“Cockatoo island is located in Sydney harbour. It has a fascinating history, originally established as a prison accessible only by boat. Its functions were many including a training school, and a home for fallen women, but its longest function was as a centre of shipbuilding, becoming the largest in the Southern Hemisphere (1839 until 1991).

The vast, deserted industrial spaces, the sculptural monumentality of the stilled machinery, the beauty of metal decaying on the rocks…

The whole island speaks of other times and ways of being. As I developed these images, they slowly became much more subjective interpretations, becoming multi layered metaphors for ideas that are of interest to me; the idea of machines being dinosaurs. Do we fathom that our own utilitarian traces, like those of ancient civilisations, might one day be regarded as religious relics.”