The Billabong

• Prize
  Winner in Other / Exhibition design, Museum exhibitions / Exhibition design
• Company
  Arterial Design Pty Ltd
• Lead
  Jan Nowell
• Team
  Nick Lawson, Luke Bicevskis, Dean Stevenson
• Client
  Winton Shire Council
• Credits
  Photography by Christopher Frederick Jones
• Video
  Link to video

The Billabong is an immersive storytelling space made up of an unfurling ribbon form that unravels as a curtain of translucent rods at the centre of a major exhibition space. Gentle ambient music and twinkling blue projections create a poetic evocation of The Billabong, a beguiling object/space for dreamlike projections and reflections. The material held within the rods allow the images to penetrate the surface appearing in full resolution on both sides. The interior ceiling and floor are highly reflective surfaces. This immersive experience tells the stories of land and environmental phenomena.

Arterial are masters in conceptual design, detailed documentation and installation of both indoor and outdoor cultural learning environments. Arterial offer our expertise in designing for all mediums from 2D graphics to 3D mechanical, digital interactivity, multimedia design, immersive environments as well as audio and 3D motion graphics/animation and museum quality object display systems. Arterial have experience in designing and implementing visitor experiences - museum exhibitions to masterplans, children’s play environments, specialist interactive and educational learning discovery centres