Here We Are

Here We Are was an experiment in mapping and storytelling, using mail art and cyanotypes to memorialise people’s experience of social distancing under COVID19.

Here We Are documented the places where people spent the COVID19 lockdown, and what they learned during the time of less travel and staying at home through cyanotype printmaking and storytelling workshops. The project explored how material practice can provide a framework for conversation about personal experience of collective crisis and act as an antedote to an increased focus in online engagement with culture. Here We Are was presented as in person workshops in partnership with Darwin Community Arts, and through mail art and zoom workshops targeting people living in Victoria during the Stage 4 Lockdown.

This project was supported through the Australia Council’s Create Fund.

More Projects

School of a Spinning Planet

School of a Spinning Planet is a four part exploration of place based community philosophy anchored in the seasonal equinoxes and solstices.

Alice Springs Women’s Shelter

Stitch in Time & 100 Voices

Whilst working with Alice Springs Women’s Shelter, I developed the Stitch in Time project. Over two years we collected and shared over 100 women’s stories of resistance to domestic violence through the creation of 10 story quilts.

Lock the Gate

Adapting the Arts

In 2018 I worked with Lock the Gate as a producer on  ‘Adapting the Arts’, a project building the capacity of artists in mining affected communities through developmental commissions and workshops.