A Cottage Year • 2022-ongoing

A cottage year is a collection of 52 different digital light projections, one for every week of the year, and Birsbane’s heritage-listed The Printery Office functions as its canvas. The work is an artistic flashback to the last years of the Brisbane Commandant’s Cottage in the early 1850’s and 60’s, before it was demolished and replaced with The Printery Office. By using historical documents of the area's climate, weather and other environmental data the projections work as a portal to the Cottages past and its surrounding area.

The work is a permanent installation, projected onto The Printery Office’s northern face, and was commissioned as part of the Queen’s Wharf Brisbane multi-million-dollar public art project.

Published & exhibited

The Printery Office, Brisbane, Australia. ABC News. 2022. ”Brisbane's Queen's Wharf to feature digital artwork by Alinta Krauth and Jason Nelson”. 31. May 2022.

Select documentation

Surtees, Eleanor. 2022. ”A Vibrant Cultural Playground: Brisbane’s Queens Wharf To Feature Stunning Visual Art Installations”. bravobne, 8. July 2022.

ABC News video:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-31/a-cottage-year-will-be-a-permanent,-digital-art/13908642

Star Entertainment Group Linkedin post:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/thestar-entertainment-group_the-heritage-listed-the-printery-office-activity-6939482538163716096-WzYb/

Video example