BWAE field trip organised by Australian National University Environment Studio. This 8 week program was scheduled to include 2 field trips to Giggamy Creek, Eden to engage with First Nations and experts for the “Bundian Way” songline that travels from Eden on the South Coast up through the Deua into the Snowy Mountains. This program was moved online due to COVID-19 lockdowns and we were encouraged to make art in response to the environment within a 5km radius of our lockdown location.

My work responds to colonisation around Mount Gillamatong, Braidwood, my home town and the crown land that backs onto my family property. I was deeply inspired by an Indigenous speaker during the program who reflected on the Snowy Hydro Tunnel in the Snowy Mountains which cut through the rock, a sacred mountain for his people. I was also heavily influenced by Underland, a book by Robert Macfarlane that explores , and The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland, a Book by Nan Shepherd - Both of which I had read within 6 months of making these works.

My series features original photographs and poetry in a 8 part series.

This program was run by the Environment Studio of the Australian National University, ACT.