2012
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Canberra and Other Ideas
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  Canberra and Other Ideas at Hinterland Galerie, Vienna. 2017.
​Watercolour, oil, found material, embroidered panels on paper. 3mx25cm.
Image courtesy Hinterland Galerie.

           Canberra and Other Ideas: Scroll I: Australindopak Archive


Canberra and Other Ideas is the first scroll in the Australindopak Archive. It chronicles a year in which I returned to Australia from Pakistan in 2012. With a sense of being between cultures, the scroll became the place in which I expressed senses of alienation in the city where I was born and grew up, but where I now felt a stranger. Drawn to Lake Burley Griffin where I walked daily, imagery in the scroll came as I pondered the lost vision of the Burley Griffins, and people I encountered on the shores and in the city who like me were struggling in different ways with belonging, and whose stories came into the scroll.

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