The Village

Material donated by artist Georgia Goud. The Village was part of the Autumn 2022 Fuse Festival. 

Artist: Georgia Goud

Sound recordings and editing: Mia Spiteri

Artist Statement

Gardening is a quiet but important art form. It shapes the look, feel and atmosphere of our streets, our childhoods, our lives. Gardens are the products of determined visions: of sweat, of patience, of entwined cultural influences. 

The Village is a photography and oral history installation. Recorded reminiscences offer glimpses into the creative processes and social history behind both some remarkable older gardens of Reservoir, and the suburb itself. Contemporary photographs present a view of suburban gardens informed by these memories and the artist’s own imaginings of past times.

Listen to Mrs Simmons of Charlton Crescent, to Vincenza and her son Albert of Wilson Boulevard or to Enrico of Hughes Parade, and survey their gardens and neighbourhoods for traces of the suburb they remember, the Reservoir of the 1960s and 70s – The Village.

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