Kennedy Nolan - Fresh Eyes: Reimagining Robin Boyd's Walsh Street

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Since 1999, Kennedy Nolan has developed a reputation as a design-focused practice with a distinct approach to built form.

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Fresh Eyes: Reimagining Robin Boyd's Walsh Street

A gathering of celebrated photographers looking at the Walsh Street House of Robin and Patricia Boyd with Fresh Eyes.

The exhibition gathers a series of images which trace a moment in time – each with diverse perspectives of the same subject, many referencing nostalgia, etymologically, the pain of homecoming, the passage of time, the uncanny atmosphere, architecture as a setting for family life, and the balance of house and garden.

These Photographers’ passion is most potently illustrated by the fact that the photographs have been donated to the Boyd Foundation and that their sales will directly financially support the operation of the house as a museum and help in safeguarding this fragile and priceless architectural artefact.

Presented as a part of Melbourne Design Week (2021), this exhibition displayed Boyd’s ‘Walsh Street’ through the lens of some of our best contemporary architecture photographers.

"As part of their involvement with the Boyd Circle Founding Group, Rachel Nolan and Patrick Kennedy, asked a number of local architecture photographers to visit the famed Boyd residence and take a single photograph. While they weren’t given a specific brief, each photographer was asked to briefly answer the question, ‘How did the house make you feel?'."