The Crimson Thread investigates the ubiquitous presence of Australia’s British heritage through the lens of Queen Elizabeth II’s Royal Tour of Australia in 1954. The project was made by retracing the queen’s tour to document what the contemporary settler society of Australia looks like today, its ongoing connection to the British monarchy and to highlight how the continual honouring of colonial history generates and sustains white privilege. 

The title is taken from a quote by Henry Parkes, a British-born, Australian colonial politician who described Australia’s connection to the British Motherland as “the crimson thread of kinship, which defined Australia as a bastion of ‘whiteness’ in the Asian region.”