Ground Tours

Ground Tours is a temporary exhibition comprising a series of audiovisual works made across three stormwater drain grills and an accompanying poster series. Activating the below‑ground waterways that course and trickle through the Parkville campus, the project engages these flows as acoustic corridors for conversation, listening and vocalisation. It was developed in dialogue with The Grand Tour, an exhibition of selected etchings gifted to the University collection by Terence (Terry) Lane OAM (1946–2024) and presented at the Noel Shaw Gallery, Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne, July 2025–June 2026. Placed in relation to The Grand Tour, Ground Tours turns attention to the local, and the submerged.