COLLABORATIVE WORK | Victoria Hempstead & Nadia Odlum

Ether

public urban space project | 2020

located between STATION Gallery and Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert

Due to COVID-19, Victoria Hempstead and Nadia Odlum were both having their respective Art Incubator exhibitions take place, at the same time. With this overlap, the artists were inspired to activate the 900m walk between their gallery spaces and to ask - what would happen if the urban space and the walk between the galleries was also considered an artwork?”

ETHER emerged as an open and participatory project, where the artists and the public (walkers, visitors and exhibition attendees) could think about the artistic potential of the urban space between STATION Gallery and Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert (and the process of walking between them) as an artwork.

ETHER was thought of as a community garden - a place where anyone could plant seeds, harvest ideas or enjoy contemplation. An accompanying booklet was also created to instigate thought and play.

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ETHER occurs on the ancestral land of the Gadigal people of the Eora nation. Sovereignty was never ceded. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging. Always was, always will be.

This project is supported by Art Incubator.