Portfolio > 'Spirits of the Showgrounds' Back to Back Gallery, Newcastle, Australia

Exploring the complex lives lived by the old Australian showmen particularly that linking to Tahlia's marital family history.
It highlights the tension between their travelling lifestyles which is deep rooted in their Romani heritage and those of the towns people who lived safely by social and white colonist cultural 'norms.'
Showmen are welcomed when they bring the shows to town with the promise of bright lights and good times but are shunned as outcasts as soon as they leave the safety of those grounds. Bound to homes on wheels and the open roads they move from one show to the next.

Newcastle Art school Diploma of Ceramics Graduation show