Yield

Joseph Bancroft was a physician, amateur botanist and agricultural scientist who in 1864 migrated from England to Brisbane. Bancroft’s story is one of many colonial scientists who lived in 19th century Australia.

Yield interrogates the methods used by these scientists, the knowledges they employed and the knowledges they ignored, to consider how we have arrived in our current environmental state. Yield will consider the legacies of early agricultural practices that Bancroft was connected to and how we continue to be impacted by them today.

Exhibition developed by City of Moreton Bay.