Australian undercurrents: Why curators are (still) fixated on water

In case you haven’t noticed, Australia’s visual art scene is experiencing waves. ArtsHub dives into these watery synergies.

While being drawn to water is a primal instinct, Australia‘s visual art scene has presented an especially fertile hotbed of contemporary discussions around the theme of water in recent years.

Curators have adopted water’s characteristics of fluidity, resilience and interconnectivity to bring often heated and contested discussions to the forefront in a way that is open to interpretation and remains relevant for years to come.

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Celina Lei is an arts writer and editor at ArtsHub. She acquired her M.A in Art, Law and Business in New York with a B.A. in Art History and Philosophy from the University of Melbourne. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne.