Sydney-based multidisciplinary artist Shireen Taweel’s practice rests within a diasporic landscape she inhabits as a Lebanese Australian. Here, the contours of the cosmos – celestial and cultural – are traced through a series of architectural and navigational affirmations, imagining future migration and pilgrimage in space.
Driven by a desire for a more culturally diverse future, and conceptually referencing instruments used to measure the distance between two objects – the astrolabe, quadrant and sextant –, Taweel reflects on the consequences of the relationship between science and spirituality, through copper sculptures, drawing and prints.
Shireen Taweel, Sacred architecture and the celestial body (detail), 2023, hand pierced copper, silver solder. Photograph: Document Photography. Courtesy the artist, STATION, Sydney/Melbourne and Penrith Regional Gallery, Home of The Lewers Bequest, Sydney
Penrith Regional Gallery
2 August to 26 October 2025
Sydney
