Between Waves

17 February—5 May 2025

Artists
Maree Clarke
Dean Cross
Brad Darkson
Matthew Harris
James Howard
Hayley Millar Baker
Jazz Money
Mandy Quadrio
Cassie Sullivan
this mob

Curator
Dr Jessica Clark

Between Waves amplified concepts related to light, time and vision—and the idea of shining a light on our times—expressed by the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung word ‘Yalingwa’. The exhibition variously explored the visible and invisible energy fields set in motion by these ideas, to illuminate interconnected shapeshifting ecologies within, beyond and between what can be seen.

Through a range of contemporary art forms, including video, installation, poetry, projection, photography, painting, sculpture, sound, printmaking, and a digital commission, the invited artists developed reflective and site-responsive projects that explored and experimented with the intersection of material and immaterial realms of knowledge and knowing.

Participating artists embraced the push-and-pull dynamics that flow beneath the surface, navigating ideas of presence and absence, the known and the unknown, transgenerational and collective consciousness. Together, their reflective and site-responsive new commissions traversed internal and external worlds, embracing the sensory and cyclical rhythms of light and sound, thinking and feeling, listening and seeing, interwoven with ideas of material memory.

Between Waves  was an exhibition developed by the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) touring nationally with NETS Victoria, curated by Dr Jessica Clark.

This project was supported by Creative Victoria through the Yalingwa Visual Arts Initiative and the NETS Victoria Exhibition Development Fund; and the Australian Government’s Visions of Australia program.

Installation view of Hayley Millar Baker Entr’acte 2023 at UniSC Art Gallery. Photo: Carl Warner.

Related events

Printmaking workshop with Cassie Sullivan
Saturday 26 April, 9:30am

Opening event
Saturday 22 March, 11am

The opening program included a Welcome to Country from Aunty Helena Gulash and floor talks from curator Dr Jessica Clark and artist Mandy Quadrio.

Between Waves education kit

This Education Kit has been developed to support learning alongside the exhibition. The content of this Education Kit is aimed at students in levels/years 7-10 and is designed as an adaptable toolkit for teachers to use selectively in devising their own units of classroom learning for all learning contexts (primary, secondary, tertiary). Key sections are designed to be easily extracted as handouts for students.