By intertwining artistic practice with ecological advocacy,ÌýActions for WaterÌýfosters a deeper understanding of our relationship with water and its vital role in sustaining life.
Actions for Water unites artists, architects, and cartographers from diverse geographies to examine swamps, ponds, wetlands, and subterranean waters as vital ecologies of renewal. While frameworks like the Ramsar Convention aim to protect these environments, their ongoing degradation highlights the urgent need for intervention. Reimagined as interconnected zones of ancestral, ecological, and scientific networks, subterranean waterscapes are envisioned as spaces of radical sensuality, otherworldliness, and speculative possibilities.
Celebrated for their biodiversity and cultural significance, the exhibition invites audiences to reflect on what lies beneath.Ìý Environmental approaches to urbanism, and regenerative futures rooted in care, creativity, and resilience are central themes explored through the works presented. By intertwining artistic practice with ecological advocacy, Actions for Water fosters a deeper understanding of our relationship with water and its vital role in sustaining life.
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Thursday 12 June, 6pm
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Tin Sheds Gallery
148 City Road Darlington
Tuesday to Friday: 10am-4pm
12 June 3:30pm - 5pm
Tending to Tides is a ritual performance workshop led by artist Zarina Muhammad, shaped by Southeast Asian cosmologies, transoceanic ritual knowledge, and multispecies storytelling. Open to all. Please register in advance and wear comfortable clothing.Ìý
2 July - 23 July
Join us for a series of online artist talks exploring the works on display inÌýActions for Water.
Tin Sheds Gallery acknowledges the Gadigal of the Eora Nation, upon whose ancestral lands our exhibitions take place. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge of these lands, waterways and Country.
Top image:ÌýTomoko Hayashi,Ìý2024. Photo by Yuna Yagi, courtesyÌýTomoko Hayashi
Bottom image:ÌýPerformance, Proximity Festival, 2016 by Mei Swan Lim. Photo by Peter Cheng, courtesy Mei Swan Lim
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Email:Ìýtin.sheds@sydney.edu.au
Address:Ìý148 City Road, Darlington Sydney, NSW