Lead dust from mining silver in Broken Hill, Australia’s first and largest colonial silver mine, and birthplace of international miner, BHP, was windborn in atmospheric currents and detected in icecores in the Antarctic; arriving 20 years before Scott and Amundsen raced to claim the last unterritorialised continent. We got there before we arrived.
Above: Conversation pit for the Ice Views House
Led by the winds, conveyors of the earth, this is a consideration of atmospherics and thresholds. To reflect on the indistinct zone between insides and outsides. An ongoing telling of stories from one air across two continents and an ocean.
Exhibited in POST gallery, Adelaide 2024
and in Undercurrents, Penrith Regional Gallery Sydney
For catalogue essay, SIFT by Naomi Riddle: HERE
The Conversation Pit operates as a site for meeting and talking, but also as an analogue weather reporting station; the draped fabric images are rehung daily to convey the daily weather conditions at the Scott Amundsen Antarctic station, 1000 km away, readable via the installation in the gallery.
