Summer Exercises

The Summer Exercises by Professor Ross Gibson, will be launched by writer, Roberty Drewe, on Wednesday 14 January at the Justice and Police Museum in Sydney.

A civilian chaplain records whispered confessions and low urgings into a notebook during his summer tenure at Central Street Police Station. Constructing this notebook of a sharp observer, author Ross Gibson builds a world: Sydney in 1946 - sordid and bruised after decades of depredations.

In The Summer Exercises, Gibson uses photographs from the collection of Justice and Police Museum taken between 1945 - 1960. These photographs, generated by NSW Police in the course of their investigations, form a visual reference for an artistic re-invention of history as it happened.