Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) / A personal experience of migration provides the content for this exegesis research and exhibition titled A Long Road Home. Narratives of identity, displacement and loss, common to the migrant experience are translated as concept and inspiration for this research. Exploring an attachment to my cultural past highlights a disrupted sense of place, which is examined within the context of personal experience. Movement as a condition of migration is a developed theme in this thesis, which is described through a shared sense of place between the Northern and Southern hemispheres, Scotland and Australia. The exhibition A Long Road Home is developed from studio-based research and journeys into past and present landscapes over a period of three and a half years. Accompanying this exegesis is an exhibition of four components: Painting and drawing, a book of self-published poems and memories, after before white rabbits, 2009 [appendix i]. A self-published book of documentary photography of Glasgow’s East End, 2007, the dead end of culture, 2009, [appendix ii]. This exegesis and exhibition component employs mnemonic notations to explore memory as [re] remembering to conceptually underpin this thesis and also to prompt an emotive response. As an abstract concept, memories encompass an itinerant history that is teased from beneath the surface of the skin to extend the narrative of personal experience. after before white rabbits, a series of memories and recollections, reinterpret the past to inform the present, suggesting mindscape as an alternate landscape. A series of mnemonics invite the reader to participate on a journey that is in a continuous state of flux and transformation that moves between one horizon and another.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/280653 |
| Date | January 2009 |
| Creators | Murland, Annemarie |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | Copyright 2009 Annemarie Murland |
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