'These Paths We Travel' as part of Carlisle Photo's 'Visualising The Home' group exhibition.
- Submitting institution
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Arts University Bournemouth, the
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- Gouldstone_32051 Paths
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- The Vallum Gallery, University of Cumbria, Brampton Road, Carlisle, CA3 9AY
- Open access status
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- Month of first exhibition
- June
- Year of first exhibition
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- ‘These Paths We Travel’ is a continuing series of images, drawn from practice-based research. Six photographs from this series were chosen for a group exhibition, ‘Visualising The Home’, Carlisle Photo, 2017. The broader exhibition consisted of 100+ works from various artists in a combination of photographs and other visual content. A paper about the work was delivered by Gouldstone, at a conference of the same name that ran alongside the exhibition.
The images explore the ambiguity between representations of Britishness and whiteness in histories of Australian immigration, and their affective encounter in the contemporary migrant experience. Through her process of discovery Gouldstone examines how the materiality of suburban spaces of Melbourne might be understood to have a sense of Britishness or whiteness, and the limits of photographic representation for understanding these lived experiences.
Employing ethnographic and auto-ethnographic methods Gouldstone used interview, conversation, archive material and participant observation to understand how Britishness and whiteness are understood across geographical and emotional migratory spaces. Photographic practices are employed as a responsive, creative and experimental mode of expression and interpretation to traverse the ambiguity that encompasses the physical and virtual experience of Britishness and whiteness in Australia.
One of the outcomes of the practice-led enquiry is an affirmation of Moreton-Robinson’s argument that Australia is in the process of post-colonising; assuming a fixed category or a singular experience of Britishness or whiteness in the Australian context is problematic. The research questions reveal that concepts of whiteness and Britishness influence feelings of belonging for British migrants in Melbourne’s suburbs and Gouldstone’s images explore her suggestion that suburban space, in the Australian context, can be argued as a form of whiteness manifest. Her pictorial insights provide a means of negotiating the subjective and emotional narratives that problematise records of British colonialism and British migrations, in Australia.
http://siangouldstone.co.uk/thesepathswetravel
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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