not my story to tell
UNRELIABLE MEMORIES & THE WARDELL FAMILY OF CASTLEMAINE These works began, as these things often do, with a fairly ordinary intention: to look back. A search through a family history - names aligned, dates confirmed, photographs held up to the light in the hope they might disclose more than they appear to – suggest a narrative, divine a truth, set the record straight. But the past, as it turns out, is rarely cooperative.
INSTALLATION DAILY at The Mill, 9 Walker Street Castlemaine
Supported by: The Mill Castlemaine, Castlemaine State Festival, State Library of Victoria, Baldessin Press
1. The Mysterious Murmurations of Mary Wardell
2. The Gracious Geocentricity of Gertrude Wardell
3. The Feverish Felicitations of Frank Wardell
4. The Clever Calculations of Clare Wardell
5. The Vicarious Verisimilitude of Vincent Wardell
6. The Judicious Joviality of Joseph Wardell
7. The Tumultuous Turpitude of Terry Wardell
8. The Jaunty Jocularity of Jack Wardell
9. The Gleeful Gyrations of Gerard Wardell
10. The Aboreal Antipelargy of Augustus Wardell