Arthur Boyd’s own floor to ceiling Reception Hall Tapestry at Parliament House in Canberra acts to dissolve the architectural construct of this highly formal ceremonial space and transport occupants beyond the confines of the building to immerse them deep into this place, south eastern Australia. In designing  Bundanon Tapestry our aim was to employ a similar device, rendering the existing wall of the underground gallery as a portal to deep time, plotted as it is layer upon layer in the same iconic Nowra Sandstone strata that stretches from Bundanon to the Blue Mountains and characterises so much of the contemporary city of Sydney; entwined with the many generations of First Peoples who inhabited and sang with this stone for millennia. The geological strata reveal primordial upheavals, shifting shorelines, and evolving ecologies. It makes visible the incomprehensible depth of these relationships, with ancient species of vegetation both found fossilized in the stone and living strong within Shoalhaven bioregions today. The primary detail Bundanon Tapestry occurs at eye level–an anthropocentric perspective–and becomes fainter and more unfocussed as the layering moves higher and further away from the viewer, lost to the Western eye.

‘Heliotope’ is derived from 'helos' (sun) and 'topos' (site); the specificities of place; the interactions between the sun and this place which support the life-forms and natural systems, human systems and cultures unique to south eastern Australia.

Heliotope is an architecture practice led by Jane Caught, former co-founder of Sibling Architecture. Jane established Heliotope in 2021, determined to find a more responsible way of practising architecture in this place. Her research and multi-disciplinary collaborations contribute to the development of lower carbon, climate-adaptive projects; focussing on emerging technologies, construction industry resource streams, local production economies and ecosystems. She is an educator, leading architecture design studios at several universities.
Jane is Living Future accredited; and a member of both the RAIA National Residential Sustainability Advisory Group and the Melbourne Regenerative Design Forum. Contributors from the Heliotope team also include William Bennie, Liwen Lian and Alessia Latina.

Alison van den Berg is an emerging artist from lutruwita\|Tasmania, where she practices from lunawani\|Bruny Island. Her art practice is immersed in the ever-changing landscapes that surround her; examining natural environments from contemporary viewpoints. Van den Berg has held board positions (including president) for Threatened Plants Tasmania (TPT) and regularly participates in repair of landscape.
Van den Berg completed an Associate Diploma of Fine Arts at the University of Tasmania (UTAS) and was admitted to the Executive Dean’s Honour Roll in 2021. She is currently completing her Bachelor of Fine Arts majoring in Painting. Along with painting and drawing, weaving is central to her practice, particularly the tapestry tradition. Van den Berg is a long-time member of the Hand Weavers, Spinners and Dyers Guild of Tasmania.