PHOTO 2024

Amanda Williams (AU)

The Alpine Moth

Image: Amanda Williams, [Mount Buffalo plateau, Mount Buffalo National Park (#12)], 2020. Courtesy the artist and the Commercial.

Image: Amanda Williams, Mount Buffalo plateau, Mount Buffalo National Park (#12), 2020. Courtesy the artist and the Commercial.

Region

Central

Venues

Royal Botanic Gardens, Anzac Station precinct [i]
Near the intersection of Albert Road and Domain Road, Melbourne
Outdoor work – accessible all hours
Metro Tunnel Creative Program [i]

Accessibility

Wheelchair access

Amanda Williams’ work draws parallels between the history of photography and the natural and built environment, addressing inherent and at times hidden layers of history that inform our understanding of a site. She works with analogue film and outdated materials that often leave a visible trace in the final photographs.

This project is inspired by resting sites of the Bogong moth (aka the Alpine moth) in Victoria’s North East Alpine Region. Due to climate change and urban development along their migration route, moth numbers have been declining drastically. Williams sees the moth’s fate as an allegory of the times we live in.

Commissioned by Photo Australia and the Metro Tunnel Creative Program for PHOTO 2021

On display from 18 February 2021

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Founding Partners
  • Bowness Family Foundation
  • Naomi Milgrom Foundation
Major Government Partners
  • City of Melbourne Arts Grants Program
Major Partners
  • Maddocks

PHOTO Australia respectfully acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands upon which we work and live, and the rich and diverse Indigenous cultures across what is now called Australia. For over 60,000 years, Indigenous arts and culture have thrived on this sacred land, and we honour Elders and cultural leaders past and present. This was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.

01–24 March