In an effort to recreate romantic images of home these trees were planted by John Batman in 1821 soon after arriving in Tasmania; it was the back entrance drive to the “Kingston” property in Conara.

One cannot ignore their dominance in this beautiful, highly contested landscape. Their stories hold close how we fit in and all its secrets.

This series of people-less, contrived landscapes, investigates darkness against the light of heritage, cultural supplanting, history and inheritance. The ever-present landscape at the heart of Tasmania includes introduced plantings that thrive across the Island’s brutal and beautiful extremes echoing displacement, new territories of self and land, evoking suggestions of a past elsewhere.