Western Australian Sites
Swarbrick Wilderness Discovery
intro / overview / wall & art / images / location
WA Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC)
location: North Walpole Road, North Walpole
Project description
The Walpole Wilderness Discovery Centre, which Swarbrick Wilderness Discovery is a part of, aims to immerse visitors in a variety of enriching experiences with the Walpole Wilderness Area. These experiences will evoke and provoke feelings and ideas about the Walpole Wilderness Area, the forests and the wilderness.
Swarbrick Wilderness Discovery is an interpretation trail that includes the Wilderness Wall of Perception and five interpretive public artworks. It is supported by a carpark and access road from North Walpole Road. The project focuses on immersing the visitor in a powerful personal journey of interpretation and is a departure from traditional interpretation, in that the materiality of the Wall interacts with and encourages visitors to contemplate their own personal perceptions of wilderness.
Scope of works
- Design and construction of site facilities, interpretation trail and Wilderness Wall of Perception;
- Installation of interpretive public art works;
- Provision of wheelchair accessible path to artwork sites; and
- Construction of access road and car park.
Project Team
Project Management – DEC
Landscape Architecture and Architectural Design – DEC
Interpretation and Graphic Design – DEC
Engineer – Kevin Lodge
ArtSource – Jenny Kerr
Artist – Peter Farmer; ‘Message Sticks’
Artist – Lorenna Grant and Alan Clark; “5000 Seeds”, “The Colonial Totem”, “The Ghost Feather” and “The Golden Torus”.
Client
Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC)
intro / overview / wall & art / images / location
April 2008
