veterinary round house university of sydney - NSW

INDIVIDUAL
EDUCATION
2012 HERITAGE AWARDS
Winners & Highly Commended
CONSERVATION
REGENERATION
SUSTAINABILITY
RESEARCH

CONSERVATION
BUILT HERITAGE
Willoughby Incinerator
Conservation and Adaptive Reuse
GODDEN MACKAY LOGAN
Sydney Water’s Strategic
Heritage Asset
Management Program
Comrie Drinking Fountain
NSW PUBLIC WORKS, GOVERNMENTS
ARCHITECTS OFFICE
46-56 Gloucester Street,
The Rocks
SYDNEY
WATER
NSW PUBLIC WORKS, GOVERNMENTS
ARCHITECTS OFFICE
HIGHLY COMMENDED

CONSERVATION
BUILT HERITAGE
VETERINARY ROUND HOUSE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
Clive Lucas, Stapleton & Partners Pty Ltd
WINNER
SMALL SIZED PROJECT

CONSERVATION
BUILT HERITAGE
ENTRANCE & FORMER TRAM SHELTER TARONGA ZOO
Taronga Conservation Society
WINNER
MEDIUM SIZED PROJECT

CONSERVATION
BUILT HERITAGE
FORMER TRANSPORT HOUSE
Clive Lucas, Trueman, Zaniol & Associates
WINNER
LARGE SIZED PROJECT

CONSERVATION
BUILT HERITAGE
RESTORATION OF HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH
The Anglican Parish of Orange
WINNER
COMMUNITY GROUP

CONSERVATION
NATURAL HERITAGE
ENVIRONMENTAL REHABILITATION & CONSERVATION
OF RIVERBANKS OF THE PARRAMATTA RIVER IN
PARRAMATTA PARK Parramatta Park Trust
WINNER

CONSERVATION
MOVEABLE HERITAGE
Sustainable Collections Project Orange, Cabonne and Blayney
ORANGE CITY COUNCIL
HIGHLY COMMENDED

CONSERVATION
MOVEABLE HERITAGE
POWDER VAN PV22318
Rail Corp
WINNER

REGENERATION
REGENERATION &
NEW DEVELOPMENT
The Gallery
AUSTRALAND PROP GROUP
Trainworks
RAIL CORP
HIGHLY COMMENDED

REGENERATION
REGENERATION &
NEW DEVELOPMENT
FORMER COAL LOADER
Hassell
WINNER

SUSTAINABILITY
SUSTAINABILITY
COAL LOADER SUSTAINABILITY CENTRE
North Sydney Council
WINNER

RESEARCH
RESEARCH &
INVESTIGATION
Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Study City of Botany Bay
GONDWANA CONSULTING
HIGHLY COMMENDED

RESEARCH
RESEARCH &
INVESTIGATION
DAVIDSON WHALING STATION HISTORIC SITE
INTERPRETATION Godden Mackay Logan
WINNER

EDUCATION
EDUCATION, INTERPERTATION
& COMMUNITY
ENGAGEMENT
Life Under The Light: Lighthouse
Families of NSW Book
OFFICE OF ENVIRON & HERITAGE/ KIJAS
HISTORIES & WIRTH DESIGN
Barani/ Barrabugu
Aboriginal Journey
Government House
HISTORIC HOUSES TRUST
Alexander Macleay
From Scotland to Sydney
CITY OF SYDNEY
PARADISE PUBLISHERS
HIGHLY COMMENDED

EDUCATION
EDUCATION, INTERPERTATION
& COMMUNITY
ENGAGEMENT
ENEMY AT HOME
Historic Houses Trust of NSW, Migration Centre
& Powerhouse Museum
WINNER

EDUCATION
EDUCATION, INTERPERTATION
& COMMUNITY
ENGAGEMENT
HERITAGE MURALS ON GLOUCESTER &
HARRINGTON STREETS, THE ROCKS
Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority
WINNER

