Memoryscoping the Bunurong Coast

Me with my battered OneStep600 Polaroid camera photographing the falling tide at Wreck Beach.

This website houses a curated selection of the creative components of my project-based PhD 'Memoryscoping the Bunurong Coast: Speculating on the Intimate and Complex Histories of a Personally Significant Place'. The work encompasses creative amalgamations that combine prose, photography, multimedia, video, audio and archival fragments. It includes quickfire experiments and speculative and carefully composed suites of mixed-media amalgams.

The creative practice methodology developed through my research – my memoryscoping – was developed and refined using an iterative and speculative approach of ‘sketching’, and encompasses more than 80 individual works. The first three sketches encompass relatively unpolished quickfire experiments undertaken to help develop my emergent creative practice. They include:

Although still iterative, speculative and experimental, Sketches #4 through to #7 utilise a more considered and cohesive approach. They include:

To get a feel for the nature of the memoryscoping practice methodology that was developed, please view, interact with and refer to the creative pieces. I hope an interwoven and incidental engagement with the works will somewhat reflects the iterative, complex and interlinked nature of my connection to and storytelling of the Bunurong Coast and its histories. Jumbled, messy, and repeated engagement with the works also echoes my making and writing process throughout my research journey.

A selection of annotated Polaroid photographs compiled during the development of this project-based PhD.