A geography of belonging, 2026, mixed media installation

Each piece in this installation carries the memory of a particular place — places where I have lived and places I have visited.  The work meditates on rituals of collecting and gathering: the nostalgia of collected objects, the arranging of small things to eat, the particular warmth of being expected. Sharing food as ceremony, as care, as the ordinary made generous. The platters and prints are gathered not as museum objects but as lived ones — things that held something, passed between hands, accumulated the invisible residue of conversation. Arranged above and around the viewer, the works resist a single sightline. To take them in is to move, to look up, to turn — much as one does in a home that is not yet familiar, reading the surfaces for clues about who lives here and what they value. The printed works echo the shapes and patterns of the platters: a shorthand of hospitality. Together they ask: what does it mean to come from several places and reflect on memories of those places and people who fit those spaces? To set different tables, for different people, in different lights? The installation holds these versions of welcome simultaneously — not as nostalgia, but as a layered present tense. The table is always, somewhere, being set.

This artwork was developed for the 2026 Tully Arts and Cultural Precinct exhibition “Tradition, Ritual Community” to mark 100 years of the Tully Masonic Centre.

It comprises 10 framed limited edition/mono prints each with a complementary ‘tea’ tray

Valley of Storms; 3 colour mono print;  Top of the Range, 3 colour mono print;  Evans Street, mono print hand colored with ink;  Rivers of my life – the Tully, Murray and Corduroy, etching on archival paper;  Cadagi Street, etching on archival paper;  Braid, mono print on archival paper;  Ritual;  Inner Eye, mono print on fabric with hand embroidery;  My block;  etching; Inskip Street; mono print with ink;  Community, mono print on archival paper and fabric