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Installed more than 150 paste ups of my little ladies in current and former maternal health centres in the City of Yarra – historic photos of early maternal…
I am developing some installations for the City of Yarra, having fun with historical research, and playing with historic photographs of the campaigners, nurses and mothers who established…
Walking in Gone Gardens Playing around with cyanotypes based on the history of local gardens. Photo in jar, Young gardeners with their teacher Cyril Isaac in the garden,…
My installation Requiem was featured on the ABC 7.30 report last night, to violin’s playing, as part of the Coming Home exhibition at Bundoora Homestead: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-21/coming-home-to-bundoora/5910796
Here is an installation shot of my artwork Requiem at Bundoora Homestead Arts Centre in 2017, as part of their exhibition Coming Home, about the history of the…
My ephemeral installation in the gardens at Heritage Hill Museum and Historic Gardens has come down. These were tiny paste up children taken from historic photographs from Dandenong…
I have begun my Artists Residency in the lovely studio at Heritage Hill in Dandenong. I am researching and experimenting at this stage, spending time in the two…
I put together this booklet of drawing and colouring activities, based on historic photos of Coburg Primary School and the local area, in 2010. The historic photographs are …
Text reads Cricket Moustache, 1980s walrus revival style David Boon’s moustache (1984-1995) is considered one of the best moustaches in Australian sporting history. Text reads Rowing Moustache, 1912 Originally…
This is from a series of artworks based on shadows in historic photographs. I started out drawing shadows, but later I printed out downloaded historic photos and painted…
Turn Turn Turn was an ephemeral artwork created in collaboration with textile artist Mary Zbierski-West for the 2007 Moreland Sculpture Show. Mary and I won the ephemeral sculpture…
Discovery, magic lantern slides is an artwork about the way that Australia was perceived by European explorers, and artists accompanying them. The format for the artwork was inspired…
How I got interested in shadows I visit a lot of museums as part of my job, many of them hold photographs and artefacts relating to late nineteenth…