Onespace proudly congratulates Brian Robinson for the inclusion of his artwork Zugubal: The winds and the tides set the pace in the exhibition, ‘To Come Together as Water,’ at the University of Queensland Art Museum from 22 July – 6 September 2025
“to come together as water unites cultural and creative practices as an expansive reimagining of water protection. Across deep subterranean basins, inland rivers, tidal flats, coastlines and seas, the exhibitionreflects on our shared responsibilities to saltwater and freshwater Country. Anchored by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives and lived experience, artists translate how we care for place and sustain community, knowledge, and life worlds.
Through resistance, regeneration, collaboration and observation, featured practices emphasise the indelible interconnectedness of waterways, which connect to an extended network of kinship: human and more-than-human, plants, animals, tides and wind. In these connections, artworks reveal the relationships and lessons of responsibility developed over time, generations and seasons, that continue as culture. Rising to the surface, are the extreme conditions faced by saltwater and freshwater communities, each with specificity and insights into past and present methods of water stewardship in the decline of balanced ecosystems, drought, pollution and increasing sea levels.
to come together as water gathers us all in a shared responsibility of place, and foregrounds responsive and timely practices alongside new movements of collective action that are shaping futures suggestive and resilient against immense change.
This exhibition is presented as part of the long-term research initiative Blue Assembly, which calls attention to the ways in which oceanic spaces are inextricable to the survival of all species.”
Image: Joe Ruckli.