Hannah Brontë, Katthy Cavaliere, Lottie Consalvo, Dennis Golding, David Greenhalgh, Wade Marynowsky, Ida Sophia, Jodie Whalen

‘Moving’ brings together works by Australian artists exploring the dynamic intersection of water, performance and the moving image. The exhibition considers water as subject, medium and metaphor. It celebrates durational works that explore water’s capacity to carry emotion, hold memory and reflect lived experience.

The works featured utilise elements of performance art, through actions and perspectives that engage the body and time in unique ways. Artists embrace tenets of performance, with many directly featuring the body, voice, or gesture. Other works convey lived experience through language, layered imagery, and intimate visual detail that echoes human perception and sensory experience.

In distinct and nuanced ways, the works in ‘Moving’ reflect on our psychological and physical relationship to water, its capacity to erode, to heal, and to propel. The exhibition features key moving image works alongside photographs, textiles and paintings that crystalise moments, distil gesture and translate meaning across media. Presented together in an immersive installation, these works allow audiences to consider how water, like time and the moving image, is both transient and persistent.

Image: Jodie Whalen, ‘We already know how to build a time machine’, 2023, video still, HD video, with sound, 16:9, 4:58 min. Image courtesy of the artist.