Hannah Brontë

Katthy Cavaliere

Lottie Consalvo

Dennis Golding

David Greenhalgh

Wade Marynowsky

Ida Sophia

Jodie Whalen

Moving brings together works by Australian artists exploring the dynamic intersection of water, performance and the moving image. The exhibition considers water as subject, medium and metaphor. It celebrates durational works that explore water’s capacity to carry emotion, hold memory and reflect lived experience.

The works featured utilise elements of performance art, through actions and perspectives that engage the body and time in unique ways. Artists embrace tenets of performance, with many directly featuring the body, voice, or gesture. Other works convey lived experience through language, layered imagery, and intimate visual detail that echoes human perception and sensory experience.

In distinct and nuanced ways, the works in the exhibition reflect on our psychological and physical relationship to water, its capacity to erode, to heal, and to propel. Moving features dynamic installations of moving image works, alongside complementary works by featured artists spanning photography, textiles and painting that deepen the exhibition's material language. Together, these diverse forms create immersive experiences that allow audiences to consider how water, like time and the moving image, is both transient and persistent.

Moving draws connections with the environment surrounding Goulburn, situated at the confluence of the Wollondilly and Mulwaree Rivers and near Weereewa/Lake George, the exhibition is attuned to water’s presence in place. Here, water sustains wetland habitats, influences floodplains, and impacts the rise and fall of inland lakes.

Moving honours the powerful synergy between water, performance, and the moving image—three interconnected forces that carry memory, emotion, and transformation across time and culture.