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23/01/12 0 comment/s post a comment
Sojourn in Esperance Bay
Tessa Zettel & Karl Khoe (Makeshift)A.J. Stewart's Chemist, Museum Park Period Village, Dempster Street, EsperancePlease join us for the opening of Tessa Zettel & Karl Khoe's Sojourn in EspĂ©rance Bay, a work in progress installation arising from their recent residency in Esperance. Informed by local photographic archives, Indigenous food histories and a French naturalist lost ashore some 200 ...Read more ►
16/11/11 0 comment/s post a comment
Through the looking glass
Had a most fruitful visit from Esperance's own unofficial digital archivist Neville Mulgat this week, who recently found himself in possession of a cache of incredible glass negatives - hundreds and hundreds of them, neatly stacked in their original boxes. They've come from the Daw family and are on their way to the Museum, most having been taken in and around Esperance by the son, Len Daw, not ...Read more ►
15/11/11 0 comment/s post a comment
Esperance Mechanical Restoration Group
Today we took a trip out to the Aladdin's cave sheds of the Esperance Mechanical Restoration Group, in anticipation of their Collectors Fair this coming Sunday. For 20-odd years the Boys have been quietly putting a lot of love and sweat into the machinery and equipment used in these parts when things were still crafted by hand and made to last. Frank, the current president, gave us a tour taking ...Read more ►
12/11/11 0 comment/s post a comment
Open Studio & Senior's Expo!
Too much fun in one day. First up was the Senior's Expo - a rather unexpectedly frenetic opportunity to chat to almost every local association and micro-producer in town, against a stadium backdrop of pumping Zumba (above) and The Old Spice girls.On hand to discuss their particular passions were LEAF (Local Environmental Action Forum), the Esperance Bird Observers' Group, our friends at the ...Read more ►
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11/11/11 0 comment/s post a comment
kitchen studio by night
The temporary studio looks pretty rad after dark. Halfway to becoming a community kitchen when we were here last; it's since been put on hold by a swathe of bureaucratic building requirements, and so the whitewash, lino and industrial sink remain as if holding their breath. As a recreated historic image archive and native edibles field office/tearoom, there is a sense of displacement that is ...Read more ►
10/11/11 0 comment/s post a comment
Nulsen Community Progress Association meeting
On Tuesday evening we were very pleased to attend a meeting of the Nulsen Community Progress Association. We were especially interested in hearing from the Esperance Community Garden Sub Committee, as the community garden here could be doing a lot of amazing things that no-one else in town is, and of course it already does, but on rather a small scale due to very limited capacity / resources and ...Read more ►
04/11/11 0 comment/s post a comment
4474. 'On the shifting unstable sands we stand'
Stereoscopic postcard in Patrick Taylor Cottage, Albany WA. Caption reads: 4474 "On the shifting unstable sands we stand".The first order of business on arriving in Esperance has been to meet with our new (over-qualified) assistant, Dewi (David) Hyde, an accomplished local photographer who will be helping out with all aspects of the project over the next five weeks. Today we took a trip out to ...Read more ►
03/11/11 0 comment/s post a comment
Esperance Part II: Sojourn in Albany
Last week we made the hike to WA again for Part II of our IASKA Spaced residency. This time we travelled via Albany on the invitation of the local MIX Artists group, who put us up at the Vancouver Arts Centre for 3 days and made sure we were well fed and looked after (special thanks to the lovely Sheryl Stephens). Of particular delight were the Felbers' mind-boggling Miniature World exhibit at ...Read more ►
19/04/11 0 comment/s post a comment
An arboretum day.
'A marvellous day for picnicking in an arboretum', you might have said today in Esperance. Yes indeed, and as official tag-alongs at the Esperance Wildflower Society's monthly field trip to Helm's Arboretum, that's exactly what we did. In between tea and sandwiches though, we also identified several species not yet listed as present in the area (or rather, watched as the ridiculously ...Read more ►
04/04/11 0 comment/s post a comment
The work of historic Goldfields photographer J. J. Dwyer
A key reference in the construction of the photographic images is the work of historic Goldfieldsphotographer J. J. Dwyer whose subjects often included families or groups gathered around the tablein the dusty surrounds of a front porch. In some of Dvvyer's pictures, certain individuals appear ghostlyby moving over the long exposure while still objects remain clear.Read more ►
29/03/11 0 comment/s post a comment
Testing the waters at Windabout Lake.
The main outcome of the project will be photographic and/or video documentation of an eventstaged in the water's edge of one of Esperance's many salt lakes (Pink Lake, Woody Lake, WindaboutLake, Lake Warden etc.). This event consists of a shared meal based around edible native plants ofthe area, which have been gathered and prepared beforehand with members of the community in anexperimental ...Read more ►
02/03/11 0 comment/s post a comment
Community Garden
Yesterday afternoon, being Sunday, we rode our bikes out past the town centre and over the train tracks to the flatter, red-dirt suburban streets of Nulsen, where the Esperance Community Garden were having their weekly get together. On the Pink Lake Road side we met Sonny Graham doing some weeding with his hoe. Sonny is a senior Ngadju man we'd already tried contacting, who very kindly took the ...Read more ►
21/02/10 0 comment/s post a comment
spaced landing
A little over a week ago we arrived in Esperance, WA, where we'll be spending quite a lot of time over the next couple of months as part of the IASKA SPACED program. We travelled from Sydney by a long train (and a short bus) with overnight stops in Adelaide and Kalgoorlie, passing through the varying landscapes of greater Sydney, the Adelaide hills, the Nullarbor plain and the Goldfields.Here in ...Read more ►