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Jill won a Universities Santander Travel Award to travel to Australia in July 2017 to research an arts and industry project based around the Cornish metal mining diaspora, investigating both the physical ‘aftermath’ mining landscapes, and the transplantation of Cornish culture in these places.
Jill travelled to 2 key sites -The old goldfields of Victoria, centred on Bendigo (twinned with St Just, Cornwall), and ‘Little Cornwall’, South Australia.There are very strong historical and cultural ties between Cornwall and Australia, reflected in the these town- twinnings.
There she met with mining and arts organisations, the University of La Trobe at Bendigo, Victoria, and researched and collected information for future exhibitions, artists residencies and academic research projects in both countries, linked by the narrative of metal-mining.
This experience was used to develop Jill’s artists residencies in mining sites in Anglesey and Cornwall on a global scale.
Photography: Leanne Lloyd.
