Set in the remarkable topography of Queenstown, Mandy Hunniford’s Remembrance, Landscape and Belonging is a large-scale, multimedia production. Produced in Mandy’s studio in Queenstown over a fifteen-year period, this ambitious seven-part series presents a variety of media including painting, video, sound design, digital light installations and a work of remembrance.

First created to acknowledge the great loss Queenstown has endured through mining accidents over the last century, Remembrance, Landscape and Belonging is now not just defined by the sadness of those years but also by Queenstown’s resilient community and its regenerating landscape. Presenting rich, multilayered visual experiences, Mandy seeks out both the sorrow and the beauty, the fragile and the robust, and how Queenstown is shaped by those elements.

Mandy investigated Queenstown through a combination of themes: the closeness and connections within its community, its beautiful but contested landscape and the complex histories of an arts-wilderness-mining town. Mandy is the fourth generation of her family from Queenstown and with both personal and artistic connections to the town and the West Coast, has produced a modern, innovative production with a unifying spirit of remembrance, landscape and belonging.