Exhibited at The Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne
The peninsula of land on which the Abbotsford Convent is located is a palimpsest of walking tracks, both ancient and current. The Walking Project is a contemporary experience of walking this land, and a record of my responses to it. It takes the form of an installation and guided tours of the Convent precinct.
It is ‘...an exploration of the ghosts and voices that haunt ancient paths, of tales that tracks keep and tell.’ (Macfarlane, Robert, The Old Ways, p xi, Hamish Hamilton, Penguin Books, London, England, 2012)
The Map is a site responsive, layered document of my walks in the Convent grounds over the past year.
Dimensions variable
The peninsula of land on which the Abbotsford Convent is located is a palimpsest of walking tracks, both ancient and current. The Walking Project is a contemporary experience of walking this land, and a record of my responses to it. It takes the form of an installation and guided tours of the Convent precinct.
It is ‘...an exploration of the ghosts and voices that haunt ancient paths, of tales that tracks keep and tell.’ (Macfarlane, Robert, The Old Ways, p xi, Hamish Hamilton, Penguin Books, London, England, 2012)
The Map is a site responsive, layered document of my walks in the Convent grounds over the past year.
Dimensions variable
The following images are a component of The Walking Project.
These images are an interpretive amalgam of archival photos of The Convent years 1863 - 1975 and were used on the walking tours to illustrate connections between past and present, and to activate particular sites of past practices, and imprints of former structures.
Archival Images 2015
Graphite and watercolour on paper
Dimensions A4
Exhibited at The Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne
Yarra River through Melbourne's inner suburbs, depicting the location of Abbotsford Convent. 2015
Yarra River. (Surrounding the Convent Precinct) 2015
Ariel perspective Abbotsford Convent Precinct. 1931
Site Plan of Abbotsford Convent. 1878
St Heliers, 1863. The first post colonial house built on the Abbotsford peninsular,
and purchased by the Convent in the late 1800s.
View of Abbotsford Convent Precinct from the otherside of the Yarra River. Date unknown
View of the Industrial School and washing. 1869
Dormitory in Sacred Heart Class. Date unknown