Exhibition Works

HANNAH BRONTË

born Meanjin / Brisbane, Queensland 1991 lives and works on Kombumerri / Yugambeh Country / Gold Coast, Queensland

EYE HEAR U MAGIK, 2020 | single channel video, colour, sound
Venus, 2024 | digitally printed textiles

Hannah Brontë’s immersive video EYE HEAR U MAGIK explores how ancestral intuition has been passed down through Aboriginal people in the wake of colonisation. Brontë uses music and film to tune into a deep sense of knowing, which she refers to by many names including ‘the knowing’, ‘the cunning’ and ‘illpunja’.

Offering a foreboding sense of the future, the work explores the ways in which Brontë’s culture and spirituality have been and continue to be appropriated.

In Venus, Brontë honours birth in its many forms. Infused with femme queer magik, her practice is both tender and transformative, weaving art into celebration, healing, and play.

KATTHY CAVALIERE

born Sarteano, Italy 1972 arrived Gadigal Country / Sydney, New South Wales 1976 died Gadigal Country / Sydney, New South Wales 2012

Nest, 2010 | digital video from super 8 film
Nest 3, 2010 | chromogenic colour print on silver based paper

Symbolic and literal imagery of the home characterised Cavaliere’s practice and is powerfully distilled in the Nest series which was one of the artist’s final works.

In the work, the artist forms a ‘nest’ created from her late mother’s clothes, in an act of remembrance and mourning.

The artist carefully forms a mound on the cliffs at Clovelly Beach, Sydney, before sitting atop them naked, facing the expansive ocean. As this otherwise silent film concludes, Cavaliere’s mother’s voice can be heard singing a traditional European nursery rhyme called ‘The Cock is Dead’.

LOTTIE CONSALVO

born Gunaikurnai Country / Sale, Victoria 1985 lives and works Awabakal and Worimi Country / Newcastle and Pindimar, New South Wales

Like A Bell Under Water, 2025 | single channel video
Overcome: Moons Over Lakes (Munch’s Moons), 2022| acrylic on board

Treading water as rain meets the ocean’s surface, artist Lottie Consalvo rings a bell as if to communicate to something just beyond.

Is she calling for herself or for all of us? She rings the bell repetitively as the vibrations carry across the water—an attempt at calling to be rescued or to be given answers to lingering concerns, or to be directed to the door that opens up into somewhere else.

The ocean is a central protagonist in many of Lottie Consalvo’s works. For the artist, it is a place that holds mysticism and a mirror to our own internal worlds.

DENNIS GOLDING

Kamilaroi/Gamilaraay, Birpi peoples born Wangal Country / Camperdown, New South Wales 1987 lives and works Wangal, Gadigal, Bidjigal Country / New South Wales

Empowering Identity, 2018 | two channel video
Untitled [Botany Bay, Kent, United Kingdom], 2025 | photographic print on canson rag paper

In Empowering Identity, Golding pursues a critical view of social, political and cultural representations of Aboriginal Australian history and contemporary experiences. Often referencing science-fictional narratives through the visual motif of the cape, Golding explores relationships between figures of popular culture such as superheroes and Australian colonial histories.
Watch video here.

In Untitled,  Golding travels to Botany Bay in Kent, UK to reinterpret his previous works Cast in Cast Out (2020), reflecting upon growing up in urban Sydney while simultaneously challenging forms of colonial violence by decolonising the function of building materials used to mark boundaries and signify land ownership.

DAVID GREENHALGH

born Bundjalung Country / Mullumbimby, New South Wales 1988 lives and works Ngunnawal (Ngunawal) and Ngambri Country / Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

Evaporate This Weight, 2024 | single channel video
February ‘til August, 2024 | painting on canvas

born Bundjalung Country / Mullumbimby, New South Wales 1988 lives and works Ngunnawal (Ngunawal) and Ngambri Country / Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

Evaporate This Weight is a video collage composed of film static, Public Domain photographs, museum objects, music samples and animation. The resulting poem ‘evaporate this weight’ interrogates the need to remain fluid in times of great rigidity, drawing on verbs and adjectives associated with water to illustrate that limitations create a productive place for imaginative thinking.
Watch the video here.

