Commissions

Milkwood Steiner School operates on Larrakia Country in Garramilla, Darwin. Its curriculum is an adaptation of the Australian Steiner Curriculum Framework, consciously shaped by place, climate, and the cultural contexts and histories of its community. 

The school sought a form capable of engaging with curriculum as lived, relational practice. Specifically, the artwork was intended to: honour the complexity of the curriculum without reducing it to simplified diagrams or linear maps, reflect continuity, recurrence, and return across years of learning, hold Indigenous and non-Indigenous knowledge systems in relationship without collapsing their dif

Sections of the work were intentionally left unresolved to allow for collaboration with First Nations artists who partner with the school. The final stages of the artwork were developed through consultation with the school’s College of Teachers and Traditional Owner, Neville Namarnyilk.