ASTROGAZE “memory of stars”
Installation in production, unveiled in 2027
A groundbreaking visual and sonic installation, Astrogaze draws on Palawa creation stories, ancestral memory, and celestial navigation to explore how stars once guided ceremony, travel, and life across Lutruwita/Tasmania. Created with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Pakana woman and Dark Sky advocate Theresa Sainty, Bob Scott, William Barton, and Georgia Scott. The work fuses orchestral sound, field recordings, deep space audio and Aboriginal voice and storytelling into a cinematic odyssey by starlight. A work of reverence and urgency, Astrogaze calls us to protect dark skies vital to biodiversity, cultural continuity, and ancestral knowledge.
TIM GEORGESON – Lead Artist
THERESA SAINTY – Palawa Scholar, Cultural and Creative Advisor
LUKET SCHARKE – Astro Visual tech / Astro Visuals
RYAN ANDREW LEE – Cinematography
GEORGIA SCOTT – Composer
BERNARD GARRY – Lead editor, The Editors
WILLIAM BARTON – Music Advisor
BOB SCOTT – Sound Designer
JORDY GREGG – Creative consultant
MIRIAM SHEVLAND – Dark Sky Advisor
FERGUS ROTHERHAM – Colourist
MAT HINDS & POPPY TAYLOR – Designers / architects
JAMIL HASSAN – Executive Producer
FIREHAWK STUDIOS – Production Studio
THE EDITORS – Post-Production Studio
With support from ~ Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Creative Australia, Dark Sky Tasmania, Ten Days on The Island, Taylor & Hinds Architects, University of Tasmania, Powerhouse Museum, Samsung, City of Hobart, Noema Magazine, The Berggruen Institute, Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service & FUJIFILM.
This project is about reconnecting with our ancestors, reclaiming our place in the universe and recognising the urgent need to protect our skies from the growing threat of light pollution.
By weaving together the ancestral wisdom of First Nations astronomy with contemporary artistic expression, Astrogaze offers a powerful and unique perspective on the cosmos and on our evolving relationship within.
We acknowledge the Palawa/Pakana peoples as the Traditional and ongoing Custodians of the skies, land, and waters of Lutruwita/Tasmania. We pay our deepest respects to Elders past and present, and recognise that sovereignty was never ceded.