Caring for the world’s oldest surviving human art form.
Rock Art embraces both painted and stenciled art on cave and rock shelter walls as well as engraved petroglyphs and constructed geoglyphs. Such art sites are extremely important to Australia’s First Nation Peoples as direct communications from their ancestors. Such art includes depictions by the artist of aspects of life and cosmology as existed in times long past.
Our team includes one of Australia’s leading rock art specialists. Kelvin Officer has specialist skills and training in the archaeological analysis, recording and conservation of Aboriginal rock art sites; his PhD dissertation was on theoretical aspects of rock art analysis. He has undertaken a number of major rock arts studies including the ‘NPWS southeast region rock art conservation project’.
While many rock art sites are desirable sites for public education and feature in regional cultural tourism, they are vulnerable to damage from human activities and natural events such as bushfire. They are also vulnerable to impacts from climate change and air pollution.
We work with communities and clients to help conserve and protect Aboriginal rock art.
Our Services include:
- Archival photography
- Rock art recording
- Site survey and assessment
- Post disaster auditing
- Conservation planning
- Impact assessment
- Interpretation
