Waterwitch | Janelle Mendham

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supported by

Australian Government - Regional Arts Fund

TASMANIA Parks and Wildlife Service

Tasmanian Government

Huon Valley Council

Arts Tasmania

SalonWriting

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Waterwitch
from inside women's spaces

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... inside the Maritime Museum of Tasmania .. meander yield and flow with the fluid poetic of water

waterwitch

Before encountering the figurehead of the whaling vessel Waterwitch , you pass through her siren song played live by Duo Antiqua accompanied by a response through drawing.

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The figurehead of the whaling vessel

Waterwitch 1820 - 1896

many thanks

Duo Antiqua- Llewellyn Negrin (recorder) & Anne Marshall (oboe)

Mark Hosking - Operations Manager, Maritime Museum of Tasmania
Camille Reynes - Curator, Maritime Museum of Tasmania
Emily Quintin - Marketing Manager, Maritime Museum of Tasmania

Jane Slade - print Without Sinking: Waterwitch
Chris Brown - photography of in-situ performances

Maritime Museum of Tasmania

Artworks were conceived for the embedded exhibition Reimagining the Ocean

@ Maritime Museum of Tasmania curated by Dr Llewellyn Negrin

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