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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.
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Artefact worked with DesignInc and Arenco to develop an interpretive approach for the project.
We identified three key stories associated with Blackheath Station and travel across the mountains – one reflecting ancient trackways used by Aboriginal people across the mountain ridge lines, one on the history of this early station on the Great Western train line, which opened in 1868, and one on the importance of Blackheath Station’s cool-climate gardens.
Travel to the Blue Mountains increased as more people enjoyed the natural beauty of the area on day rail trips, and Blackheath Station was expanded in the 1890s and early 1900s. Ticket sales at Blackheath Station soared from 4,254 in 1884 to 70,000 in 1920, as rail tourism to the area increased.
A fire damaged the station building in 1985, but it was carefully restored using the original station architectural plans.
Artefact worked with Darug artist Shay Tobin who developed a design for perforated metal screens at the station entry which depicted ‘Muru’ (Pathways), the ancient trackways and surrounding flora of the area.
We also developed a series of heritage panels exploring the history of the station and suburb which were installed on the station. Architectural drawings of the station from 1898 were transferred onto metal screens in the Kiss and Ride shelter.
Cold climate plantings were also an interpretive feature, reflecting the beauty of the established cold-climate gardens around Blackheath. All of these elements add to the community’s positive experience of the upgraded, accessible station.
“The artwork Muru (Pathways) is a bird’s eye view of the area. The concentric circles in the artwork are a place of gathering or community. The solid line running through the artwork is the Great Western Highway. Part of the motivation for the artwork is for people to reflect that the way they travelled here is actually along an ancient pathway.”
Shay Tobin, Darug Artist, 2023
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