supported by
Australian Government - Regional Arts Fund
TASMANIA Parks and Wildlife Service
Tasmanian Government
Huon Valley Council
Arts Tasmania
SalonWriting
salon
Water Witch
... inside the Maritime Museum of Tasmania
... meander, yield and flow with the fluid poetic of water ...
Sound of Water - The remains of drawing water-based music ...
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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 .. exploring aspects of our unsettling colonial inheritance
Friday Visit - research in the Drawing Room - ithe writing desk installation remains in my absence
The Visit begins in The Shop in conversation with the contemporary life of Runnymede with tour guides and access to the library
... then moves 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 later to the Bayley's Room with a focus on the families business - whaling.
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 an artist guest 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
Water Witch - before encountering the figurehead of the whaling vessel Waterwitch, you pass through her siren song played live by Duo Antiqua accompanied by drawing and improvised readings from the Liquid Language Library
many thanks
Jim Ward - Manager, National Trust Tasmania
Sara - Conservator, Runnymede Historic Home
Lady Jo - photography
Leonie Oakes - photography
artwork by Ruth Frost
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