Hawkesbury Regional Gallery will welcome a new exhibition this June, presenting multimedia work by Australian and international artists responding to the Hawkesbury's local ecologies and environment of the Hawkesbury.
In 2024, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery partnered with local artist residency initiative BigCi (Bilpin international ground for Creative Initiatives) to deliver the biennial BigCi Environmental Award. The award provides a fully supported residency at BigCi for two artists from anywhere in the world whose practice engages environmental and ecological ideas and concerns. With the Gallery's support, the 2024 recipients were also offered an exhibition opportunity to present work developed during their residency.
The 2024 BigCi Environmental Award was awarded to Yandell Walton (Melbourne, Australia) and Mar Serinyà Gou (Spain). In the Gallery's 2026 winter exhibition program, both artists will premiere new bodies of work in Entangled Grounds.
Exploring transformation and regeneration, Melbourne-based artist Yandell Walton presents the immersive installation Becoming With. Using photogrammetry to build digitally generated environments, Walton considers multispecies relationships through video and sound, drawing audiences into connections between human and more-than-human worlds.
Entangled Grounds also brings international work to the Hawkesbury community through Spanish artist Mar Serinyà Gou. In her multi-sensory installation Back to the Beginning, Gou responds to the landscape through drawings, videos, and performance. Engaging earth, fire, water, air, and ether, Serinyà co-creates with the land to explore cycles of creation, memory, and belonging.
Together, Entangled Grounds reflects on interdependence, placing humans as one participant within a broader, interconnected ecological field.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a public program and an immersive Maker Space featuring FREE drop-in activities for all ages. The Maker Space will also operate as a designated Quiet Space from 12pm–2pm on weekdays, supporting visitors who prefer a calmer, low-sensory environment.
Entangled Grounds will be showing at Hawkesbury Regional Gallery from Saturday 6 June until Sunday 23 August. Opening hours Monday, Wednesday – Friday 10am – 4pm and Saturday & Sunday 10am – 3pm. Gallery entry is FREE for all ages.
Hawkesbury Regional Gallery is located at the Deerubbin Centre, 300 George Street, Windsor NSW 2756.
Public Programs:
Friday, 5 June, 6-8pm
Celebrate the exhibition's launch and enjoy light refreshments at the gallery.
Free, all welcome.
In Conversation with Yandell Walton
Saturday 6 June, 11am – 1pm
Join exhibiting artist Yandell Walton for an insightful conversation about her work Becoming With, and experience of working at BigCi.
Free, includes light refreshments
