Forever

Danie Mellor's large-scale installation, Forever, will be printed within the glass panels that form the glazed façade of the new State Library Station on La Trobe Street.

The artwork features historical photographic portraits of Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung women set in contemporary landscape imagery taken by Mellor on Wurundjeri Country.

The historical portrait photographs were sourced from the archives of the neighbouring State Library Victoria with assistance from the library’s curatorial team. Mellor used infrared photography to create the landscape imagery that serves as a layered setting for the significant historical portraits. The artwork is an act of storytelling that acknowledges Victoria’s First Peoples and especially women, honouring their social, familial and cultural contributions to Melbourne.

Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Elders were consulted in the development of the artwork.