Semaphore Score: Free Tour

This summer and autumm, Semaphore Score, a new exhibition from inaugural Creative Fellow Margaret Woodward is open to the public.

During the Fellowship, Margaret studied historic logs and texts from the collection. Semaphore Score is inspired by one important artefact found during her research: The 1868 Tasman’s Peninsula – Semaphore Code Dictionary.

Through Semaphore Score, Margaret asks, “how might this 19th-century militaristic language be dismantled and recomposed to create messages of care, concern and stewardship?”

In response, she has created a contemporary, revised semaphore code book for Lutruwita/Tasmania. It includes language that addresses climate and environmental damage as well as expressions of intimacy and care. The new codes are designed so they can be used flexibly. As a call to action, an instruction, a plea, a poem, a love letter, or a warning.

Curator Theia Connell will guide you through this exhibition, and explain how you can get involved.

Places are free, but limited.

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