b'gold standardcollection of ENHM. Senior Designer Ceci Wilkinson says theAwardsjudges,whoawardeditaReseneTotalColour exhibit begins with the fiery formation of the earth, the HadeanInstallation Colour Maestro Award. "Timber has an agenda all period(4.6billionyearsago),beforecontinuingthroughtheits own, and this project pays the material homage with layer Archean, Proterozoic and to the Phanerozoic period (541 millionupon layer presented in a carefully chosen palette of wood stain years ago), when early multicellular lifeforms first began to appear.hues inspired by a key specimen, they said in their comments. Rare and beautiful rock specimens from the ENHM collectionThe inspiration is brilliantly realised in the exhibition to draw record these events and are displayed within the integrated 8.4myour eye into the exhibits. It\'s a rare treat to see timber used so longshowcase.Achildrenspathalongthetimelineprovidescreatively to set the scene."interactive peepholes where younger visitors can catch glimpsesLocated in the heart of Australia, a trip to Eromanga Natural of enormous events such as supercontinental drift, minute earlyHistory Museum is a journey worth taking. Visit www.enhm.com.au multicellular lifeforms and magnified zircon crystals, which areto find out more about the museum, whats on, how to get there Stardust to Supercontinents Timeline used to date archaeological sites. and where you can stay on site. Eromanga Natural History Museum Key specimens were selected to represent different epochs in the development of the earth along with interpretive graphicsdesign Thylacine Design, www.thylacine.com.au If theres one thing visitors to the Eromanga Natural Historyand interesting data points. The layered wood panelling of thebuild Bryan Walsh, Matt Smith, Oscar SendenMuseum (ENHM) cant miss, its Cooper. Cooper is a titanosaurdisplay was inspired by the museums banded tiger iron specimen sauropodthe largest known land-dwelling animal to ever walkfrom the Ord Ranges in Western Australia. The stones striking the Australian continent. After his remains were discovered bypattern consists of alternating layers of golden tiger eye, silver 14-year-old Sandy Mackenzie while mustering on his familysmetallic hematite and red, brown or black jaspilite and is reflected station,theMackenziefamilybegansearchingthepropertyin the banded colours of the layered joinery. Resene Colorwood and discovered a series of titanosaur fossil sites dated to 95-98wood stains gave a distinct but controllable range of colours to million years old, which represented a new genus and speciesthe timber without losing the textural quality of the underlying oftitanosaur.Activearchaeologicalworkisstillconductedplywood grain, explains Ceci.throughout the area and fossils are brought to the ENHM forThe stained ply colours of the built form are derived from processing, research and presentation.the burnt umbers and iron oxide red found in the banded tiger ThylacineDesignworkedcloselywithENHMsGeneralironspecimen.Thecoloursaredescriptorsforthisperiodof Manager Robyn Mackenzie to create Stardust to Supercontinents,the formation of the earth dated 3 billion years ago, when the adeeptimegeologicaldisplaythatsituatesCooperwiththeoceansoftheearthwereironrichandrustyred.Incredibly, our wonderful fabrication team built the display joinery, object mounts and childrens interactive elements and drove a 44-hour opposite, above and right: A banded tiger iron rock specimen inspiredround trip from Canberra to install it on site.the colours and shapes in the decorative timber surround of the StardustThe design team selected a trio of Resene Colorwood wood to Supercontinents Timeline at the Eromanga Natural History Museumstains to create the striking effect: Resene Colorwood Deep Oak, in Queensland. The wood on the front of the exhibit is stained in ReseneReseneColorwoodMerantiandReseneColorwoodWalnut. Colorwood Deep Oak, Resene Colorwood Meranti and Resene ColorwoodCeci says she liked the way these hues accentuated the inherent Walnut to achieve the design teams desired effect. colours of the timber and left the natural woods grain on display. Maintaining an organic textured look was particularly important Resene and the colours chosen mimic genuine timber tones. The form, Resene Colorwood materials and colour palette were inspired by the colour variation Colorwood Resene Meranti of the rock specimens we referenced. Using a stain simplified Walnut ColorwoodDeep Oak the specification and Resene Colorwood produced reliable and accurate control of the finished colour.TheexquisitelycraftedstainedformsofStardustto Supercontinents caught the eye of the Resene Total Colour 46 blackwhitemag.com blackwhitemag.com 47'