Bundanon

Elizabeth Day is a visual artist whose work involves a wide variety of processes and means. It is usually based in specific sites that in recent years relate to Australian colonial history. She has been engaged in two collaborative projects that look to colonial migration, in particular that of the prison and its ongoing violent impact on indigenous culture. In the case of the Parramatta Female Factory Memory Project work, she is involved with a group of women who were in recent decades incarcerated. The group is attempting to reclaim the important early Australian women’s site as a place of remembrance for the institutional violence that has occurred there. The theme of narratives unspoken and covered over through shame persists in the Longford Project.

Day was in residence for the Longford Project (with Anna Gibbs, Julie Gough and Dr Noelene Lucas). Whilst in residency at Bundanon, the group worked on making video and other works for sculptural installation at a series of planned exhibitions in Australia and overseas.