In Translation

Writer Sam Cutajar sits down with directors Michael Banney and Jonathan Goh to explore what Translations is really about — and why photography, for all its dominance in architecture, only tells part of the story.

The piece traces how the series came together, from early conversations with Jason Grant at Inkahoots to the three works now live: Daniel Crooks' Block Universe for the Brisbane Girls Grammar School Creative Learning Centre, David Banney's About a Tree for the Tree of Knowledge Memorial, and Jazz Money's poem Let the past in for the Women's College Sibyl Centre. A fourth, by Vernon Ah Kee, is still to come AND it'll be hard to miss.

Read the full essay at Union Magazine →

Daniel Crooks, Block Universe, 2025, Translation #01 - Brisbane Girls Grammar School Cherrell Hirst Creative Learning Centre
David Banney, About a Tree, 2025, Translation #04