supported by
Australian Government - Regional Arts Fund
TASMANIA Parks and Wildlife Service
Tasmanian Government
Huon Valley Council
Arts Tasmania
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The Visit
Runnymede Historic Home
The Visit
working insitu as a guest at Runnymede on Fridays ( from April '24 to January '25)
... reading, writing, researching, drawing, photographing, and in conversation - drinking tea, and sharing lunch and sitting in the garden ..
in the Drawing Room
.. . my Visit begins in conversation with the contemporary life of Runnymede in The Shop ... later I move to the luxurious Drawing Room - an extension built for Anna Maria and Bishop Nixon, the second family to make this their home (1850- 1863) ... and finally I move to the Bayley's Room that harbours family and whaling stories of the third and last family to call this villa home (1863 - 1963).
The Visit - come walk with us
a collaboration with artist Morag Porteous @ the former (so-called) Boys Orphan School
collage for Morag's animation picturing the former so-called Orphan Schools in St Johns Park
St John’s Park is located on the site of the former so-called Orphan Schools, built in 1831 and operating into the 1870s. Runnymede is a gracious Regency villa built for Robert and Dorothea Pitcairn c.1836-1840.
Morag's studio is located in her forebears room at the so-called Boys Orphan School and I am an artist guest at Runnymede.
We have been listening to these buildings, their stories, and each other.
Connected by water, by whaling, by walking, reflecting on the interwoven histories of these two sites allowing submerged aspects of the colonial past to surface.
Join us as we walk, listen and talk along the creek, from the Schools to Runnymede and back.
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The Visit - whale song
Invasive specifies @ the exhibition opening - whale song echoing down the corrtidor, puncturing the Mask of Civility
You hear whale song as you encounter and uncover the stories held within the whaling rooms at Runnymede. In this in-situ performative response, I draw whale song in ritual lament.
performance interrupted and postponed
many thanks
Jim Ward - Manager, National Trust Tasmania
Sara Anderson - Assistant Curator (Volunteer)
Lady Jo - photography
Leonie Oakes - photography
project and artworks were conceived for the embedded exhibition
Puncturing the Mask of Civility
hosted by the National Trust of Tasmania @ Runnymede Historic Home
curated by Dr Llewellyn Negrin