Visall Photography
Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery
The Self Reconciliation Project Exhibition
27 April - 11 July, 2026.
Through ceramics and storytelling the exhibition uses the narrative of a settler descendant (me) to see and understand the injustices of settler history in Australia. The exhibition is not the telling of an Aboriginal story, but a re-examination of my family history. As one of the first settler families to arrive in Western Australia's wheat belt, we were given free land while the First Nations people of the area were being driven out. It is about the notion of ‘self reconciliation’ to stop, to turn and to seek truth.
‘To listen, to hear, to feel and to understand.’
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The exhibition presents work inspired by the research residencies undertaken at the Fremantle Art Centre (2022) and Central Craft (2023), and the collaboration with composer and sound artist MJ from Those Who Ride With Giants.
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Collaboration MJ, Those Who Ride With Giants (2025)
AIR, Central Craft (2023)
AIR, Fremantle Art Centre (2022)​​​
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Collaboration
Composer and sound artist MJ, Those Who Ride With Giants, and Avi Amesbury. Image: Ivana Girard Photographer
MJ, the Australian composer and sound artist behind Those Who Ride With Giants, and I have collaborated on the final component of The Self Reconciliation Project. I spent two weeks at MJ's studio in Western Australia in February 2025, followed by a second visit in September.
Storytelling has become a focus of the project over the course of its development, and I've been exploring the use of different media to tell the story. This experimental collaboration involved combining my writing, poetry and research with music, ceramic elements and landscape sounds to create a spoken-word soundscape production.
​Full play list: Portfolio Collaboration
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Collaboration MJ, Those Who Ride With Giants (2025)
AIR, Central Craft (2023)
AIR, Fremantle Art Centre (2022)​​​
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The collaboration is supported by the
Regional Arts Development Fund (RADF).
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Inheritance and Innovation Exhibition
28 June to 27 August, 2027.
​Inheritance and Innovation is co-curated by Luke Li Chao and Zhang Jinjing and is presented in association with the 52nd Congress and General Assembly of the International Academy of Ceramics (IAC). The exhibition explores the dialogue between tradition and innovation in ceramics and considers its cultural, economic and technological relevance in the modern era.
My work for the exhibition draws on a series of pieces from the upcoming exhibition at the Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery. It explores our heritage and inherited culture through landscape.
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The 52nd Congress of the International Academy of Ceramics (IAC)
Ceramics: Inheritance and Innovation,
27 June to 2 July 2026, Jingdezhen, China.
Information: IAC website.
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NEWS
December 2024
Collaboration
MJ, Those Who Ride With Giants
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MJ, Australian composer and sound artist, and I are collaborating on the final component of The Self Reconciliation Project.
Over the course of the project storytelling has become a focus and I’ve been exploring the use of different media to tell the story.
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​My ambition for the collaboration is for it to be experimental.
November 2023
The Self Reconciliation Project (May and June 2023)
As artist-in-residence at Central Craft in Mparntwe (Alice Springs) I continued to explore the notion of self reconciliation.
The project investigated connection to 'place' through the Australian landscape (an external lens) which aims to bring together these two lines of perspectives - family history and connection to 'place'.
July 2025