Australia
Burleigh Heads, Queensland
Australia
September 2019
I visited my family for a month and I barely took any photographs, at least not analog ones. On one of the last days we went to Burleigh Heads to walk around the headland, watch the surfers and look for whales. The afternoon sun was setting low and hard in the western horizon. I took this with my back to the ocean, looking into the end of the day, knowing soon I’d be flying in that direction, back to Germany.
Gundagai, New South Wales
February 2018
I split the 12 hour drive from Hill End to Melbourne into two days, and stopped pretty much halfway home in the outback town of Gundagai. I arrived at dusk, set up my tent by the river, and walked into town for an eggplant parma and a gin and tonic. After a month of cooking all my own meals, it was rather wonderful.
Koorawatha Hotel, New South Wales
February 2018
Shot on expired film, hence the grain.
Agricultural Show, Sofala
New South Wales, Australia
February 2018
On my last day at the Hill End Artist Residency I drove half an hour to Sofala to visit their annual agricultural show. I won a chocolate hazelnut cake, a rhubarb chutney and a jar of honey for $10 in the cake auction. The shaky handwriting on the labels just about broke my heart.
Melbourne, Australia
August 2017
I have lived on and off in Melbourne for years but I only finally went to the Melbourne Botanical Gardens when Dorothy visited us. It was quite the good surprise.
Hill End Artist Residency, NSW
Australia
February 2018
I spent the month of February living alone in this absolute dream of a worker's cottage built 150 years ago around the time of the gold rush. The whole house and studio were mine to sit, read, make and cook within. It was a magic time for me, listening to the birds eating in the fruit trees, saying hello to the kangaroos on my way to and from the outdoor toilet and going for long walks through the bush at the end of a day in the studio. I worked on cyanotypes on fabric using found native flora, and made ten new abstract collages from photographs.
Hill End Artist Residency, NSW
Australia
February 2018
Unpacking a new studio, making work, getting caught in a summer storm.
Hill End Artist Residency
Australia
February 2018
Turns out, you can look at photographs of a house and miss it as keenly as you miss a parent or friend in another country. This house was my everything for four weeks and looking at the way it glowed gold in the evening and reflected soft blue in the morning makes me sad, homesick, full of love.
Hill End, NSW
Australia
February 2018
One Saturday afternoon whilst gazing out my studio window lost in thought, I noticed smoke in the distance, glowing red where it touched the horizon. For the first time in my life I called the fire brigade, knowing this was peak summer, peak fire season in the bush. Turned out the fire was 18 km away, which is little comfort when you live in a town that's at the end of a single lane road through the bush, an hour's drive from anything. But also comforting, because that's still a long way, long enough to be able to have a plan to get out early. So I hiked up to my favourite look out and watched the smoke for a while, and for the rest of the weekend I constantly monitored the NSW Rural Fire Department's Fires Near Me website. Blackened leaves fell down on the town, but nothing worse reached us, and the sunsets were especially beautiful for a few days.
Hill End Artist Residency, NSW
Australia
February 2018
I can almost smell the rain still when I look at these photographs. The rain came suddenly on a very hot day. The kangaroos in my garden were soaked, and the birds disappeared for a little while.
Hill End, NSW
Australia
February 2018
Hill End was a magical place to walk around, with beautiful dusty light, gum trees stretching over dirt paths and goats and kangaroos weaving in and out of the bush,
Cedar Creek Falls
Tambourine Mountain, Queensland
December 2017
Mum drove Nico and I out to Tambourine so she could have lunch with a friend there. We walked down to the falls on Cedar Creek and had an ice cold swim. It was so crowded that there was nowhere for me to discretely change into my swimsuit, so I swam in my tee shirt and undies like a kid.
Border Ranges National Park, New South Wales
December 2017
On the second last night of the year, Nico and I camped at Sheepstation Creek in the Border Ranges. There was some kind of plague of grasshoppers chirruping loudly at the camp site, in a synchronised racket that crescendoed every fifteen seconds into an earsplitting note. I had to wear ear plugs the whole time.
Broadbeach, Queensland
December 2017
This Christmas, I fell in love with my home state, a place I left 12 years earlier.
Melbourne, Australia
December 2017
I love these goons.
Johanna Beach, Victoria
November 2017
Johanna Beach, Victoria
November 2017
No beach I've ever seen looks more like another planet than Johanna.
Johanna Beach, Victoria
November 2017
A few days after I finished my honours degree, Khaleda, Nico and I set off for a weekend of camping by the beach four hours west of Melbourne. I spent most of the weekend lying in the tent reading, watching native birds, talking and being quiet. This is my favourite beach in the whole world.
Car Wash
Preston, Melbourne
October 2017
I sometimes wonder if the kebabs they sell out of a window here are poison or good.
Share house, Thornbury
October 2017
Nico's share house in Thornbury, home to five good people.