Category: Sketch #7: Memoryscoping practice reflections

Reflections on the development of my memoryscoping practice for the respectful inhabitation and historical storytelling of the Bunurong Coast.

Observation exercise

Posted on October 27, 2019August 23, 2024 by Rees Quilford

Pick a road or a track, could be one that you’ve driven a thousand times before. One you’ll likely drive

The rationale for Otherwise Unrecounted

Posted on August 14, 2019August 28, 2024 by Rees Quilford

After a day spent browsing cluttered filing cabinets and listening to snippets of oral histories in the Wonthaggi Historical Society

Making it up as we go

Posted on April 17, 2018September 2, 2024 by Rees Quilford

I 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

A personal reading of the memoryscope

Posted on April 13, 2018September 1, 2024 by Rees Quilford

A mixed-media personal reading of the characteristics I have identified in Ross Gibson’s memoryscope construct.

An intimate historical practice

Posted on October 17, 2017August 23, 2024 by Rees Quilford

Notes from my PhD supervision meeting with Adrian Miles, discussing what my intimate historical practice for exploring the Bunurong Coast might look like.

Carparks and frivolous placemaking?

Posted on August 27, 2017August 23, 2024 by Rees Quilford

Trailing 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.