Unsettling Queenstown

3 August - 8 September 2024

Architecture for Recovering Country

Unsettling Queenstown participates in the questioning and reimagining of Australia’s colonial inheritance at the end of the second Elizabethan era. This is done through the lens of a place: Queenstown. A place both specific and typical, there are Queenstowns all over the world, reflecting the global reach of British colonialism and the impact of its pattern of relations to land, nature, and people.

Taking Queenstown as both lens and metaphor, the exhibition condenses around concrete sites, histories and communities to explore decolonisation in architecture. Material from two real Queenstowns are drawn upon to construct the exhibition’s fictional version: a copper mining town in Lutruwita/Tasmania; and Queenstown in Kaurna Yarta /Adelaide, South Australia.

The elements of the exhibition form a loose assemblage, yielding affects, meanings, and resonances through their unfolding interaction with each other and with visitors. The exhibition is both an ‘opera aperta’ and an opening to a conversation, one that has been there for generations, but is only just beginning.

Image credit Tom Roe.

Julian Worrall, UTAS - Head of Architecture & Design

Julian Worrall is Professor and Head of the School of Architecture and Design at the University of Tasmania. His work spans scholarly research and teaching, critical writing and curatorial activity, and design practice. His career has been animated by a multi-faceted inquiry into ‘alternative modernities’ in architecture and urbanism, notably including a deep engagement with Japan.

Julian has contributed to major institutions and exhibitions of architectural culture internationally, including at La Biennale (Venice); MoMA (New York); V&A Museum (London); MAK (Vienna); Strelka (Moscow); Shibaura House (Tokyo); SCAF (Sydney); and Festa (Christchurch).

Anthony Coupe LFRAIA, Director Mulloway Studio

A founding director of Mulloway Studio, Anthony’s interest lies in the intersection between cultural narratives and architectural expression. His practice encompasses a range of typologies including urban design, architecture and exhibitions where the design process is underpinned by story-telling and social responsibility.

Many Mulloway projects have been recognised for their contribution to cultural heritage, urban design and architecture, including the Harts Mill projects and the Nº1 Pump Station – recognised at national and international levels. Anthony has given papers at international conferences and exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 2014. He is a former National Vice President of Australia ICOMOS, former President of the South Australian chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects, and is undertaking a PhD by practice.

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Emily Paech, Landscape architect T.C.L.

After being awarded masters of architecture, Emily specialised in cultural heritage and interpretation. She has extensive experience designing public realm interventions that reveal site-specific histories, provoke conversation and inspire interaction. Recently pivoting into landscape architectural practice, working with TCL's Adelaide studio Emily is deep-diving into the new challenge.

She relishes every opportunity to collaborate meaningfully with kindness and respect, seeking underlying narratives of the place, and teasing out unexpected and new experiences; at the same time delivering outcomes that are pragmatic, accessible and appropriate. Living and working on unceded land she believes it is critical to invest time and energy into learning about, and engaging with, place and Country.

Ali Gumillya Baker, Associate Professor Indigenous, Flinders University | Unbound Collective

Ali Gumillya Baker is a Mirning person whose family are from the West Coast of South Australia, she is an Associate Professor at Flinders University and a multidisciplinary artist who is a member of the Unbound Collective a group of First Nations artist academics. She is a both a renowned South Australian artist and a highly regarded academic in the cultural studies related to First Nations peoples.

Ali has a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours), University of South Australia, 1997, Master of Arts (Screen Studies), Flinders University, 2002, and a PhD (Cultural Studies, Creative Arts), College of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University 2018.

Dr Sarah Rhodes, Photographic Artist

Sarah Rhodes is a photographic artist using a post-documentary practice to explore ways in which the external environment shapes the inner world. Living and working on Lutruwita | Tasmania, her focus is on the indivisibility of person and place.

Sarah won the Women’s Art Prize Tasmania 2020 and the New York Photo Award (Fine Art) 2011. She received her PhD at the University of Tasmania in 2023.

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