WHAT
To celebrate the UN World Ocean’s Day on June 8, the exhibition features four women artists and brings together their artworks that suggest the many faces of Gaia – the Earth Goddess of Greek mythology and ancestral mother of all life. Each of the selected artists have practices linked closely to their experiences of nature and its rhythms, incorporating individual sensibilities to reflect the many faces of Gaia.

Zoë Marden works with performance, video, text, sound, sculpture and installation to create alternate worlds and speculative futures. Her current series of ceramic works, multi-media installations and videos take us to the underwater world of organic feminine forms; Christine Nguyen’s works draw upon the imagery of nature, the sciences, and the cosmos, imagining the depths of the ocean reach into outer space; Jessica Zoob’s intricately-layered abstract canvases paradoxically emit both energy and stillness, strongly connecting to the earth and her oceans; Katrina Leigh Mendoza Raimann works across textiles, installation, and performance, with a contemporary textile practice that threads landscapes and mosaic patterns into intricate tapestries, focusing on the histories of material and action, gender and labour.

WHY
The exhibition highlights Gaia as a complex intertwining of phenomena that as both maker and destroyer creates the harmony of life. Through the works of four women artists, the exhibition proposes the transformative nature of the Earth Goddess in all her strength to bring restorative balance to the whole.