Where Matter Breathes brings together artists Jenn Rowe and Jaimie Klum in a powerful exploration of body, land, material, and spirit. Through sculpture, installation, photography, and wall-based works, the exhibition traces how both inner and outer worlds are formed, transformed, and made visible through matter.
Drawing on distinct yet complementary practices, Rowe and Klum use material as a way of thinking through connection, fragility, adaptation, and survival. Rowe, informed by her Trawlwoolway heritage and deep relationship to Country, works with found and reclaimed natural materials – driftwood, shells, feathers, bones, and reeds – to create sculptural forms that evoke ecological and spiritual interconnection. Klum responds through industrial and synthetic materials, shaping abstract forms that give expression to psychological and embodied states that are often felt but unseen.
Together, their works create a dialogue between landscape and psyche, nature and self. Across the exhibition, material becomes alive with memory, tension, and transformation – inviting viewers to consider how we are shaped by what we hold, lose, and become.
