From concept to reality: Sam Richards - Moonee Ponds Creek Bridge @WestGateTunnelProject
From concept to reality: Sam Richards - Moonee Ponds Creek Bridge  @WestGateTunnelProject
Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
From concept to reality Sam Richards brought her artwork to life on the West Gate Tunnel Project. 

"This is an artwork talking to connection to country, connection to our land, our waterways and our people and ancestors too." 

Sam Richards is a Wurundjeri artist of the artwork of the perforated steel panels along Moonee Ponds Creek bridge near Footscray Road. 

“It features linework representative of the significance of this waterway to the Wurundjeri people and features Bunjil, the creator deity of the Kulin Nation.” 

It is part of series of artworks across the West Gate Tunnel Project’s paths and open space by First Nations artists.
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From concept to reality: Sam Richards - Moonee Ponds Creek Bridge

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