The works in this series explore recent queer history in Australia and the UK by reimagining scenes sourced from a range of archives. The focus includes investigation transcripts from suspected homosexuality cases in the 1950s, as well as newspaper articles detailing the brutal beatings and murders of gay men during a wave of "gay bashings" in Sydney from the 1980s through the early 2000s.

Life-size sets meticulously recreate moments from this history, both factual and imagined, and are then captured through photography.

In the late 1950s, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation was alerted to a letter written by an Australian diplomat stationed somewhere in Europe. In it, he described the open temptations he encountered, public displays of queerness and coded forms of solicitation that stood in stark contrast to the repression he had known in his rural Queensland hometown. These observations, laced with personal intrigue, became part of an investigation into his suspected homosexuality.


Such temptations may well have included the early forms of illicit advertising that would become more widespread in the following decades. From the 1960s to the late 1990s, Tart Cards, small, often handwritten or printed cards advertising sex work, could be found scattered throughout London’s phone booths. While most promoted heterosexual services, homosexual offerings, though rarer, were discreetly circulated in neighbourhoods like Soho. These cards represented both a lifeline and a risk for queer men at the time.

Tart Cards were officially outlawed in the UK in 2001.

Ross Warren, a newsreader for a regional television station in Wollongong, disappeared in July 1989. He was last seen driving along Oxford Street in Sydney. Later, his friends found his keys near the cliffs at Marks Park, a well-known gay cruising spot.

Despite ongoing reports of violence and similar disappearances in the area at the time, police wrongfully concluded within four days that Warren had accidentally fallen into the sea.

In the latter half of the 20th century, gay men were often referred by doctors to undergo various forms of aversion therapy. The devices used were typically makeshift or adapted from other machines by the psychologists administering the treatment.
When it eventually became clear that such therapy had no scientific or therapeutic merit, most of the equipment was destroyed or disassembled. Today, little documentation remains on how this practice was carried out in either Australia or the UK.