"Kaldor Public Art Project 32".
17 September - 3 October 2016 Royal Botanic Garden Sydney.

Uncovering dramatic, lost histories of Sydney and the south-east of Australia, this book sheds new light on Australian cultural identity through an excavation of its past. This richly illustrated publication also includes original essays and interviews with leading Aboriginal writers including Bruce Pascoe – winner of two 2016 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards – Jeanine Leane, Hetti Perkins and Uncle Stan Grant Sr AM, alongside Australian academics Ross Gibson, Peter Kohane and Ilaria Vanni Accarigi. This book is being published to accompany a large-scale public art installation, the 32nd Kaldor Public Art Project, by Wiradjuri/Kamilaroi artist Jonathan Jones. His artwork will transform Sydney’s Royal Botanic Garden on its 200th anniversary. 

Welcome /Uncle Charles Madden
Forwards /John Kaldor, Kim Ellis, Hetti Perkins
Introduction, this lively world /Ross Gibson
Introduction, barrangal dyara (skin and bones) /Emma Pike
Documentation /Jonathan Jones, barrangal dyara (skin and bones)
Supplement, the garden palace in print, 1879-1882
Statement, the language, it has always been part of me /Uncle Stan Grant Senior on the Wiradjuri language
Essay, the palace and the hearth /Bruce Pascoe
Statement, we make them, they make us /Michael McDaniel on possum-skin cloaks
Essay, a paradise restored /Jeanine Leane
Statement, resillience in the landscape /Peter Cuneo on kangaroo grass and the cumberland plain
Essay, James Barnets gateway Syney /Peter Kohane
Statement, objects are the connections to tradition /Aunty Julie Freeman on landscape and language
Essay, the ethnological court at the garden palace /Illaria Vanna Accarigi
Statement, country needs community /Oliver Costello on cultural fire
Essay, gulpa ngawal anganya (deep listening friend) /Kimberly Moulton.