Tasmania Residency

Photo by Georgia Quinn.

Photo by Georgia Quinn.

We took the ferry over to Bruny Island and camped down in the south for a few nights. I was originally meant to do my residency at a place on Bruny Island but it didn't work out. I was glad that I got the chance to travel there and explore a little bit though. It's a quiet and very atmospheric place. It felt funny travelling to an island off an island off an island...Being on the ferry was quite exciting as I pretended to myself that I was a character in Agatha Christie's story 'And then there were none', travelling to Soldier Island off the coast of Devon (to be murdered or be the murderer - who knows...) We drove down to Cloudy Bay when we first got there and almost got blown away by very strong winds. The summer weather suddenly became freezing and we quickly rugged up (before going to photograph a dead seal that we found washed up on the beach). The sky and surroundings were grey for a little while but I found that as the sun came out the water was revealed to be incredibly clear and the surroundings were built up of a detailed palette of different shades of blue.