BridgeClimb

Taleena Simon was commissioned by BridgeClimb to create an artwork to be displayed at their Sydney headquarters and to feature on their new suits, which were launched in 2024.

Blue dots in the background represent water/map of the harbour from port Jackson to the parramatta river. 

 Light and brown dots represent the land. The top left side represents when the humpback whales would come into the harbour to birth their babies. Top right is the fisher women in their Nawi’s catching fish with their bara with a fire pit in the centre. The bottom left represents burning of the bush land of Tallawoladah, the rocky headland of Warrane (Sydney Cove) to keep the country open. It also represents cooking fires high on the slopes with meals of barbecued fish and shellfish. You can also see Walla-Mulla the young male kangaroo leaping through the bush during a hunt. 

In the centre, the big gathering circle represents BridgeClimb. Inside you can see the pattern of the Harbour Bridge. On the outside are small gathering circles. These represent the groups who are participating in the Burrawa climb. The lines connecting the big gathering circle to the little ones represent the history of the Gadigal people and land being shared with the Burrawa groups. The traveling symbol within the gathering circles represent the people that have travelled from a far to visit the Harbour Bridge. The dots in the gathering circles represent everyone at BridgeClimb. Outside of the small gathering circles represents the Burrawa guides who guide travellers during the climb.

 The groups of 5 circles represent the 29 clans of the Eora nation.

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