Observation exercise
Pick a road or a track, could be one that you’ve driven a thousand times before. One you’ll likely drive
Continue readingMemoryscoping the Bunurong Coast: A project-based PhD speculating on the intimate and complex histories of a personally significant place
Reflections on the development of my memoryscoping practice for the respectful inhabitation and historical storytelling of the Bunurong Coast.
Pick a road or a track, could be one that you’ve driven a thousand times before. One you’ll likely drive
Continue readingAfter a day spent browsing cluttered filing cabinets and listening to snippets of oral histories in the Wonthaggi Historical Society
Continue readingI have a close personal connection to the local history museum, my grandparents – Arthur and Nell Quilford – were founding members of what has come to be known as the Wonthaggi and District Historical Society
Continue readingA mixed-media personal reading of the characteristics I have identified in Ross Gibson’s memoryscope construct.
Continue readingNotes from my PhD supervision meeting with Adrian Miles, discussing what my intimate historical practice for exploring the Bunurong Coast might look like.
Continue readingTrailing the dog, I jog into the beach side carpark in the early autumn dusk. The place is typical of Bass Coast’s remote beaches, a secluded patch of gravel cut into the scrubby dunes.
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.