Individual Residencies
2022 | Nick Gadd
I am an Australian author of novels and memoir. My work, informed by psychogeography, explores the connections between people, places and memory. I am interested in the layered histories of places – manifested in details of architecture, derelict buildings, edgelands, old signage and other traces of the past – and the ways that familiar places become infused with memories, thoughts and feelings.
My most recent book, Melbourne Circle: Walking, Memory and Loss (2020) is an account of a two-year walk around the city of Melbourne with my late wife Lynne, who died of cancer a short time after the walk was completed. The book is about lost places and forgotten stories, as well as a personal memoir about grief and regeneration. In my current work I continue to investigate these themes.
In the ancient village of Collemacchia I encountered a richness of layered stories that inspired new writings in fiction and non-fiction.