Mapping Memory

I've been silent not because I had nothing to say, but because I've been busy, preparing for my exhibition Mapping Memory which opened at the State Library of Western Australia on April 8th.



This pressed tin was photographed in an old building at Gwalia, now a ghost town but a thriving community when my father started school there in 1920. It is very typical of the patterned tin found in early twentieth century goldfields homes, sometimes in combination with whitewashed hessian walls.

A column of this pressed tin is included in the exhibition didactic panel design. I will have a lot more to say about the exhibition in the next few days, when I have had time to catch my breath after eight frantically busy months.