Kathryn Cowen and Gareth Jenkins, Finalists in the North Sydney Art Prize 2022
The 2022 North Sydney Art Prize
Kathryn Cowen and Gareth Jenkins
Coal Loader Centre for Sustainability
2 Balls Head Drive, Waverton
Open Daily 10am-4pm
14 - 29 May 2022
More information: www.northsydney.nsw.gov.au/artprize
The North Sydney Art Prize is a major biennial arts event showcasing some of the best in contemporary art from across Australia. This year’s exhibition features over 110 artworks to be displayed across the grounds of the historic Coal Loader site. The 2022 curatorial theme encourages artists to consider the overarching principles of the Coal Loader Centre for Sustainability. In response to the curatorial theme, selected artworks explore sustainability and the environment with many addressing the impacts of climate change and consumerism, as well as responding to the inspiring natural and industrial elements of the site and surrounds.
Kathryn Cowen and Gareth Jenkins, The Everywhere Anywhere, North Sydney Art Prize 2022, Coal Loader Centre for Sustainability, Waverton, NSW, May 2022, installation view
The Everywhere Anywhere, 2022, a site specific multimedia multidisciplinary collaborative installation by artist Kathryn Cowen and poet and experimental musician Gareth Jenkins within Chamber 10 at The Coal Loader Centre for Sustainability, Waverton, as part of the 2022 North Sydney Art Prize.
This immersive sound, light and sculpture installation recognises our current ecological and climate challenges and invites us to imagine a new future, led by speculations of the present: synthetic biology, the search for alien life, and science-fictional worldbuilding. Bathed in ultraviolet light, the artists present a future of toxic beauty where biomorphic creatures have evolved.
The Everywhere Anywhere transports the viewer into an enchanting space, where the light we live by has changed. Deep in the chambers, The Biomorphs have found their fertile home.
Kathryn Cowen and Gareth Jenkins, The Everywhere Anywhere, 2022