St Kilda Walking - Public Art and Memorial

Introduction This document began whilst I was doing research on The Great Wall of St Kilda . I discovered that the mural was couched in the history and place of St Kilda - it arose from a history of both exclusion and the inclusion of diverse groups of people of St Kilda. Camille Monet, (artist and facilitator of the mural) said the mural was about ‘the real St Kilda’.  The mural nestles in Talbot Reserve, but is connected many places all around it, in St Kilda - Acland Street, the Esplanade, Luna park, the Palais, Fitzroy Street, Veg Out, Peanut Farm. I imagined all of these places and the people who inhabit them, as part of the making process, dragged towards and through the wall where they settled on the surface, fixed. It was a representation of a particular moment in time, of St Kilda, but also an embedding of the people at that time through involving them in making the surrounding tiles.  Initially, I wanted to find out how the G