Current Exhibition
The City+Sea exhibition highlights the connection between Wollongong City and the sea with a film depicting the coastline and a stunning watercolor artwork. It seeks to unite people for reflection, story-sharing, and environmental interaction. The project's multidisciplinary team involves artists and geographers from various areas within the Faculty of the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities.
Wollongong is one of many global cities on the sea facing rapid environmental and social change. The sea is ever-present in the lives of the people who live on this long coastal strip, bounded by the escarpment and the Pacific Ocean.
The geographic footprint of the City+Sea artwork extends from Otford in the north to Bass Point in the south.
City+Sea invites people to reflect on their relationships with this place. We offer you an unfamiliar perspective of the city from the sea: a continuous video of the coastline filmed
from a fishing boat over three hours and forty minutes, and a corresponding 26 metre long watercolour drawing.
This is a space for people to come together, to slow down, to yarn, to write, to draw, to create, and to share stories of this place.
This research-based exhibition showcases artworks from interdisciplinary team: Dr Kim Williams (artist), Associate Professor Leah Gibbs (human geographer), Dr Lucas Ihlein (artist), Associate Professor Sarah Hamylton (coastal geographer), including artwork contributions by Hayden Griffith and Aunty Barbara Nicholson.
This project was supported by a UOW ReVITAlise (RITA) Research Grant. The exhibition received additional support from ACCESS (Australian Centre for Culture, Environment, Society and Space) and ARC Linkage project ‘Better Oceans, Better Futures’ (LP200300895).
Location: UOW Gallery, ground floor of building 29, Jillian Broadbent Building, western side of the Wollongong campus.
Dates: 20 June - 11 September, 2024
Times: 10.00 am – 4.00 pm, Mondays to Wednesdays
Admission: Free and open to the public
Official Exhibition Opening: Thursday, 20 June, 5 pm. All welcome.
Still from Bald Hill to Shellharbour: view of the Illawarra from the sea, 2024
Kim Williams, Leah Gibbs, Hayden Griffith, Lucas Ihlein, Sarah Hamylton