The Travels of Eugen von Guérard was shown at allerArt, Bludenz, Austria, 2011 and Sirius Arts Centre, Co. Cork, 2012. The installation examined how nineteenth-century Austrian/Australian artist Eugen von Guérard exported a specific Eurocentric vision of culture to Australia, evidenced by his painting and the founding of art institutions. The ephemeral nature of the artwork included in this installation stands in contrast to the colonial nation-building production of nineteenth-century art. It included found objects, photography, text and a mural, which questioned the nature of historical realities.
This work was developed from research in Austria and Australia in 2010 and 2011. The work consisted of a painted mural with photographs, research material and text. The mural is a fragmented outline drawing of a painting by Eugene von Guérard painted onto the wall of the gallery. Guérard was an Austrian immigrant to Australia in the nineteenth century. He went to Australia to mine gold and ended up playing an important role in the development of the Australian art world as director of the art school and the art museum in Melbourne for more than thirty years. He was also an important painter in his own right, though his work is little known outside Australia.