if you could return explores Curl Curl’s history of sand mining where parts of the once-high dunes surrounding Curl Curl Lagoon were extracted for glass manufacturing. I was speculating on the afterlife of the lagoon’s mined sand and what material transformations might have taken place. By following the poetic flows and transformations of sand, a relationship emerged between openings of the estuary, the body, and the site of the gallery. Fashioning crushed recycled soda lime glass bottles into faux glass panels that were then inserted into voids within the metal beams of the gallery space, I considered the porosity between meaning, material and site in the aftermath of this extractive industry

MASS
18 - 28 September 2024
Curated by Daniel Press
Curl Curl Creative Space (Curl Curl, NSW)

Penny Coss, Kristy Gordon, Joyce Lubotzky, Emma Pinsent, Chrystal Rimmer, Brigitta Summers, Sarah Yaacoub, and Mei Zhao

Water was the dominant theme that flowed through the exhibition. Each artist responded to the coastal suburb of Curl Curl; from the waterway that stretched from Greendale Creek downstream towards Curl Curl Lagoon and the ocean. MASS responds to the sheer density of our climate crisis.