This series of
five photo-etchings concerns cycles of time and our relationship
to place. It is based around a derelict house in my home town
of Huonville, in the Huon River Valley, Tasmania, Australia. Formerly
known as "The White House" and successively a gentleman's
residence and schoolhouse, it is nowadays used as a hayshed. I
have re-peopled it from photographs and tintypes of members of
the family that actually owned the house, with the exception of
the young woman in the final picture, a professional artist's
model. The photographs were in the possession of a celebrated
Huon resident, the late Alison McMullen, who was related to the
family and who lent the photos to me to use (the man in After-Image
was her father). A number of the images in the other 1980s etchings on this site also came from her
collection. The Folio cover is a colour screenprint, the image
taken from the most recent (1873) of the many newspapers used
as lining paper under the wallpapers. Among other private and
public collections, the series is in the collection of the Australian
National Gallery and of Parliament House, both in Canberra. Review articles.
With the exception
of the folio cover, these are all photo-etchings on zinc plates
-- for technical notes see Etchings
Home page.
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The
Residence 1983.
Screenprint, Folio cover 60cm x 49cm
