167,"image":22,"column_1":168,"column_2":169,"more_info_text":170,"more_info_link":171,"image_caption":22,"translation":172},"2026-02-05T11:37:28.000Z","2026-03-31T01:32:58.000Z","1178658656","{{let the past in}} Reading by Jazz Money","02.13","\u003Cp>With a practice centred in poetics, Jazz Money produces work across a range of mediums including visual art, film, performance, audio and print. She has been described by Vogue Australia as a “multidisciplinary force.”\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>Jazz Money’s first poetry collection, the best-selling how to make a basket (UQP, 2021) won the 2020 David Unaipon Award from the State Library of Queensland. Their recently released second collection mark the dawn (UQP, 2024) is the 2024 recipient of the UQP Quentin Bryce Award and is available now through all good book stores.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>Jazz's artworks have been presented in public settings and leading institutions including: ACCA, Melbourne; ACMI, Melbourne; The Art Gallery of South Australia; The Art Gallery of Western Australia; Carriageworks, Sydney; Fremantle Biennale; HeK Basel, Switzerland; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Pivô, São Paulo; Powerhouse, Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences, Sydney; The Shed, New York; and others.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp class=\"p1\">Their writing has been widely published nationally and internationally, and performed on stages around the world, including: TEDx Sydney; the Edinburgh International Book Festival; the Sydney Opera House; Literature Live! Mumbai; Performance Space New York; Hay Festival, Wales; Auckland Writers Festival; PEN International; and a wide range of arts and literary festivals in every Australian state and territory.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp class=\"p1\">Trained as a filmmaker, Jazz’s first feature film WINHANGANHA, was commissioned by the National Film and Sound Archive and premiered in November 2023 in Sydney at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. WINHANGANHA is a groundbreaking film made entirely of archival footage that reexamines Australia's audio-visual history from a First Nations perspective. It toured nationally and internationally throughout 2025.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp class=\"p2\">Jazz is a proud descendant of the Wiradjuri nation, and is currently based on Wangal land in Sydney, Australia.\u003C/p>","jazz.money","https://www.jazz.money/",[104],{"id":174,"width":175,"height":176,"modified_on":177,"focal_point_x":178,"focal_point_y":179},"2146b7d7-b6c5-47db-9487-95d75f01dd6a",3500,1708,"2026-05-08T05:12:13.000Z",1906,856,{"id":181,"width":182,"height":183,"modified_on":184,"focal_point_x":22,"focal_point_y":22},"fa149576-94a2-4e9a-a56e-fec63eee5281",2318,1308,"2026-06-24T03:40:47.000Z",1783498843063]