Pictures 1952
Catalogue / Memoir
Introduction
Pictures
Objects
Animations
PICTURES are both finished and ephemeral works made for animations.
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Dancers with lights trace patterns in the air.
Dr Goding arrives in Beechworth.
My sister's future stage is set.
In Christchurch we go as a family to see Maori Poi dancers. On a darkened stage women swing tiny lights, tracing patterns held briefly in the air before fading away. In Beechworth the phychaitrist Dr Geoff Goding arrives and my sister Nadya's future stage is set. When Nadya was around 15 she was approaching men for sex in our street and at the local pub. It was then she was assessed by Dr Goding and diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Page 33 of Flying with my Sister (2022)
1952: Me on a river beach
New Zealand
Dr Geoff Goding worked as a Superintendent at the Beechworth Lunatic Asylum. He invited residents to staff meetings to discuss how they wanted to spend their leisure time. He enabled them to form clubs where they could do what they liked: arts, crafts, reading, writing, performing, gardening and so on.
Geoff introduced family therapy to Australia and established a clinic in Bouverie Street Carlton. I went there with my family. It could have been only meeting we went to. I was about seven. I remember fidgeting as we sat in a room around a big wooden table. I remember the atmosphere got tense and I didn't want to be there. Geoff led me to a hall play by myself. To me the hall was huge with tall walls with stained glass windows all around. Each window framed a native Australian animal in its natural environment. At one end of the hall was a stage with red velvet curtains. I danced on the stage with the dancing lights cast by the coloured glass above.
EVENTS
1952: On February 1st the Mental Hygiene Authority came into existence in Australia. Dr Geoffrey Goding was appointed as a Psychiatrist Superintendent at Mayday Hills Hospital Beechworth after spending several years in England studying re-socialisation programmes. He was anxious to bring about a fresh change to the hum-drum of patient's daily lives. His aims - occupation, proper classification and freedom. He set about organizing patients committees so that they could have a say in the organization of their time..
Ref. D.A. Craig. The Lion of Beechworth:
An Account of the History of the Mayday Hills Hospital Beechworth.
1867 - 1995
Dr Geoff Goding was primarily responsible for introducing Family Therapy to Victoria in the late 1960s.
Ref. Family Therapy
1952: A.N.Z.U.S., Australia's chief security alliance and the first important international alliance entered into by Australia, was formed with New Zealand and the United States..
Ref. The Australian Almanac, Pub. Angus & Robertson 1985
1952: Summer Olympics are held in Helsinki, Finland;
1952: Egyptian Revolution establishes a republic;
1952: The Reparations Agreement between Israel and the Federal Republic of Germany is signed;
the Great Smog of London causes widespread illness;
the Catalina affair heightens Cold War tensions;
the Bolivian National Revolution brings major reforms;
the Severo-Kurilsk earthquake kills thousands in Sakhalin.
Wikipedia world events 1952
Written by me, Lisa Roberts/Euphausia superba (Antarctic krill), on
17/04/2026
