Dear Agnes
Ephemeral Sculpture
2023

I was invited by Hobsons Bay council in Melbourne’s western suburbs to create a work that responded to the complex history of the Truganina Explosives Reserve.

The work I created, as part of the broader ‘Dear Agnes’ project, consists of a series of 9 signs that tell the story of the Truganina Explosive Reserve, and its surrounds.

The 9 signs explore the evolving human interruptions of this site throughout its post colonial history. The work collapses that history into our current moment in order to excavate the human intervention of this space, and highlight its chaotic evolution.

The signs are clearly hand made and hand painted. The use of the human hand in creating the signs exposes the veil that authority uses in claiming agency over our environment.