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As artists and designers, we respect and celebrate Country and work to create projects that are deeply connected to place through time.  We pay our respect to elders past, present and emerging and to traditional custodians and knowledge holders of the land on which we work and travel through. 

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Chris Fox

Studio Chris Fox
Founding Director
Artist + Designer

Chris Fox is an artist and academic with 30 years' experience in the built environment, navigating the complex constraints of the public domain. His practice-led research operates at the intersection of architecture, public art and infrastructure, integrating computational design, material systems and Country-centred collaboration.

 

In addition to his Studio practice, Chris is a Senior Lecturer in Art Processes and Architecture at the University of Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning. In 2026 he is undertaking the University's Special Studies Program in Darwin and Arnhem Land, working with Mimal Land Management and Charles Darwin University on Country-centred research.


He has been the recipient of awards including the AIA Urban Design Award (Rozelle Parklands, 2025), the Australian Steel Institute National Steel Excellence Award (Rozelle Interchange, 2024), Good Design Australia Gold Accolade (Interchange Pavilion, 2021) and the National Trust Heritage Award for the Most Outstanding Project of the Year (Interloop, 2018). Rozelle Interchange and Iron Cove Link were acquired into the Powerhouse Museum digital collection in 2025.

Biography

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Tina Salama, Dr

Studio Chris Fox
Director + Art Strategy

Tina Salama is a medical doctor

specialising in the field of psychiatry. She is also co-director of Studio Chris Fox, with a background training in Architecture and a Master’s in Fine Arts.

Tina is passionate about the impact of the built environment on human health. In particular, the ways  in which art and place making contribute to urban identity and cultivate connections between individuals, communities and environments; weaving narratives of our unique and collective past, present and futures.

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Sarah Anstee

Studio Chris Fox
Computational Designer + BID Coordinator

Sarah studied at the University of Sydney graduating with an architectural Honours and Masters degree maintaining a deep interest in art. They’ve been motivated towards interdisciplinary explorations of art and design through various mediums. Sarah‘s skills include multi-scalar spatial sensibilities, technical design, planning & documentation.

In thinking about environments, artistic and spatial potential, Sarah is highly motivated by artistic processes, innovative design and creating space for diverse interests.

Studio Chris Fox project engaging with Country, connecting art, landscape, and cultural narratives through place-based design
Design process at Studio Chris Fox, using computational methods to develop public art and architectural projects.
About The Studio

Studio Chris Fox was founded by artist and academic Chris Fox with the aim of transforming the built environment, bridging the disciplines of art, architecture and engineering. The studio operates as a vehicle for practice-led architectural research, developed in partnership with the University of Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning, Charles Darwin University and First Nations organisations including Mimal Land Management. Chris has over 30 years' experience in the built environment, navigating the complex constraints of the public domain to design and deliver civic-scale public works that are technically rigorous, culturally responsible and publicly legible.

 

The studio's research agenda combines computational design workflows, material and fabrication research, and Country-centred collaboration with First Nations partners. We transform places with sculptural form at civic scale, embedding meaningful stories of place, people and Country across time.

Barunga Festival 2026 — Spear Throwing Competition | Mimal Land Management
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Barunga Festival 2026 — Spear Throwing Competition | Mimal Land Management

Mimal Land Management organised and sponsored the epic spear throwing competition at Barunga Festival 2026. 85 competitors across three categories — Junior, Opens and Elders — with $500 prize money per category, $1500 total. Junior winner — Curran Jr Opens winner — Sammy Elders winner — Frank Congratulations to all competitors! @mimallandmanagement5492
Rozelle Interchange — (2023) | Studio Chris Fox
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Rozelle Interchange — (2023) | Studio Chris Fox

Rozelle Interchange is a public artwork commissioned by Transport for NSW through the John Holland/CPB WestConnex delivery consortium, Sydney, 2023. The work transforms three monolithic concrete ventilation stacks through an interweaving structural steel form — a technically complex public artwork delivered within an Australian infrastructure context. The form is derived from mappings of the historical, current, and envisioned future ecologies of the Rozelle and Iron Cove area — patterns of steel that extend living systems as bridge forms above pedestrians and cyclists, and transform this infrastructure into a potential habitat for urban biodiversity. Biophilic green-wall modules and modulated zinc panelling integrate the towers into the surrounding Rozelle parklands. The project was five years in the making. A computational workflow — developed with Bollinger+Grohmann, bim.GROUP and fabricator TSS Engineering — connected digital modelling directly to fabrication, ensuring every component was deployed exactly as designed. "The steel becomes a sort of line drawing between these elements... how do we change this large infrastructure into an artwork, into something that is looking like a ruinous form, or something that has been taken over by nature." Rozelle Interchange, Sydney, 2023. Commissioned by Transport for NSW through John Holland/CPB Contractors Joint Venture, WestConnex. Awards: 2025 Australian Institute of Architects Urban Design Award. 2025 Australian Steel Institute National Steel Excellence Award. Digital Archive Acquired by the Powerhouse Museum, 2025. Studio Chris Fox Project Team: Chris Fox, Tommaso Pagani, Simon Giang, Srujan Vichare, Yuxiao Wang, Justin van Ryneveld, Gabriele Ulacco. Engineered by Bollinger+Grohmann.
Convergence — Build (2011) | Studio Chris Fox
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Convergence — Build (2011) | Studio Chris Fox

