MELBOURNE STORIES | STORIES BEHIND MELBOURNE’S GHOSTSIGNS with Nick Gadd

Nick Gadd has spent two years walking around Melbourne in a big circle, photographing and writing about ghostsigns (old faded signage) and other traces of the past. He will show photographs of his discoveries and tell some of the stories he has uncovered, which point to intriguing aspects of Melbourne’s history. 

NICK GADD is a Melbourne novelist, essayist and blogger.  His writings about Melbourne, history, literature, music and suburban life have appeared in The Guardian, Griffith Review, Eureka Street, and many others. He currently writes the blog Melbourne Circleabout a long walk around the Melbourne suburbs. 

In 2015 Nick was the winner of the Nature Conservancy Prize for Nature Writing for the essay ‘A Landscape of Stories’, and was shortlisted in the essay category of the Melbourne Prize for Literature. He was recently awarded a month-long residency by the Mildura Writers Festival.

melbournecircle.net griffithreview.com/articles/a-landscape-of-stories