Yield

Joseph Bancroft was a physician and scientist who in 1864 migrated from England to Brisbane.

A leader in experimental agriculture and medicine in the burgeoning colony of Queensland, Bancroft had a significant impact on the landscape and economy of this region.

Bancroft’s story is one of many colonial scientists who lived in 19th century Australia. When their legacies are considered as a whole, they have significantly shaped the country we live in today.

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.

Bancroft’s approach as a scientist veered towards knowledge accumulation and domination rather than one that embraced co-existence with the landscape.

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.