Anne Ferran
Lost to worlds 2008
### Lost to worlds 2008

Lost to worlds includes over a decade's worth of photographic work. The project was undertaken in Tasmanian at the remnants of two female convict prisons sites, known as female factories. The work conjures with Australia's shameful colonial past and is part of an international trend in art practice that is described as the "archival turn." One female factory was located in Hobart, the other was situated in the centre of Tasmanian on the border of the small town of Ross; all that remains of the latter prison today are one building, piles of dirt and a mess of stones. The images themselves are dominated by the landscape, barely giving the viewer any other perspectives, only occasionally offering a sight of the horizon or sky. The thirty images in the series are digitally printed (120 cm x 120 cm)Sutton gallery 2015,exhibitioninfo, Anne ferran, [lost to worlds](http://www.suttongallery.com.au/exhibitions/exhibitioninfo.php?id=66), Fitzroy VIC AUSTRALIA onto sheets of aluminium and set up so that when viewers move around the gallery observing the photographs, the reflections from the aluminium give the images an element of blurred motion. Ferran uses the large empty field to find elegance through the stillness in this series of visually confronting images, the series is symbolic of a fragmented past.


How does the project relate to Australia's shameful colonial past?