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
Durational - socially engaged project
In-situ @ Runnymede each Friday from April '24 to January '25
Reading, writing, researching, drawing, photographing, drinking tea, sharing lunch ..
Friday Visit - research in the Drawing Room - the writing desk installation remains in my absence
My Visit begins in The Shop in conversation with the contemporary life of Runnymede with tour guides and access to the library;
... 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
Experiential artwork
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
I'm a guest working in the gracious Regency villa Runnymede built on the edge of the Derwent River in 1836. Morag's studio is upstream in her forebears bedroom at the former Boys Orphan School (operating from 1831 to 1870).
We are in conversation with our respective buildings and their stories. We walk the creek that connects each other's work place. We reflect upon their interwoven histories, asking questions, sharing discoveries, allowing submerged aspects of our colonial past to surface. We invite others to join us .
The Visit - whale song
installation - performative drawing of 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