In Ghost Tree, Tania Ferrier painted over paintings she originally produced for The Quod Project that were based on her own families photographs of holidays on the island. Ferrier has painted a rendition of one particular Tuart tree, near Pinkies Beach, that expresses the beauty and the sorrow of the island’s history. The tree is repeatedly painted to suggest a transition of time from dawn to dusk to midnight and they sit alongside a series of small ink washes produced plein air, on site. Ferrier’s family memories lie beneath these works and are her way of acknowledging the layers of history on the island; as a place much loved by holiday makers and as a place that holds the possibility for a far greater experience if we choose to learn and understand the deep and powerful connection to Rottnest/Wadjemup for Western Australian Aboriginal people.