Ice-told stories through layers of dust
Lead dust from mining silver in Broken Hill, Australia’s first colonial silver mine, and birthplace of international miner, BHP, was windborn in atmospheric currents and …
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Radical Symbiosis @Radius Delft
New and existing work in Radical Symbiosis: The Social Life of Microbes 02 september – 19 november 2023 as part of the Radius program 2023: …
Mussels Dream in Seaweed Song
New work commissioned by EEN FABRIEK /A FACTORY / Zeeland to tell a story about a small and non-descript parcel of coastal land; but a …
Entanglement of desert water
New work in progress: A water-led storytelling in the driest bed of an ancient sea A connection between a desert, unique water dependent ecosystem and …
The songs of lyrebirds and singing to glaciers
The songs of lyrebirds sung to glaciers A post-human understanding of anthropogenic landscapes- bookending the 2020 summer fires between the sonic memories of the lyrebirds …
Curtains for the Four River House
Curtains for the Four River House in Undercurrents, Penrith Regional Gallery, 3 Dec 2022 – 5 Mar 2023 Curated by Nina Stromqvist and Toby Chapman …
One and the Care of Many
One and the Care of Many New work in Rewild, MAXXI Rome, curated by Manuel Cirauqui. Part of S+T+ARTS Repairing the Present commissions (Above: Video …
One and the care of many (learning from lichen)
for S+T+ARTS Repairing the Present Working with the assistance of In4Art, Witveen+Bos and YES!Delft. (more: HERE) One and the Care of Many addresses lichen as a …
Learning from lichen
Awarded the S+T+ARTS residency at The Hague: Repairing the Present This awarded project by Penelope Cain, Repairing with Lichen draws on lichen as an entry …
Sidebody Woollhara Gallery
Sidebody : Catalogue Essay Elizabeth Reidy Penelope Cain works with landscapes in their widest definition with ongoing reference to the colonized, extracted and transformed landscapes …