The painting February ‘til August materialises the opening scene of the corresponding video work, adding silver solder drops to bridge this work into the associated poem titled ‘an ounce of flux’.

WADE MARYNOWSKY

born Gadigal Country / Sydney, New South Wales 1974 lives and works Gadigal and Yuin Country / Sydney and Nowra, New South Wales

The Beach Bum, 2023 | single channel HD video
Jervis Bay Metamorphosis, 2025 | single channel ultra HD video
The Cube That Came From The Sea, 2023 | single channel HD video

Wade Marynowsky uses moving image and media technologies not only as tools but as conceptual framework to explore the surreal, the satirical, and the socially urgent.

The Beach Bum is an experimental short film exploring the surreal and psychological nature of organic and man-made objects presented on Callala Bay Beach, NSW.

Jervis Bay Metamorphosis a surreal pastiche of images and movement, where shells collide and transform adopting new metamorphic forms.
Watch video here.

The Cube That Came from the Sea looks out to sea, contemplating themes of perception, truth and illusion. Is it an interstellar being, a conspiracy theory or hallucination?

IDA SOPHIA

born Boandik Country / Mount Gambier, South Australia 1989 lives and works Berlin, Germany

Witness, 2022 | performance-for-video, HD

Submerged and uplifted, the repetitive baptism is relentless.

Witness asks what vainly hopeful actions viewers have performed for others, motivated by self-serving ends. Emphasizing just how exhaustive, violent and ultimately futile those actions can be. Palpable moments of fatigue breakdown the repetitive action, echoing the difficulty of maintaining actions in vain hope.

At 8 years old, Ida Sophia witnessed her Father’s transformative baptism. Observing religion take her place in his attention, she began obsessively performing a faux religiosity, praying, singing, hoping to regain his attention but consequentially, she could not see God as he had.
Watch Witness here.

JODIE WHALEN

born Gadigal Country / Sydney, New South Wales 1983 lives and works Gadigal Country / Sydney, New South Wales

We Already Know How To Build A Time Machine, 2022 | single channel HD video with sound

Imagery of the ocean and sky is slowly and carefully captured on moving and still image cameras. Discerningly edited and distorted in post-production, paired with an original soundscape, offering viewers a site to contemplate beliefs and the possibility of transformation.

Repetition, replication, mirroring and reflections of the imagery, sounds and motifs is harnessed. In doing so, the work explores how meaning moves through, and translates between forms, signifying time and transformation. Extending our belief in what is real and what is imaginary, even when seeing and hearing for ourselves.

CURATOR | YVETTE DAL POZZO

Yvette Dal Pozzo is the curator of Moving. Yvette is an arts leader, curator and writer. She is passionate about working closely with artists and creatives to bring ambitious projects to fruition. As Director of Goulburn Regional Art Gallery since 2021, Yvette has commissioned major artworks and exhibitions, created partnerships with leading arts institutions and secured funding to undertake major capital works which expanded the Gallery’s exhibition footprint and improved facilities. Yvette runs a diverse artistic program including exhibitions, programs, education, collection management and commissioning public art.

Portrait of Yvette Dal Pozzo. Photographer: Karlee Holland

About Goulburn Regional Art Gallery

Goulburn Regional Art Gallery is the region’s hub for presenting, exhibiting and collecting contemporary art. Its program is big, bold and full of ideas that provoke conversation and connection to the work of artists.

The Gallery presents ambitious works, commissions new work and partners with major institutions to deliver a diverse, engaging and high-quality exhibition program. Daily education and outreach programs welcome people of every age, background and interest.

The Gallery builds a nationally significant permanent collection and enlivens the Goulburn region with new public artworks. It is a cultural facility of Goulburn Mulwaree Council, open six days a week.

About Museums & Galleries of NSW

Museums & Galleries of NSW helps small-medium museums, galleries and Aboriginal cultural centres create exciting experiences for visitors and, through this, thriving local NSW communities. We don’t run museums, galleries and cultural centres but we care about those who do. We develop their skills, connect them with others in the industry, provide funding, point visitors their way, and give them access to ground-breaking exhibitions. M&G NSW offices are located on Gadigal Land, The Rocks, Sydney.

A Goulburn Regional Art Gallery and Museums & Galleries of NSW touring exhibition, curated by Yvette Dal Pozzo.