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| Holden's gesture aimed to provide a dignified burial for members of the community and reflected the value placed on 'dignity in death' by Victorian society at a time when rural hardship and death from cholera and typhoid was common. He raised funds for this scheme by selling small self-portrait memento photos to those he met as he travelled across the region selling tea. |
| Each September since 2023 artist Melinda McGarry has invited artists to make work in response to the local area, specifically St. Marks Church, Keenley Chapel and the Ninebanks Hearse House. |
| The works made as part of the series For the Hearse House have been included in McGarry's rural community project in 2023, '25 and '26. Installed in the Hearse House they hold a conversation with the space and history of the building; exhibited elsewhere the motif of the hearse house speaks to ideas of refuge and shelter, and their often precarious and temporary nature. |
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| Isaac's Gift |
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| Hearse & House |
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| Across the Years |
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Across the Years |
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| Precarious Refuge |
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| Shell: In Our Trying Hour |
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| Chaseki (A Place for Tea) |
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| Gift lll: Enfold |
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| Notes for the Hearse House |
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| Gift ll: Perch |
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| Shell: In Our Trying Hour |
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Shell: Manifesto |
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