Andrew Hull
It was some time in January 2003 when the Project Officer, Penny Slater asked if I would be interested in applying for the position of facilitator for a project called the ‘Culturally Creative Stormwater Education Program’. I was mildly interested, but really wondered what we could do with a problem like stormwater in a low rainfall area like Bourke.

After a small amount of research, I discovered what an important issue stormwater is to a sensitive environment like the Darling River Catchment and I was instantly hooked into the project.

Over the next eighteen months, we created a mountain of artworks for the Bourke community that portrayed the issue of stormwater in a different way. The community began talking, the media began running stories, and soon, national magazines, arts journals and statewide radio were running stories on this unique project.

Please have a browse around this site. I hope you find it entertaining and informative and are inspired to take on issues relevant to your community in a new, exciting way.

Andrew Hull.
Project Facilitator

 

This project ran between February 2003 and April 2004.

Peg-nose fish courtesy of Mambo Australia

Funded by the EPA and the Stormwater Trust, the project was administered by the Bourke Shire Council.