Matter – Staff Exhibition

PUBLIC EVENT OPENING (SUBMISSIONS OPEN TO STAFF ONLY)

This year’s staff exhibition is centred on the theme “Matter” — a prompt to reflect on material, substance, and the significance of the tangible in a world increasingly shaped by the digital and the conceptual.

“Matter” invites participants to engage with the physicality of making: texture, weight, surface, decay, transformation.

Whether through the reuse of found materials, the exploration of digital materiality, the use of unconventional tools, or the layering of process onto substance, this theme asks you to investigate how matter holds memory, resistance, agency — and how materials carry narratives of culture, industry, the environment, or the self. Staff are invited to either respond literally through sculpture, texture, or craft or conceptually — considering invisible materials, the dematerialisation of digital work, or the politics of sourcing. In all cases, “Matter” is a call to reconnect with the stuff of things.

All creative mediums are welcome: visual art, design, moving image, photography, sculpture, installation, performance documentation, sound, interactive media, etc.

OW Staff members: SUBMIT YOUR WORKS HERE