Sky Rivers | Sandy Sanderson
Schedule
Sat Mar 07 2026 at 08:00 am to 10:00 am
UTC+11:00Location
The Creator Incubator | Newcastle, NS
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The Creator Incubator's HIC Services Artist Residency Award (HIC_ARA) recipient for 2025, Sandy Sanderson, culminates in her 12-month studio residency with ‘Sky Rivers’.Sky Rivers explores air as a living, relational force, something that moves between bodies, forests, and weather, and is never fully known.
Approached through an animist lens, air is encountered not as empty space, but as a presence: a companion, a carrier, a friend.
The installation takes form as soft sculptural elements and sound, creating space to slow down, rest, and breathe. A mound of fabric leaves gathers on the floor, marked with enlarged forms of stomata, the microscopic pores through which trees release moisture into the air. Above, long chiffon ribbons descend from the ceiling, tracing the vertical movement of breath, vapour, and weather.
Printed fabric banners bearing cryptic, elemental symbols hang in the space like devotional forms. Drawing on Renaissance and cathedral visual traditions, the work uses fabric, symbolism, and scale to gesture toward the atmosphere itself as a cathedral.
Sky Rivers is informed by the biotic pump theory, which describes how forests actively generate wind and rain through collective breathing and release.
Through symbol, fabric, and atmosphere, the installation gestures toward the vast system of air that surrounds and sustains us. It offers space to pause and breathe within that system.
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OPENING NIGHT: Saturday 7th March, 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Supported by Method Brewing & Scarborough Wines
ON SHOW: 5 – 15 March
Big Space
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The Creator Incubator
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Where is it happening?
The Creator Incubator, 15A/50 Clyde Street,Newcastle,NSW,AustraliaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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