Convergence is a site-specific sculpture installed at the Global Switch Data Centre, Paris, 2011. Produced between Sydney, London and Paris over two years, the work uses 370 metres of steel to trace the nervous system and arterial logic of the building itself. From the lobby through to the atrium, the sculpture converges above the visitor, coming to ground among three quotations embedded into a termination point for the cluster of steel spines flowing overhead. Developing out of the building fabric, Convergence is the physical representation of the systems of the data centre — its complexity condensed and impelled throughout the lobby and atrium as a dynamic spatial experience. Convergence, Global Switch Data Centre, Paris, 2011.
Drift — Build (2013) | Studio Chris Fox
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Drift — Build (2013) | Studio Chris Fox

Drift was installed in 2013 within the Prime Minister's Office, Sydney. 8,850 pieces of end-grain Victorian Ash pull from the ground plane, rising gradually from the parquetry floor. The form references bathymetric maps — underwater landscape charts of the ocean floor that shaped Sydney. The blocks gather momentum as they peak and barrel over, rejoining the ground plane in a fragmented expression of the city and its expansion through, and at times despite, its own topography. Drift, Prime Minister's Office, Bligh Street, Sydney 2013.

First Nations Collaborators

  • Jacob Nash

  • Michael Mossman

  • Shay Tobin

  • Mimal Land Management Aboriginal Corporation

  • Gujaga Foundation

  • Gamay Rangers, La Perouse

Landscape

  • Yerrabingin (AKIN team — Barangaroo Harbour Park)

Strategy and Place 

  • City People

Research

  • The University of Sydney, School of Architecture, Design and Planning.

    • Studio Chris Fox is the practice-led research vehicle through which Chris Fox develops Non-Traditional Research Outputs (NTROs) at civic scale within the University of Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning. Chris is a recipient of the Rothwell Family Fellowship for Caring for Sea Country (2024–2027).

  • Charles Darwin University, Darwin

Delivery

  • Shop1

Engineering

  • Bollinger+Grohmann

Collaborators
 
The studio team thrives in meaningful collaborations and co-design, generating unique cultural placemaking outcomes with a diverse range of creatives, stakeholders and practitioners. Below our current collaborators and partners:

Studio Chris Fox creating large-scale public artworks through fabrication and structural design processes.

Material Engagement

Our projects integrate material-led research and development, using reclaimed and heritage materials.

Cultural Collaboration

We work in long, protocol-led collaborations with First Nations partners — including Mimal Land Management, Gujaga Foundation, Gamay Rangers, Yerrabingin and Jacob Nash — and with cultural, government and industry stakeholders across multi-year civic projects.

Computational Workflow

We develop bespoke computational design and DfMA workflows — parametric geometry, structural analysis integration and digital-to-fabrication pipelines — for civic-scale steel, timber and lighting works. Peer-reviewed at IASS 2023 and Springer (2024).

Site Understanding

Every project starts with geological, historical and cultural analysis, hearing stories and walking the site.

Process

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Jacob Nash

Hunt Quietly
Founding Director
Artist + Designer

Jacob’s ancestral land on his Mothers side is in the Daly River. His work crosses over between Theatre, Film, TV, Fine Art, Public Art and Curation. He uses all these experiences to create iconic images that talk about the stories, people and country from a First Nations perspective.
 
Nash’s work includes numerous Awarded production credits and he founded his own studio practice, Hunt Quietly. Jacob is currently a board member at Belvoir Street Theatre. He also holds the position of Creative Artist in Residence at the Sydney Festival. 

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Gabriele Ulacco

Shop 1 Projects
Project Management,
Delivery and
Documentation

Shop 1 Projects is a bespoke consultancy focused on detailed design, technical resolution and delivery of public art projects. Working closely with artists, fabricators, curators, architects and clients, Gabriele draws on experience in the architecture and construction industries to help realise complex and intricate works, often in the context of large scale infrastructure, commercial and public domain projects.

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