PETA CLANCY Public Installation at Station Place, Werribee for Wyndham City Council 

June 25, 2025

Peta Clancy has been commissioned by Wyndham City Council to for a public installation at Station Place, Werribee. The majority of featured photographs were taken in the same area on Bunurong/Boon Wurrung Country where the work is displayed.

Dr Peta Clancy is a descendant of the the Yorta Yorta people, her photographic works explore hidden histories of colonisation and events that threatened the survival of her ancestors. Through manipulated photography, Clancy calls attention to the way that the past and present are layered within the landscape. She aims to reconstruct and bring to light histories that have been missed, veiled or denied, re-focusing our perspectives on Indigenous sites of significance.  To produce her works, Clancy prints large-scale images of the landscape and attaches them to a custom-built frame on the same site where the image was first taken. She then slices and re-photographs the image to challenge our focus on denied histories.

Image caption: Installation view of Peta Clancy’s installation at Station Place, Werribee, 2025. Photo by Christo Crocker.