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Queen of the Begonias

Art Gallery of Ballarat
 

Queen of the Begonias is a short film and photography project that pay tribute to the Begonia Queens who were a feature of Ballarat’s Begonia Festival from 1953 to 1993. This project was commissioned by the Art Gallery of Ballarat for PHOTO 2024 program with the research focus on the history of the town’s Begonia Festival and as a metaphor for belonging and becoming through the artist's reimagination becoming the ghost a contestant with Chinese heritage in the pageant in the Gold Rush town haunting the past and present time of Ballarat.