ANAT SPECTRA LIVE / Melbourne, 2022
ANAT Board Member Megan Kelleher
Welcome to Country
Ear On Arm (Stelarc)
Wurundjeri Elder Perry Wandin
ANAT SPECTRA Volunteers
Body Crisis demonstration - Cody Lavery
In April 2022, NWH worked with ANAT (Australian Network for Art and Technology) CEO Melissa DeLaney to document the SPECTRA Live event in Melbourne. Beginning with a Welcome To Country and smoking ceremony by Wurundjeri Elder Perry Wandin, this encompassed a series of curated seminars, workshops, live performances, and an opening night held at Science Gallery Melbourne. The assignment extended to incorporate collaborative forms of portraiture, these being undertaken with ANAT board member Megan Kelleher, and legendary performance artist Stelarc.
Right: NWH with ANAT CEO Melissa DeLaney
NT LIVED EXPERIENCE NETWORK / Darwin, 2022
Leah Joy Chongwee
Charles Nasir
Kelli Sobieralski
Salamanda Endemann
Rocket Bretherton
Lauren Keys
Noelene Armstrong
Jeremy Downes
Chris Kuhl
Throughout the dry season of 2022, NWH worked with Noelene Armstrong, a foundational member of The NT Lived Experience Network, on The Stories of Recovery and Healing Project. This involved photographing and interviewing several individual, Darwin-based, network members; working with each to make visible, through words and photos, their journey of recovery and healing. The Network later developed an artwork from these materials, receiving The Judges Award at the 26th Annual Human Rights Art Awards & Exhibition in Darwin.
Right: NWH with foundational Network member, Noelene Armstrong
Mission to Seafarers / Melbourne, 2019
The Mission To Seafarers
Norla Dome
The Mission Chapel
The Flying Angel Clubroom
Seafarers
Docked Ships
Encountering People, Places and Things was a photography exhibition resulting from a collaboration with Professor Uma Kothari from The University of Manchester. This collaboration centred on Melbourne’s Mission To Seafarers, and the ethnographic research that transpired through Uma’s fellowship with The University of Melbourne. It involved photographic documentation of the Mission, and surrounding locations, including the Melbourne Docks, and digitisation of analogue photographs held in The Mission’s archive. The exhibition joined these historical and contemporary photographic narratives of people, places & things associated with the Mission to Seafarers.
Encountering People, Places and Things exhibited at The Mission’s Norla Dome from June 21-July 5, 2019
The Exchange at Knowledge Market / Melbourne, 2018-2017
Home Truths was the title of a participatory portrait project developed for The Exchange at Knowledge Market in 2017. As a then-RMIT postgraduate research student operating within the field of visual ethnography, NWH was assigned to deliver a portrait workshop and facilitate conversations with residents and workers of Melbourne's Victoria Harbour precinct. Through these means, participants were invited to reflect on what "home" meant to them. The project resulted in an exhibition that brought together portraits and personal accounts of belonging, using photography as a means of exploring community identity within the rapidly evolving urban landscape of Docklands. These materials also featured in the publication The Exchange at Knowledge Market: An Urban Living Lab (Melbourne Books, 2019), which combines some of these photographic works and participant narratives with documentation of The Exchange’s broader program of community engagement.
