For the past three years I’ve been returning to the Bexhill Quarry on the outskirts of Lismore, NSW documenting the people and ecosystems within its parameters. The location, with its aqua blue water nestled under towering sandstone cliffs, is an abandoned brickworks quarry that has become a popular swimming destination for both locals and tourists.

The quarry serves as a constant backdrop to an ever evolving microcosm, bearing witness to the people coming and going, the flora blooming and dying and the landscape shifting and changing - evoking a sense of 'place’ as temporal and rhythmic in a more-than-human world. 

A mother swimming with her teenage son... girls vaping under the pines... a collapsed road from the February flood... Wisteria in bloom... three generations of Japanese women….a cicada caught in a web. 

Focusing on the intricate relationships between humanity and the environment, the work captures the ongoing process of repair, rebuilding and recovery that characterises this community. Set against the backdrop of collective resilience the quarry becomes a site where individuals seek refuge from the heat, and the more subtle pervasive hardships in their lives. Through these connections, the work uncovers the ways in which both human interaction and the surrounding environment engage in a constant state of flux and transformation, reflecting and unspoken rhythms of healing, renewal and adaption.