A Cumulative Topography: Materialising the Surface Tension(s) of the Australian Landscape

This studio research project establishes a relationship between photographs of the Australian landscape and the language of spatial practice. Drawing upon the implicit tensions underlying the Australian cultural landscape, I developed the conceptual framework, A Cumulative Topography, wherein the landscape surface, as metaphor and material site, is reconceived as a productive critical interface through which to extract existing representational and socio-cultural tensions. Re-imagined as an aggregate surface the Australian landscape is crafted as a porous interplay of diverse cultural histories—a sometimes turbulent terrain—re-presented through an expanded photographic and site-responsive installation practice, approached as a vehicle for critical cultural redress.