The Great Dividing Range

ABOUT
This design is a response to the Sirius building in Sydney, Australia. Sirius is a prominent and important example of brutalist architecture and social housing in Australia, yet sits on some of the primest real estate in Sydney, which has become a target for property developers and the NSW government.

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DESIGN
The topography of Sirius in white represents the societal division of The Sydney Opera House and the public social house, city and suburbia, east and west, rich and poor: The Great Dividing Range.

The blue is lapis lazuli, named after a stone which its first use as a pigment was documented in 16th century cave paintings in Afghan temples. Because of the expense incurred by extracting the pigment, natural ultramarine blue is of the most expensive and precious pigments, equalling and sometimes exceeding the price of gold.

This is a representation of Sydney’s most affluent areas (which can be seen from Sirius) and the NSW Government’s value of money and investment over marginalised people and the greater social good.

Yellow represents community and hope, prevalent in less affluent areas and suburbia, where the residents of Sirius have been heartlessly and forcefully displaced by the NSW Government to accommodation described as “unsuitable”. [1]

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INFO
Poster comes with a beautifully designed PDF info booklet

Printed on 160gsm high quality matt bond paper

A percentage of sales will be donated to Save Our Sirius: http://saveoursirius.org

[1] “Last residents hold firm in brutal world”. The Sydney Morning Herald, 7 May 2017