AMP OFFICE TABLE INSTALLATION
Five emerging Koori artists worked with Koskela to design 15 large tables for AMP’s refurbished Circular Quay office.
Five emerging Koori artists worked with Koskela to design 15 large tables for 15 floors of AMP’s refurbished office in the QQT at Warrane (Circular Quay).
Myself, and fellow artists – Chloe Little, Maddison Gibbs, Dylan Barnes and Josh Sly – each worked to co-design the table’s base as well as creating unique artworks for each tabletop.
This important project was initiated by AMP in 2019 and the final tables have now been installed.
In addition, artwork panels will be incorporated onto a servery unit. The artwork aims to create a visual and cultural focal point on each floor that brings people together and will also reflect AMP Capital’s Reconciliation Action Plan.
Year
2019 – 22
Title
Our Land, Our Water, Our Sky
Location
Sydney – Gadigal Country
Client
Koskela
The 15 tables are around 7-metres long with undulating organic shapes.
These tables are now installed in the same place on each of 15 levels of the building in the tea point or break-out space for staff on each floor. The shape of the table is a reference to the shapes made by the flowers of the cobajora (Yellow Stringybark trees) which were used to make nawi canoes used for fishing in the Sydney Harbour.
“My Series of tables is based on the overarching theme of Land Meets Sea with an interlinking concept of Mother Earth and Father Sky. Across the tables I acknowledge the traditional uses of our natural environment and pay homage to the Eora Nation clans, with a focus on the Gadigal people who have utilised these resources for thousands of years. This is an important connection that holds the stories and lessons of custodianship. It holds the energy and connectedness of all living things, from our ancestor’s campfires in the sky, to the nawi canoes and whale dreaming stories, to the medicines, foods and resources a plenty in our flora and native vegetation.”
Jasmine Sarin
Artist & Graphic Designer
