Promise the Earth is the next in a five-part exhibition series curated by Meryl Ryan and Naomi Riddle, with the elements – water, earth, fire, air, and æther (the post-internet realm) – as the defining features.
Fixed now on terra firma, Promise the Earth responds to urgent ecological imperatives and our environment, and speaks to cultural perspectives, ritual and connection. Moving between installation, photomedia, painting, and interactive experiences, this exhibition presents Earth as a material for making, as a site of sustenance and survival, and as a metaphor for home. The exhibition features artists Sancintya Mohini Simpson, Evelyn Malgil, Leyla Stevens, Brett McMahon, Ryan Andrew Lee, Sara Morawetz, Vicky Browne and Isha Ram Das.
Sancintya Mohini Simpson, Dhūwã̄, 2021, video projection, 16mm-to-digital, 4:3, two-channel sound, 4:45 minutes, and scent. Courtesy the artist and The Lock-Up, New South Wales
The Lock-Up
18 June to 7 August 2022
New South Wales
