Winning national competition scheme for a permanent memorial for victims and survivors of institutional child sexual abuse.

The Memorial was one of the recommendations of a Royal Commission in 2017. The scheme consists of a series of catenary arches made of cast glass, with a meandering path encircling a meadow of perennial grasses and wildflowers. Rather than an object-monument, the Memorial is designed as a landscape to move through as well as a composition to behold from afar. It is sited next to the National Museum of Australia on Lake Burley Griffin, at the centre of Canberra. It is designed as a durable structure, to remain in perpetuity. Thematically, the design seeks to hold in balance an acknowledgement of strength and vitality on the one hand, and recognition of trauma and loss on the other. The individual pieces of cast glass carry immense loads yet together create forms of exceptional grace and lightness, representing both fragility and great resilience.