Strange Shores

2017 - Sydney College of the Arts

Strange Shores is a series of enigmatic seascapes made along the Australian coastline using a 1950s caravan transformed into a pinhole camera. The slow exposures and soft, reversed images create an unsettled view of the familiar landscape.

The work draws on the Australian Gothic, evoking the haunted histories embedded in the Australian landscape and coastline. Reversals, positives and negatives, and the use of photographic chemistry become part of this sense of unease, shifting the coastline between the recognisable and the strange.

The research explored the art of haunting as a way of revisiting the past and considering the ongoing impact of colonisation in a settled Australia. Haunting offered a way to think about what remains present, buried or unresolved within places.

Strange Shores was part of my Master of Fine Arts research and graduating exhibition, Scary Monsters and Super Creeps: Analogue Photography Materialising the Australian Gothic.

Later exhibition: Rogue Pop Up Gallery.