CAROLINE LAWRANCE
Cathy Donnelly Memorial Award
Caroline grew up in Melbourne, graduated with an arts degree in English Literature and, having satisfied her parents’ wish to get a
degree, immediately began an apprenticeship in cabinet making. This was followed by self‐employment making custom built
furniture, shop‐fitting, set‐building and teaching community classes in carpentry.
A year in London rescuing derelict housing ignited Caroline’s interest in heritage conservation and the need for specialized trades
training. On returning to Australia she worked as a carpenter, studied architecture at RMIT and worked in several architectural
practices before moving to Sydney to work with the Department of Housing in setting up a building co‐operative. She managed this
co‐op, which was aimed at providing trades training for women, for several years whilst studying building and gained a builder’s
license in 1991.
After a period at Lend Lease working as a site engineer Caroline set up her own building company which specialized in design,
renovations and conservation work, and also gained a masters degree in heritage conservation. She gave up full time building in
1997 (although she didn’t sell her tools!), finally finished architectural study, and moved into private architectural practice, working
mostly on heritage conservation planning.
Caroline joined National Parks & Wildlife Service in 2001 as an historic heritage project officer, working on landmark sites in
Sydney Harbour. In 2005 she joined the Country Culture & Heritage Division and has enthusiastically worked on NPWS cultural
heritage sites around the state from Tibooburra to Tenterfield, Cape Byron to Eden and hundreds of places in between. Her ability
to provide clear and pragmatic advice to staff‐ on‐ the‐ ground in regard to managing their heritage assets (usually with very
restrained budgets) has seen her become a trusted advisor and an influential advocate for heritage conservation. Her challenge is
to find appropriate solutions to building conservation issues, and convey the importance of regular maintenance. She instils
enthusiasm and optimism about heritage rather than fear.
SheisapastmemberoftheNationalTrustCemeteriesCommitteeandtheNSWHeritageOfficeTechnicalAdvisoryGroup.Shecoauthored
with Rachel Jackson a conservation guide to historic painted signs for the NSW Heritage Office. Her work for National
Parks was recognized with the DECCW Woman of the Year Award in 2011.
In her spare time she collects pieces of timber to recycle into furniture, is always on the lookout for historic painted signs,
and can’t explain her obsession with classic cars.

Trade/Skills Award
Gary Waller
Gary started his interest at 12 when his family house was extended by the local builder. He says of that experience ‘I loved the
smell of the fresh cut timber and the feeling of the site construction’. He was fortunate at school to have good woodwork teachers
and at the time a good syllabus teaching technique left over from the 50s spilling over to the 70s.
He left school in year ten knowing he wanted to go into carpentry with the intention of becoming a builder. He started a preapprenticeship
course that covered three trades cabinet making, upholstery & French polishing which he has found invaluable
over the years. He started his carpentry and joinery course in 1976, completed in 79 and completed the Clerk of works and
builders business by 81 and was licensed by 82.
His apprenticeship was served with WJ Bryant Builders and Joiners at Campsie studying under a tradesman that served his time in
1924. There he learnt a very traditional trade, working on Schools, Hospitals, Banks and quality older housing. Gary speaks very
highly of that experience saying and his teacher. He was taught to use tools that weren’t reliant on power e.g., rip saws, cross
cuts, bit and brace, ratchet and spiral screwdrivers, jack planes try planes smoothers and seriously sharp chisels only ever touched
by a timber mallet. This has led to a life time love of hand splitting, slaking rock lime, shellac, mixing waxes, spirit dyes, pigments,
distempers, fat based lime washes, animal glues and size. We have seen the fruits of that today with the beautiful split shingle
work at Sydney University Veterinary Round House.
Gary has always felt very fortunate to have followed a path through heritage works citing projects like Dundullimal which opened
his eyes to the split slab world, Cooma Cottage, Goat Island, Wambo Homestead, Hadley Park, The Springs split slab well as
fabulous opportunities to unravel the works and see firsthand how they constructed with their knowledge, tools and limited
materials, how resourceful they were especially in the bush and to be able to use the same systems to repair or stabilize so the
technique, materials and quality is not lost.
This joy and passion he has passed on to others by training apprentices and sharing his knowledge with
anyone who asked. He also demonstrated his commitment to craft by taking on the century old Brinsley's
Joinery Works in Toronto Parade Sutherland in the early 2000s where he still uses machinery from the
1860s; preparing and manufacturing traditional windows and doors (French doors, ledge and brace doors
and six‐panel doors)and conventional finishing techniques like shellac and bees‐waxing.
He has a broad range of experience from Georgian colonial to the more recent day laminex and
fibro but he says he has never stopped learning and there is always some tradesman’s trick or
ingenuity to be seen or a project he hasn’t yet come across. Nor has he ever lost the love of that
fresh cut timber and the feeling of the construction site that sparked his passion at the age of 12.

