Bour-deet

Bour-deet’ (cumbungi, bulrush or Typha) honours Wurundjeri women and their work caring for Wurundjeri Biik (Country). Bour-deet is an important plant for Wurundjeri women having provided food and fibre for millennia. ​The artists, Aunty Kim and Chris Joy, were inspired by riparian plants that act as bio-filtrators, cleaning toxins from our waterways. The sculpture honours a small waterway flowing from the industrial estate, and in the creek-bed grows Bour-deet (Typha) and Phragmites (common reed) which provide rich habitat to local fauna. Swathes of Lomandra planted below the sculpture, will provide food and shelter to local animals and providing tactile opportunity with another important fibre (and food) plant. ​

Title: Bour-deet

Location: Poyner Reserve, Lilydale

Client: Shire of Yarra Ranges