Aboriginal Art Walking Tour with Smoking Ceremony

Warrane route: Your Aboriginal guide meets you at the front entrance of the Capella Hotel on Farrer Place. The walk opens here with a Welcome to Country and a traditional smoking ceremony before anyone takes a step.

Warrane route: From the Capella, your guide leads you to Customs House. Inside, you'll see Jagun (Country) by artist Kim Healey and the free Barani / Barrabugu exhibition, telling the story of Aboriginal Sydney from before 1788 to today.

Warrane route. Jessie Street campaigned for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to be counted in the census. That work carried into the 1967 referendum.

Warrane route. Back through the Quay on Gadigal Country, where the ferries carry the names of Aboriginal warriors, Bennelong and Bungaree among them.

Warrane route. The harbour the whole walk sits on, and the older story underneath it.

Warrane route. Seen across the Quay.

Warrane route. Up the steps, on Bennelong Point, named for the Wangal man whose name the ferries also carry. Exterior visit, no entry.

Warrane route. In frame from the Opera House steps and again behind the group photograph at bara.

Warrane route. bara, 2022, by Judy Watson. A 6.4 metre marble shell fish hook honouring the clans of the Eora Nation, in the form Gadigal women fished with for thousands of generations. Group photograph here.

Birra Birra route. Meet on the harbour front. Welcome to Gadigal Country and a smoking ceremony before the walk begins.

Birra Birra route. Gaawaa by Lucy Simpson, a Yuwaalaraay woman and founder of Gaawaa Miyay. Gaawaa means deep water.

Birra Birra route. The Australian, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags flying together in the lobby, and what it means when a corporate precinct chooses to fly all three.

Birra Birra route. Sixteen metres of carved timber tracing the shoreline from the pre-colonial foreshore, through the timber wharves of the 1800s, to the concrete container port. Daramu House means tree house in the local Aboriginal language.

Birra Birra route. Upside-Down Garden by Jumaadi. Eight suspended works in the through-site link on Mercantile Walk, unveiled December 2025.

Birra Birra route. Mermer Waiskeder by the Ghost Net Collective. Eleven eagle rays overhead, each 2.8 metres across, hand-stitched from ghost net over aluminium frames using 6.5 kilometres of fishing line.

Birra Birra route. Resilience by Dalmarri at the Woolworths Metro entrance. Dalmarri is a Supply Nation certified Aboriginal organisation founded by Trevor Eastwood and Jason Ridgeway.

Birra Birra route. Monuments for Fishes by Mikala Dwyer. Five kinetic monuments rising more than eighteen metres above the water, swaying with the harbour. Unveiled July 2026. They honour the coastal fisherwomen who worked this cove, Barangaroo among them.