The White Bluff Project

White Bluff is a rocky headland located north of the regional city of Coffs Harbour, on the North Coast of NSW. It is surrounded by development on its landward edge and yet protected by the Solitary Islands Marine Reserve on its littoral and off-shore waters. It sits on the border of local indigenous territories. It is Crown Land - largely unknown and yet typical of a string of isolated coastal ecosystems along Australia's increasingly inhabited eastern seaboard.

While White Bluff may have no recognised national significance, it is exactly this that makes it such a shared Australian experience. The aim of the White Bluff Project was to bring together a group of artists, scientists and Coffs Coast Community members to explore their shared experience of our coastal spaces — exposing concerns about the transformative effects of climate and urbanization while celebrating the beauty, fragility and unique discoveries to be found in local landscapes.

In partnership with Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, The White Bluff Project ran for nearly four years with a key aim being to demonstrate the value of art/science/community collaboration in developing new art forms and approaches to creative practice. The project culminated in an exhibition at the Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery (CHRG) from 30th October 2021 through to 15 January 2022. If you did not make it in person to the exhibition you can take a 3D virtual tour of the gallery with feature works highlighted and explained. This 3D tour is available for a limited time only.

Our website, however, will remain publicly available as testament and archive of the project, its participants, and its outcomes. Visit our Gallery page and our News page for participant profiles and links to stories, sound recordings, interviews and published content from the final exhibition.

Meet The White Bluff Project Collaborators

Learn more about White Bluff

Where is it? Why White Bluff? Why collaborate?

Acknowledgement

The White Bluff Project would like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of this land, the Gumbaynggirr people, and pay respect to their Elders, past and present and future. Thank you, for allowing us to live, create and work on your unceded cultural homeland and on White Bluff.