Judith Crispin

Preliminary visual works for a new illustrated verse novel entitled “The Dingo’s Noctuary”, due for release in late 2019. This book includes maps, plant pressings, poems, prose, photographs, drawings and lumen prints. I am grateful for poetry mentoring from Judith Beveridge and Bob Adamson, and for gentle nurturing and guidance from Warlpiri law ladies Agnes, […]Read Post ›

The Secret Language of Trees Nature studies, some of which will form the basis of a chapbook of images and poems. I take photographs of trees because it helps me to write poetry. Trees teach me to see. They bring me into the vital and immediate present in a way that culture cannot. These images […]Read Post ›

Kurdiji 1.0  is an app created by Warlpiri elders in collaboration with a small group of artists. It is designed to increase resilience in vulnerable Indigenous and non-Indigenous people, and to prevent suicides.  This project has its roots in a decade long friendship I have developed with Warlpiri people in the Tanami desert. My role on […]Read Post ›

The Julfa Cemetery Digital Repatriation Project was initiated and developed by myself and Dione McAlary at Manning Clark House in Canberra. After the first year and a half we took the project to the Australian Catholic University and brought Harold Short and Drew Baker in to work with us. After our major exhibition in Rome, […]Read Post ›

A decade of friendship with the Warlpiri community of Lajamanu in the Northern Tanami desert, has yielded literally thousands of photographs and a book. Scroll down for images from The Lumen Seed.  I am deeply indebted to my Warlpiri friends for accepting me into their community, introducing me to hunting and ceremony, taking me to […]Read Post ›

Märchen (Faerie Stories) Scanned negatives & pages, graphite, indian ink and blood. Pigment prints on Japanese Gampi paper. Exhibited Pingyao International Photography Festival, September 2014  

Ness Scans of 35mm negs on silver rag. Archival pigment prints. Nearly Birds Portraits of artists. Scanned medium format and 35mm negatives. Archival pigment prints on Museo silk rage paper. Exhibited as part of a collaboration with Paul Hetherington (poet) and Victoria Royds (sculptor), Belconnen Arts Centre, January 2013, Photonet Gallery, Melbourne, May 2013 St. […]Read Post ›