Imagined histories

Every apparatus comes with a history that never happened, written for the place it stands.

Each of these works arrives with a past it never had: an inventor, a lost machine, a discovery in a farm shed or under a signal box.

The stories start from the real history of the town they stand in. The legend draws people in; the machine rewards them for looking closer. On each page you can read the legend, then see what is really there and how it was built.

• The Platypus-Tailed Glider: Noosa Town Clock, Sunshine Beach Road, Noosa Junction
• The gold-making machine: Alchemy, Gympie
• The Maryborough Match Making Machine: Maryborough Match Making Machine, Maryborough, Queensland
• Speedy Joe's pineapples: Apparatus for Expedient Market Deployment, Beerwah, Queensland
• Franz Andriessen's warning machine: Apparatus for Transtemporal Praedicto of Prodigium Futurum, Graceville, Queensland
• Concrete that floated: Lighter-than-Air Concrete, Seventeen Mile Rocks, Brisbane
• The apparatus under the signal box: Apparatus for Transtemporal Relocations of Impending Space, Gardiner Station, Glen Iris, Victoria
• The ghostly camera: Apparatus for Non-destructive Transmission of Biological Visualisation, Marine Parade, Redcliffe, Queensland
• The machine that saw 1930s Melbourne: Apparatus for Transtemporal Occurrence of Impending Space, North Wharf, Docklands, Melbourne
• The walking plant: Apparatus for Germination of Achaemienis Ambulatii, City Botanic Gardens, Brisbane
• The hidden world beneath Fitzgibbon: Hidden World, Fitzgibbon, Brisbane