Celestial Spaces

Celestial Spaces: Photographs of former Chinese gold mining sites in the Snowy Mountains of Australia, by Denise Ferris.
Celestial Spaces is a series of ten large-scale paired photographs or ‘diptychs’. The first photograph in each diptych was taken on the sites where, in the 1860s, several hundred Chinese goldminers lived and worked in Kiandra in the Snowy Mountains. The partner photographs show shards of ceramic bowls, pipes, cups and pots that have been unearthed at Kiandra over two digs by ANU archaeology students and staff.