IN CONVERSATION WITH ELLEN DAHL
”On Water and Time / a glacier leaves a deep cut”
Tuesday 29 April, 1:00 – 2:00pm
Verge Gallery
Register interest here
Ellen Dahl, On Water and Time, video still, 2025, two-channel HD video with sound, 8’50” looped. Image courtesy of the artist.
On Water and Time / a glacier leaves a deep cut features large-scale photography, video, and sound by Ellen Dahl, as well as the digital poetry of Hannah Jenkins, to ‘translate’ the continually evolving nature and movements of glaciers to the audience of Verge Gallery.
To hear Ellen speak about her practice and the experience of developing this exhibition in greater depth, join our In Conversation at Verge. Talking to Ellen amidst the world of On Water will be Estelle Yoon, an emerging artist and student from Sydney College of the Arts.
Free food and drinks provided.
To attend, make sure to register via the link above.
Learn more about the exhibition and related public programs here.
About Ellen Dahl
Ellen Dahl’s artistic practice is largely rooted in working with or around the landscape. Ellen explores the expanded field of the photographic medium for its aesthetic/poetic potential to engage new ways of assembling ecological meaning and geological imagination.
Dahl is originally from Arctic Norway and moved to Australia as an adult. She now lives and works on Gadigal Land in Sydney. She has exhibited extensively throughout Australia and received an MFA (research) from SCA University of Sydney and a PhD from School of Creative Arts and Media, University of Tasmania. She is a sessional lecturer in Screen Arts at SCA.
About Estelle Yoon
Estelle Yoon is a third-year Bachelor of Visual Arts student at Sydney College of the Arts. Residing and creating on Gadigal land, Estelle is a visual artist working primarily with analogue photography and moving image. Through her sensitive and contemplative gaze, her practice explores themes of family, memory, diaspora, and queer identity. Estelle's works have been exhibited at spaces including Verge Gallery, PhotoAccess, and Pari, with an upcoming solo exhibition at CICA Art Museum in South Korea in June 2025.
VENUE ACCESS
Wheelchair access - there are two lifts available: one on City Rd and one on Maze Crescent.
Accessible and all-gender bathrooms are located about 90 metres from Verge. They are equipped with a handrail. A baby-change table is available.
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