Summer School: Love, Resistance and Other Survival Strategies

Summer School: Love, Resistance and Other Survival Strategies

It’s getting hotter and harder. Last Summer felt like fire and death. Some talking about leaving. Some can’t imagine ever going away. How do we stay with country as it changes? How do we care for each other when times get tough?What do we do when (as Deborah Bird Rose...
Testing Ground: A Ritual of Recovery

Testing Ground: A Ritual of Recovery

Testing Ground was a ritual of recovery, that made visible the damage to the ‘Ilparpa Claypans’, caused by dumping and invasive weeds. Over the past 12 years I’ve witnessed the escalating deterioration of the ‘Ilparapa Claypans’. Buffel grass chokes Coolibah trees,...
Shadow Work

Shadow Work

Shadow Work is an autoethnographic* cyanotype map of settler impacts and interactions with the ‘Ilparpa Claypans’ – a series of 12 interconnected claypans located on Arrernte land, 13km from the township of Alice Springs. These claypans are experiencing ongoing damage...
Postcards

Postcards

Tender Places builds conversation with, in and through place. I create research artefacts during field work to document, translate and disseminate the research with, to and through place. Postcards are the project’s first physical research arteacts. Created from...