This work is an extensive series of photographed assemblage works I have created for Metro Creative in partnership with the Melbourne Royal Botanic Gardens, comprising two large visual stories printed onto 200m of giant hoarding around the new Anzac Station site.

When making this particular section of the work I was thinking about the different types of people who might walk past the site and encounter this work and perhaps what they might add to these stories, like layers of memory.  Using an instinctive process of collection and assemblage, these works are collated and arranged loosely by colour and form. Some of the objects were found (with permission) in the Botanic gardens themselves and some I made from ceramics, unearthed from my own collection or collected from the site itself.

Photography by Matthew Stanton and Bri Hammond