Filming for LAMP

Before going to LAMP we filmed some pilot footage to take to experiment with. It was great fun and some super people from Margaret River helped… Richard Todd was really fab shooting great stuff at an amazing rate. Jaqui Morris was our GM for the day and loved doing it and Diana Shores took stills. While visiting Wonnerup House (an early settler’s house) we were shown a woman’s workbox from the mid nineteenth century. It was labelled as belonging to Georgiana Molloy and had been donated via her descendants. I can’t wait to find out more about it …
Jennifer

My Visit to London

While I was in London last month I went to Kew Herbarium. Alex George (the Australian liaison officer) showed me some specimens from their archive - the actual dried plants collected by Georgiana!! She sent them by ship to the collector James Mangles around 1840. Standing there in that old building in London, being allowed to touch a specimen that she had first touched in Western Australia, so long ago – was an amazing moment! Even better, it was a wattle – the WA emblem and in flower right now all around my house. I felt as if I’d finally got really close to her.

Also saw a wedding dress in one of the museums, date was 1830 – embroidered with flowers. Not hers, but gave us a good idea of the style etc. Wouldn’t it be fantastic to find her wedding dress – or anything she wore!
Bernice Barry

Georgiana - The big project begins

We are spending time undertaking in-depth research. Our aim to to provide a comprehensive resource for enjoyment and study. To this aim we are seeking partners in the film industry, publishing and education.

Some of these areas will be;
Georgiana Molloy's brave and passionate life story
The history of settlement in Western Australia
The indigenous flora of South-Western WA
The history of botany
The social, political and philosophical issues documented during interaction between European settlers and the indigenous people of Western Australia
19th Century music, literature, philosophy and religion in England, Scotland and Australia

What's great about this project is that not all of the diary entries have been transcribed yet, and so her story is still unfolding.

The suggestion to put up this blog came from our mentors as LAMP (Laboratory of Advanced Media Production). This was 1 of 8 projects to be "hothoused" at the very first LAMP in Australia. Here we recieved advanced training and were able to build a small experimental compontent of the future project. It was held at beautiful Encounter Bay in South Australia, though most of the time we were bleary eyed from long hours of workshopping. (Jennifer, Producer)