selected projects

Opened / March 2008
Floor Area / 2,500m²

Designed as a living room for sports buffs, the National Sports Museum is located deep in the undercroft of the redeveloped Melbourne Cricket Ground stadium. The Museum includes the Olympic Exhibition, Sport Australia Hall of Fame, dedicated galleries for Cricket, Australian Rules Football and Multi-sports, temporary exhibition galleries and an interactive sports hall. Traditional museum displays are developed with contemporary themes and high-technology interactives.

Photography by John Gollings
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Opened / February 2008
Area / 1200m²
Awarded / Premier’s Design Award 2008 in Cultural Exhibition Design
Reviewed / Artichoke magazine issue 23 

The Conflicts 1945 to Today galleries in the Australian War Memorial commemorate Australia’s post WW2 wars and peace-keeping operations. The galleries cover Korea, Malaya and Indonesia, Vietnam, Afghanistan and the two Gulf Wars. The interpretive approach is to present personal stories through both traditional and contemporary media, allowing the visitor to engage at different levels with the hardship and horrors experienced by Australian personnel. Whilst the context might have changed, the individual experiences of Australians in any of the conflicts are as relevant today as they were at the time.

Photography by Dianna Snape
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Opened / 2007
Floor Area / 400 m²
Awards / Interior Design Awards, Public/Institutional Interior Design - Shortlisted

Commissioned by the Sisters of St Joseph, the Mary MacKillop Museum reflects on the legacy of Mary MacKillop and promotes her life and spiritual values to the public and visiting religious conference groups. Serene and contemplative by nature, the exhibition includes a moving multimedia piece and a number of important religious relics.

Photography by Dianna Snape
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Opened / November 2006
Floor Area / 400m²
Reviewed / Artichoke magazine issue 18 

The MCC Museum tells the story of the Melbourne Cricket Club and its close links to the history of Melbourne. Designed as a comfortable lounge room for MCC members, the museum displays the Club’s private collection that includes cricket-related memorabilia, extensive papers and records, an outstanding array of fine art and the Baer Collection of fine porcelain dating back to the eighteenth century.

Photography by John Gollings
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Opened / December 2005
Floor Area / 450m²

The Marine Life Exhibition explores the marine diversity of Australia’s southern oceans with a particular emphasis on the Victorian coastline. Displays range from sponge gardens, reef and kelp, the giant squid and sperm whales, to feeding and hunting and the food web. The exhibition is a holistic immersive environment in which light and colour reduce as the visitor ventures into deeper waters. Complex graphics and multimedia are fully integrated into the experience and specialty interactives engage and educate visitors of all ages.

Photography by Dianna Snape
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Opened / December 2005
Floor Area / 500 m²
Awarded / Australian Zoos Association Large Scale Exhibits Award 2006

Located in a new building designed by Minifie Nixon Architects, the AWRC provides intense engagement with an injured animal’s journey from injury to rescue, treatment, recovery and release. Highly interactive displays teach visitors what to do with an injured animal, explain and demonstrate surgical techniques, explore the role of the laboratory and pathology in animal diagnosis and treatment, interpret necropsy and investigative biology and provide lessons in care, recovery, release and monitoring.

All photography by Dianna Snape
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Opened / August 2003
Floor Area / 300 m²

The Gallery of Medals forms part of the Shrine of Remembrance visitor centre designed by Ashton Raggatt McDougall Architects. The centre aims to teach visitors about the act of commemoration and the significance of the Shrine in contemporary Australian society. The Gallery introduces the visitor to the Centre, a 50 metre long presentation of 4000 medals representing the 400,000 Victorians who have served in war, a collection of original war medals and a poppy-filled floor trench. 

Photography by John Gollings
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Opened / December 2002
Floor Area / 3,000 m²
Awarded / Best New Tourism Venue in 2003 in the National Tourism Awards.

A multi-level maritime museum in a purpose built venue on the Fremantle waterfront, designed by Cox Howlett Bailey Woodland Architects, the WA Maritime Museum examines Western Australian seafaring heritage and contemporary maritime trade and culture. Individual galleries focus on Indian Ocean trading history and exploration, contemporary trade, defence, fishing, economics, leisure, Swan River and cultural diversity, highlighting the Museum’s collection of original watercraft. 

Photography by John Gollings
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Opened / August 2001
Floor Area / 1,200 m²

An interactive educational facility associated with CSIRO research laboratories, the Discovery exhibition demonstrates CSIRO research and projected improvements to Australian lives. Evocative and colourful interactive displays focus on key projects in Australian climate and air quality, sustainable energy production, dryland salinity, biodiversity, medical and communications technology, food production and gene technology.

Photography by John Gollings
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Opened / March 2000
Floor Area / 2,000 m²

An exhibition and corporate visitor centre, Ford Discovery showcases Ford Australia heritage with a wide range of historic and contemporary vehicles. Entertaining and educational displays explore automotive technology and link the vehicles to local and national history.

 
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Opened / May 1999
Floor Area / 1,700 m²

The redevelopment of the World War 2 Galleries in the Australian War Memorial Canberra forms an important element in the way Australia remembers and understands the experience and cost of the Second World War. The displays derive a unique character from the Memorial’s mission and collection. A strong philosophical and humanist viewpoint considers events and consequences in a manner that is accurate, empathetic, realistic and dignified.

Photography by John Gollings
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Opened / October 1998
Floor Area / 1,000 m²
Awarded / Design Institute of Australia, Major Interior Design, Victorian Design Awards, 1999 

The Immigration Museum documents the experience of immigration through personal immigrant stories of leavings, journeys and arrivals, and places emphasis on the social, political and human interest aspects of immigration. The museum makes use of the emotive aspects of memory and individual record to immerse the visitor in the experience of immigration via installations and contemporary displays.

Photography by John GollingsÂ
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