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Parragirls Memory Project
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ARC DECRA Research Project 2016-2019

Parragirls Memory Project is a social history and contemporary art project centered on the significant site of the former Parramatta Female Factory and Girls Industrial school in Western Sydney. Since 2012, our collaboration with the former residents of Parrmatta Girls Home has resulted in the creation of six major art projects and exhibitons on site at Parramatta Girls Home and for public festivals and Aborignal cultural events.The Memory Project explores the experience, history and representation of institutionalised women and children in Australia. It fosters creative opportunities for those with a direct experience of institutional confinement to represent and articulate their own history. https://www.pffpmemory.org.au/


Parragirls: Remagining Parramatta Girls Home through art and memory
edited by Lily Hibberd & Bonney Djuric
NewSouth Books 2019
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Parragirls Past, Present
unlocking memories of institutional 'care'
Immersive 3D 360 film
commissioned for The Big Anxiety: festival of the arts+science+people 2017

Parragirls Past, Present is an immersive experience presenting former residents’ visions of Parramatta Girls Home today. This landmark narrative digital medai project is the first of its kind to screen in UNSW EPICylinder, the world’s highest resolution 360 degree 3D cinema. As an encountner with living memory, this work offers rare insight into the impact and experience of institutional care in contemporary Australia.