Ocean & River

‘My body intersects with that body of water and I can see the effect that this body has on that body. A ripple expands from a point by the motion of a body through water. Waves undulate and move around a static body predictably. The sun rises and sets and if you stay out in it too long, your skin will burn. The moon waxes and wanes, tides come and go and seasons change. We are here, we are not. There is rhythm. There is order. There are steadfast and unwavering invariants like gravity and the speed of light and every action having an equal and opposite reaction. Three years with no summer, (the floods, the floods and the fires), shows a pattern. Action and reaction. The relationship between humans and the natural world is delicate, it can be both harmonious and disruptive. The ocean will continue to beat against the shore long after we are gone. Our ripples will dissipate. Balance will be restored.’

- Zan Wimberley

These videos were created for Siteworks: From a deep valley, a family of projects at Bundanon that draws on climate research, critical thinking through contemporary art, creative digital spaces, and Indigenous knowledge and technologies.

Zan Wimberley

Zan Wimberley’s practice uses expanded photography, the visual manifestation of physics, (the study of light, space and time), to quietly and poetically consider the world and its complexity. Her practice seeks to visualise invisible phenomena to help understand the natural world and climate change.

Wimberley holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Photography with a Masters in Contemporary Art. Her work is held in public and private institutions in Australia and Internationally. Wimberley completed a residency with Studio Olafur Eliasson in 2019. She is currently Artistic Associate at the Powerhouse Museum (for Applied Arts and Sciences) in Sydney, Australia.

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Bundanon’s annual presentation of environmental research projects and public programs has a decade-long history.  In 2022, Siteworks is presenting a family of projects that draw on climate research, critical thinking through contemporary art, creative digital spaces, and Indigenous knowledge and technologies.

The starting point for Siteworks 2022 is the concept of the weather report, borrowed to map both environmental and emotional spaces, and chronicle internal and external landscapes. This expansive program includes a new exhibition, outdoor installations, a laboratorium space for workshops and performances, as well as talks and events over weekends throughout the season. Siteworks 2022 posits the artist as a kind of weather balloon, capturing a collection of reports on our place and our time.

Commissioned by Bundanon; part of the weather station in Bundanon, NSW, Australia - find out more here.