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My pop up exhibition about the history of Coburg Primary School playgrounds has been revived in a showing at Coburg Library. It was initially developed as a pop-up…
A series of photographs that I took at Heritage Hill Museum and Historic Garden are on display in the City of Greater Dandenong public art space the Garnar…
The Edgars Creek history project I curated for Ziebell’s Farmhouse Museum and Garden has won an award, and has been transformed from a ‘postal exhibition’ into a real…
I have been working on history project about an old mansion in West Brunswick that I used to live in (during it’s share house era), supported by a…
Showing at the Counihan Gallery in Brunswick as part of the Moreland Summer Show 2021, History and Heritage is the first print work I have made in a…
This exhibition/intervention was the culmination of my Creative Workers in School project, for Regional Arts Victoria, featuring art and commentary by the talented kids from Chewton and Elphinstone…
I did some museum skills workshops with children at Chewton Primary School. Grade 5-6 catalogued and re-housed some items from the school archive – some wonderful 1920s crepe…
A children’s creative project responding to decorative arts such as bedspreads at Buda Historic Home and Garden in Castlemaine, and First Nations possum skin cloaks. Aunty Kerri Douglas,…
A ‘creative response to history’ activity, paper plates were designed by Chewton and Elphinstone Primary Schools students, as part of my Creative Workers in School project for Regional…
I projected some old photographs from the Museums Victoria collection inside my house. Experimenting with my new mini-projector! The kettle pictured as a ghostly visitation on the stove…
A children’s activity responding to historic photographs, as part of my Creative Workers in Schools project, through Regional Arts Victoria, working with children at Chewton and Elphinstone Primary…
I amused myself by setting up an ephemeral miniature installation at Coburg Lake picnic area, for Picnic Day, the first day Melburnians were allowed to meet another household…
I have been doing lots of walks around Coburg Lake Reserve and Edgars Creek parklands, picking up leaves now and then, and making small artworks that trace the…
A ‘creative response to history’ activity, as part of my 2021 Creative Workers in Schools project for Regional Arts Victoria, I ran a poetry writing workshop with Prep-2…
The postal exhibition (aka booklet) Turning Back to Edgar’s Creek has been distributed to households in Thomastown and Lalor, and has won the Keeping Victoria Beautiful award in…