Out to the Wreck
A layered mixed-media amalgam exploring the Wreck Beach and my connections to it.
Continue readingMemoryscoping the Bunurong Coast: A project-based PhD speculating on the intimate and complex histories of a personally significant place
A collection of layered place-based amalgams from 2020 that built upon the image/text vignettes I started 2017. These physical scrapbook-like piece encompassing prose reflections, historical fragments, family archival material video and audio.
A layered mixed-media amalgam exploring the Wreck Beach and my connections to it.
Continue readingA layered mixed-media articulation of the ecological footprint of industrailised agriculture in response to a tractor left abandoned in the paddock.
Continue readingAn attempt at creating layered mixed-media articulations of intimate place-based connections and creative inclinations shared across generations.
Continue readingEarly attempts at layered mixed-media articulations of the complex implications that can be read into the marks and features encrypted into the ground.
Continue reading[Scanned copies of layered paper based amalgams, 2020; Rees Quilford] These ‘A Trail in the Ground’ pieces illustrate an early
Continue readingThis work was developed on the unceded lands and waterways of the Boon wurrung and Woi Wurrung language groups of the Kulin Nations. Much of the fieldwork, including visitation, writing and documentation, was undertaken on the lands of the Bunurong/Boonwurrung people.
The Bunurong/Boonwurrung people are the first storytellers of these lands. Their sovereignty was never ceded. This is, and always will be Aboriginal Land.
I respectfully acknowledge the Ancestors and Elders, past, present and emerging.
In terms of my position as a visitor on those lands, I state my lineage and purpose. I am Rees Quilford. I am a fourth-generation settler of Welsh-Irish descent. I am a writer, communications professional and a PhD candidate with RMIT University.
I was born and currently live on Bunurong/Boonwurrung land. I try to tread lightly, understand my place and listen to what it’s telling me.