BP Australia Stretch RAP Artwork 2018-2020
(extended to end of 2022 due to Covid-19)
(extended to end of 2022 due to Covid-19)
Taungwurrung artist Mick Harding’s ancestor spirit is the wedge tailed eagle, known as Bundjil. Bundjil is the creator spirit of the Kulin nation. The Kulin nation is made up of five Aboriginal language groups including Taungwurrung, Woiwurrung, Boonwurrung, Djadjawurrung and Wathuwurrung from Victoria, Australia. The collective territory of the Taungwurrung Nation extends around Port Phillip and Western Port, up into the Great Dividing Range and the Loddon and Goulburn River valleys.
In 2018, Mick carved a coffee table to display in the reception area of BP’s head office at Docklands. The table features Bundjil and some of the creatures he created that feature in the Stretch RAP - a fish, goanna, turtle and platypus.
You can watch a small snippet of Mick doing some of the artwork on the coffee table on our YouTube channel here
This beautiful, unique coffee table welcomes BP’s employees and visitors to BP Australia's head office in Melbourne, and helps them to appreciate the story of coming together and the importance of working towards reconciliation.
Artwork by Ngarga Warendj,
Document - BP commissioned another Aboriginal business from Meanjin (Brisbane) Gliimbaa