Play your way to happiness is a radio documentary commissioned by ABC RN’s The History Listen, and made in collaboration with historian Robyn Annear, broadcast on 30 September 2022. It was the Depression in Australia. People dreamt of a paradise, an escape from Nowheresville. And they found it, gathering on the beaches of coastal cities …
I created two audio pieces to accompany a touring US exhibition of photography by Walker Evans. Both pieces accompany the iconic photo, Alabama Cotton Tenant Farmer Wife, 1946 and were made as part of a SALT Documentary Institute course in 2021. Here I am. Allie Mae Burroughs. Allie Mae Burroughs was a cotton tenant farmer …
The Scholar’s Hut is a radio documentary commissioned by ABC Radio National’s The History Listen and broadcast in November 2020. Thomas Shadrach James was a teacher at Maloga and Cummeragunja Aboriginal missions, on Yorta Yorta country in New South Wales. In the day, he taught kids in the schoolhouse. At night, he ran an activist …
Oscillations is a seven-part audio series that reaches into the Powerhouse collection and unearth stories about the vibrations, fluctuations, and movements woven through our world – and beyond it, published in November 2022. John Jacobs and I traced the ingenuity behind the pedestrian button and its development through the activism of blind and deaf communities …
Inner West Icons is an indie podcast made by me about the local, grassroots history and community stories of inner west Sydney, first published in May 2022. Each 25 minute episode uses archive, oral history, multiple interviews, music and sound to tell the story of an iconic thing or place. It’s immersive and playful storytelling. …
Object: stories of design and craft is a podcast by the Australian Design Centre. Season 1 is a finalist in the 2022 Australian Podcast Awards, and profiles master Australian craftspeople working in ceramics, jewellery, textiles and metal. Season 2 is all about ceramics, from production pottery to learning and teaching ceramics, museum collections and personal …