Bamstone has included the Clontarf Academy in its entry to this year’s Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show.
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The annual event, which attracts a crowd of 100,000 over five days, will this year take a piece of Indigenous culture etched with the help of teenagers from the south-west.
The entry has been etched into bluestone using the humadic drills.
The design and story for the piece was delivered by Indigenous elder Rob Lowe.
Teens have been etching the design into the stone for three weeks.
Clontarf Academy director Mick Riddle said being included in the Bamstone entry had been a unique experience.
“This was an incredible opportunity for the boys to firstly immerse themselves within the story and art of their culture and then to re-create this in stone,” he said.
“The symbols and stories will be forever embedded within the boys and, importantly, for all to see engraved within the bluestone.”
Bamstone managing director Michael Steel said the project was significant for all parties.
“It was a privilege to partner with Rob and the boys to engrave the history.”