Eve Lamb
Reverend Darcy Vaughan is not just the local Anglican priest for Maldon and Newstead.
He also has a keen eye for photography and a talent for using creativity to help make the world a better place.
And that’s exactly what the local Rev hopes to do through his new exhibition which opens tomorrow at the Newstead Railway Arts Hub.
Homesick, an exhibition features poster-sized photos which Rev Vaughan took of local congregation members he visited throughout last year’s lockdown as part of the pastoral care he provides for the Maldon Parish community, and also for the Inglewood and Bridgewater communities in the Inglewood Parish.
Concerned about how our communities were coping with the pressures of lockdowns and their resulting anxiety, Rev Vaughan went visiting along the Loddon River from Inglewood to Newstead to see how people were holding up.
Each visit resulted in a photo at the front gate, a figurative representation of the way in which we had to keep apart to keep safe.
At each socially-distanced catch up, each person was asked to share their reflections on the theme ‘homesick’.
Homesick: an exhibition is the culmination of those visits… Read more in today’s Castlemaine Mail…