Humpty Doom, Hillvale gallery, Brunswick, May 11-29, 2023
HUMPTY DOOM
photographic installation, dimensions variable.
2012-2022
Humpty Doom started with pictures I took as a teenager, growing up in Humpty Doo, a rural district of the so-called “northern territory”. In the following decades I’ve explored the relations between my family and the Larrakia land we live on through photographs of our local surroundings and the three generations living there.
In making this work I think about the problematic nature of the government’s plan to “develop the north” through industry and exploitation, the sixth mass extinction event, and the dubious future of the “N.T.”.
I make this work with love.
Photobook published in 2023 by publisher Bad News Books here.
The Humpty Doom book dummy was selected as a finalist Swedish publisher Libraryman’s Book Award, 2021.
