Design unveiled for the National Memorial for Victims and Survivors of Institutional Child Sexual Abuse

The Canberra National Memorials Committee has approved the selected design for the National Memorial for Victims and Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse allowing construction to commence later this year.

The successful design created by Jessica Spresser and Peter Besley is titled ‘Transparency and Truth’ and features pathways framed by a series of glass archways that signify strength, fragility and great resilience in recognition of people with lived experience of institutional child sexual abuse and will be surrounded by a field of wildflowers.

A nine-person jury made up of people with lived experience and design industry experts, chaired by the Hon Peter McClellan AM QC, former Chair of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, was appointed to select the memorial’s design.

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For more details about the National Memorial, please see our Project Update here.