The Giants of Mandurah is a large-scale and free-to-view outdoor sculptural trail of large-scale whimsical wooden Giants. Situated in Mandurah, Western Australia’s largest regional city outside the Perth Metro area, is set against a backdrop of magnificent beaches and an estuary twice the size of Sydney Harbour. The Traditional Owners of the Mandurah region are the Bindjareb people of the Noongar Nation, who named the locality Mandjoogoordap, which translates as ‘meeting place of the heart’.
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Both an artist and environmental activist, Dambo’s artistic practice celebrates the diversity, beauty and importance of protecting the natural world. Handmade using recycled and locally sourced materials, his works are a vehicle for highlighting the stories and culture of the communities in which they are placed.
Dambo intentionally designed the Giants of Mandurah as a game of self-discovery that encourages stewardship and protection of the Peel region’s natural environment. The artistic narrative and environmental story that sits alongside the sculpture is inextricably intertwined with the stories of the Bindjareb people.
The larger-than-life hunt for Dambo’s Giants begins at the Mandurah Visitor Centre, where clues of the whereabouts of the Giants are available. Visitors then need to locate each Giant, collecting a special symbol at each site along the way. Together, when the symbols are entered into the special codebreaker at the Mandurah Visitor Centre, the symbols reveal the location of the final Secret Giant.
