Shannon Foster

Partner
Bangawarra

Shannon is a D’harawal Saltwater Knowledge Keeper, artist and interdisciplinary creative practitioner with over twenty years of experience in designing education programs and spaces in prominent Sydney learning institutions. Shannon’s doctoral research with the Centre for the Advancement of Indigenous Knowledges at UTS addresses a large gap in site-specific, Sydney based Aboriginal knowledge, as she documents the stories and knowledges of her family - the D’harawal people of the Sydney region. She has expertise in Sydney specific cultural practices, history and ceremony; in ecological and botanical knowledges of Sydney eco-systems; in Indigenous Research Methodologies and Sydney Aboriginal languages. Shannon has recently been recognised for her work through her appointment to the Government Architect NSW Aboriginal Expert Advisory Panel consulting on the 'Designing with Country document' and as a core member of the Connecting with Country Cultural Advisory Panel for the 'Connecting with Country Framework'.