This story recounts the day my family and I left to emigrate to Australia and the first couple of years following the move.
The migration story of my Nonno, Michele Scotto, from Monte Di Procida, southern Italy to Melbourne Australia based on the poem 'Be Good Little Migrants' by Uyen Nhu Loewald.
This is the story of my father's country town, the school he attended and the farmland that shaped him. I was inspired by this very 'Australian' place to explore concepts of memory, history and beauty.
The story of the journey William Humphrey and his family took was passed down through my family. Particularly the part of been lost at sea and the men wanting to kill the Albatrosses which was against seafaring lore.
My father left Canton, China in 1937, leaving behind my two brothers & my sister.
My grandmother took me searching for the hermit’s cave the year I turned twelve, and my understanding of Australia, and my place in it, was irreversibly altered by the experience.
Arianna was born with Cerebral Palsy and was told she would never be able to eat, drink or communicate on her own. Now, at the age of three, she has already proved this wrong.
A conversation with New2, one of the faces behind the art that decorates the streets of Melbourne.