Searching for the Ghosts of Desire

‘This work developed from wandering the grounds, stalking the corridors and reading the texts and just imagining the tales, the ghosts that I hope find their love now if not then.’

An immersive installation by Artist-in-Residence Dr Lisa Anderson, as she searched for the secret and imagined stories of women who were once residents associated with the Convent, gardens, school and laundry. The work uses sound, video and sculptural forms.

About

Dr. Lisa Anderson

Created and exhibited internationally for over 40 years undertaking exploration and scientific residencies working with landscape/urbanscape/topographies through a prism of stories found in folklore and superstition as memories of place.

Residencies included remote locations in the High Arctic and Antarctic and locations such as Paris, London, Ireland and Iceland. Installations for the St Tropez Antipodes, Boston Lights, Mardi Gras 798 in Beijing and the Toronto, Hong Kong and Amsterdam Art Fairs by London Gallery Bicha while locally at Customs House in Sydney and Wollongong and Ballarat City Galleries. As the Rupert Bunny Fellow 2023 for Port Phillip creating the exhibition Beguiling at the Victorian Pride Centre with images using tales of gods and sprites that help explain nature.

Dr Anderson is the 2024 Artist-in-Residence at Abbotsford Convent working with the queer ghosts of memory and the folklore that surrounds them. Anderson’s work is in public and corporate collections internationally.

Accessibility

Industrial School is wheelchair accessible.