WEBB is a full spectrum infrared video work that reveals locations on the Central Coast and Hawkesbury that are affiliated with or named after James Webb.
Well known as one of the first European settling land owning pioneers of the Central Coast, Webb is lesser known for his atrocities committed such as firing upon the local Indigenous population and procreating without consent with many young Aboriginal women here in the area.
Similar to Richard Mosse' video work The Enclave, infrared camera technology that registers invisible light is utilised to make visible the unseeable.
This work attempts to draw attention to the true history of the places in which we now live and work and begs to challenge that perhaps our society in this present day and age may need to re-assess the basis of ethos on which such stature of people should be revered.
This work was closely created with the guidance of Gomeroi Elder Uncle Kevin Gavi Duncan as part of the larger exhibition Upside Down Man.
