Certificate III in Art Craft Practice

On and off I spent around seven year living in Kalgoorile, WA. I Most of the time I was a stay at home mum, I had two children while we lived there, my husband worked in the mines and I suffered severe post-natal depression. 

In 2001 and 2002 attended night school at Kalgoorlie College/ Curtin University of Technology undertaking a Certificate III in Craft Practices, I didn't see it as a serious educational experience or career development - it was therapy.

The images below are from an Artist Residency I undertook at KCGM's (Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mine), Mt Charlotte Mine in 2001. The mining operations were closing down and the staff being re-distributed to other operations, I spent a week photographing many aspects of the miners working and social lives, on an off the mine site.

​This was my first experience with documentary photography, these photographs were taken of Ilford XP2 film, processed in a standard C41 lab, printed by hand onto 8 x 10 inch Fotospeed, Multigrade RC paper. The original printers were scanned in 2019.