Tag: wreck beach

Trails in the Ground (installation & essay)

Posted on October 27, 2023September 1, 2024 by Rees Quilford

Articulating the idiosyncrasies and agency of the entanglement of tracks that are encrypted on every aspect of the Bunurong Coast,

Scorched earth

Posted on September 26, 2022July 31, 2024 by Rees Quilford

Speculative Polaroid of a wildlife trail in the Wreck Beach dunes (38°39’39.4″S 145°34’54.9″E) and audio of listening to the fire, the ocean, insects and frogsong at a nearby bush campsite.

An environment being consumed by nothingness

Posted on September 26, 2022July 31, 2024 by Rees Quilford

A speculative Polaroid of the Wreck Beach bay (38°39’35.1″S 145°34’51.2″E) combined with audio of heavy rain.

Natural flows and breached boundaries

Posted on August 1, 2022August 2, 2024 by Rees Quilford

A speculative Polaroid combined with audio of walking through water at Wreck Beach.

The Middens of Wreck Beach

Posted on July 3, 2022August 1, 2024 by Rees Quilford

I have vivid memories of the Bunurong/Boonwurrung midden sites at Wreck Beach from when I was a kid in (the mid-1980s). At that time, two different walking paths ran from the carpark through the scrub down to the beach.

Spanning cultural disjunctures

Posted on June 28, 2022August 3, 2024 by Rees Quilford

A speculative image/prose speculation of navigating cultural disjunctures on the Bunurong Coast.

Out to the Wreck

Posted on July 3, 2020September 2, 2024 by Rees Quilford

A layered mixed-media amalgam exploring the Wreck Beach and my connections to it.

Collecting Samphire with JQ

Posted on December 27, 2019September 2, 2024 by Rees Quilford

Samphire is bush tucker, a native succulent also known as sea asparagus, sea beans or swamp grass. It grows on the waterway verges across southern Australia and can be found at any number of places around these parts.

Splendid behaviour or passive cowardice?

Posted on February 4, 2019September 1, 2024 by Rees Quilford

News reports offered conflicting accounts of the conduct of The Artisan’s crew, the officers account reported by The Age suggested

Out of the Remembered Past

Posted on December 21, 2017September 2, 2024 by Rees Quilford

Perched atop the dunes, I watched the light of a waxing crescent moon dance on dark waters.

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.

The Artisan Wreck

Posted on June 21, 2017September 2, 2024 by Rees Quilford

This interactive historical map narrative tells the story of the 1901 wreck of the Artisan – a three-masted 1,155 ton wooden barque – at Wreck Beach.