Virginia Overell
4m55s digital video, 2024
Locations:
00:00 Flagstaff Gardens, Melbourne
00:15 Camberwell Market, Camberwell
00:27 Sydney Modern, Sydney
00:30 Exhibition Street, Melbourne
00:36 Bowen Street, RMIT, Melbourne
00:47 Collins Street, near Swanston, Melbourne
00:54 Collins Street, near Elizabeth, Melbourne
01:00 La Trobe Street, Melbourne
01:08 Guilford Lane, Melbourne
01:19 Swanston Street, Melbourne
01:34 Looking on to corner of Queensberry and Leicester Streets, Carlton
01:43 Crossing Swanston Street, Melbourne
01:47 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
01:59 Melbourne Central, Melbourne
02:02 Camberwell Market, Camberwell
02:06 Smith Street, Collingwood
02:19 Grassland on Little Collins Street, Melbourne
02:25 Grassland on Smith Street, Collingwood
02:34 Bourke Street, Melbourne
02:42 Federation Square, Melbourne
02:51 Australia 108, Southbank Boulevard, Southbank
03:00 City Road, Southbank
03:33 Above Princes Bridge, Melbourne
03:43 Buddha’s Day & Multicultural Festival, Federation Square Melbourne
04:03 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne
04:12 Royal Arcade, Melbourne
04:13 Stop 5 - Elizabeth St/ La Trobe St, Melbourne
04:27 Looking at the reverse side of a 20 cent coin featuring an image of a platypus, designed by Stuart Devlin - on Elizabeth Street, Melbourne
04:36 Leicester Street, Carlton
04:42 City Road, Southbank
Virginia Overell is a landscape architect and artist based in Naarm/Melbourne. She has a deep interest in design that performs both ecologically and therapeutically and is passionate about the potential for public space to elicit joy and pleasure, particularly within a dense urban context. As an artist she has exhibited at The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Gertrude Contemporary, TarraWarra Museum of Art, The National Gallery of Victoria: Australia and as part of the Tbiilisi Triennial in Georgia. Currently, she is working as a senior landscape architect at OCULUS.
She runs an intermittent newsletter Out There with Olivia O’Donnell – a place to collate and share links, ideas, tangents, circumnavigating landscape. https://outtherenewsletter.substack.com/. And is a member of Second Place, a collective opening dialogues around alternative and expanded modes of landscape architectural practice. https://www.second-place.co/