Lifetime Achievement Award
SHARON SULLIVAN
Sharon Sullivan grew up on a farm in the remote northern tablelands of NSW, with a love of the bush and its past
environment, the archaeology of the future.
Her leadership abilities were honed early and as a pioneering woman in the NSW National Parks and Wildlife
Service, she championed Aboriginal people and their connection to their country as well as historic heritage in
the park estate. Sharon paved the way in the 70s and 80s by initiating and implementing an Indigenous voice into
the management and protection of their own heritage. Sharon has a long and continuing interest in working with
Indigenous people to further the conservation of Indigenous heritage places, including initiation of the first
agency supported research by Aboriginal people into sites of significance in eastern Australia.
Sharon fostered the recognition of historical heritage sites at the Australian Heritage Commission. This changed
attitudes and approaches to the conduct of research and the protection, registration and management of
archaeological heritage.
During her illustrious Commonwealth career Sharon represented Australia at international gatherings. At World
Heritage she championed living cultures, not fossilized ones. She facilitated the National Heritage Convention
held at Old Parliament House in 1998, which made an important contribution to our current Commonwealth
heritage management arrangements. She assisted the Schofield Committee which investigated Commonwealthowned
Heritage Properties, played a pivotal role in the establishment of Regional Forest Agreements and
instigated a wide range of community outreach programs for heritage.
Sharon Sullivan is a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, member of the Australian Institute of
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, and Australia ICOMOS. She is the Deputy chair of the Port Arthur
Historic Site authority, Acting Commissioner in the NSW Land and Environment Court and a member of the
Australian Research Council's College of Experts on the Humanities and Creative Arts Panel. She has been
Australian Government Leader of Delegation on the World Heritage Committee and was also previously
Executive Director of the Australian Heritage Commission.
Sharon is internationally respected as an expert on heritage management, she has advised,
lectured and trained extensively on approaches to heritage conservation based in
understanding and respecting the heritage values of places. She is an Adjunct Professor at both
the University of Queensland and University of New England with an Honorary Doctorate from
James Cook University. Sharon is also the author of many publications including a widely used
university textbook on heritage place conservation and management.

Sharon is a Director of Sullivan Blazejowski and Associates, Heritage Consultants working on a
range of cultural heritage issues including the implementation of the China principles, and the
development of a heritage master planning model for China. As well as that Sharon has consulted
for the World Monuments Fund (Cambodia), ICCROM (Africa), the Getty Conservation Institute
(Africa and China) and the former Commonwealth Department of Environment and Heritage and
its various subsequent iterations (China).
In 2004 Sharon was awarded an Australian Order in the Australia Day Honour’s List for services to
local and international cultural heritage conservation and a life membership of ICOMOS
worldwide, a rare honour. In 2005, the Rhys Jones Medal was awarded to Sharon in recognition
of her sustained and significant contribution to archaeology. This is the highest award offered by
the Australian Archaeological Association. More recently, she has contributed as a member of the
Australian Heritage Council, NSW Heritage Council and the Board of the Port Arthur Historic Site
Management Authority.
Sharon is very widely published. With Michael Pearson she wrote the seminal looking After
Heritage Places. These projects go back well over twenty years, beginning with rock art site
management courses (1989‐1990) and later with Sharon's keynote contribution to the
Mediterranean conference (1995), and most recently to her tackling, with Richard Mackay, the
forthcoming comprehensive set of Readings in the Conservation and Management of
Archaeological sites for the Getty Conservation Institute.
Sharon's contributions in management planning at the sites of Dnnhuang and Chengde in China
have been of enormous value, not least in cementing professional and personal relations at those
sites. In Africa too her work with the Getty Conservation Institute on rock art has moved the field
forward. Sharon's work in Mogao has also gained international recognition.

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