Echoes CHM

ECHM 2025 Photo Competition Winners!🎉🎉

A huge thank you to all of the ECHM staff who participated and voted in the 2025 photo competition. It was a tight race this year, with dozens of amazing entries.

Congratulations to our photo competition winners:

- Artefact Features: ‘That’s a Knife’ – Ben Pentz

- People’s Choice: ’80 Mile Beach’ – Evonne Baltrock-Nitzsche

- Creative: ‘Mystic Blue Gorge’ – JJ McDermott

- Flora/Fauna: ‘Thin Lizzy’ – Callan Melvill-Smith

- Landscape: ‘smiling Sky’ – John Marrell

- On the Job: ‘Excavation Debrief’ – Niamh Quinn

Members of the Echoes CHM team were delighted to attend the Australian Archaeological Association and Australasian Institute of Maritime Archaeology joint conference in Walyalup last week, of which ECHM was a proud sponsor!

During the week the ECHM team spoke to students at the Meet the Graduates and Colleagues event and JJ McDermott and Niamh Quinn presented a paper entitled ‘Time to more readily preserve and celebrate cultural heritage: Establishing a Cultural Precinct on Nyamal Country.’

A special thanks to Nyamal Aboriginal Corporation and Barlbinbinya Aboriginal Corporation for their continued support and collaboration and we look forward to seeing you all again next year!

This week Ian Ryan from ECHM will be presenting at UWA's Archaeology Seminar Series!

This week we welcome Ian Ryan from Echoes Cultural Heritage Management to the Archaeology Seminar Series.

Ian will be speaking to his 25 years of experience in archaeological heritage management here in Western Australia.

See you all here at 3pm on Thursday!

UWA Research