Books, screen, art and environment of lutruwita-Tasmania
A few years ago I was asked to write some plays concerning women who had been incarcerated at one of Van Diemen Land’s places of convict confinement – the Ross Female Factory. Between 1848 and 1854 the Factory had been developed for use with convict women, as a workhouse, staging post for accommodation between assignments …
An essay on Oliné Keese’s The Broad Arrow, Robert S. Close’s Eliza Callahan and Rachel Leary’s Bridget Crack, reflecting on poetic language in Tasmanian writing and the sensory and emotional languages we use to communicate with and about the world.
In the background of a photo of Julie Gough’s installation Ebb Tide (The Whispering Sands), 1998, over Lady Jane Franklin’s right shoulder, I can just make out my family home (Gough, 2018, p. 148). The house occupies a slight promontory, the land jutting into Eaglehawk Bay just enough to offer a view over the Neck. …
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What’s going on with coin trees, and why has one appeared right here in lutruwita-Tasmania? And why do I only see them every six years?