NOT: rising tide (marea crescente)

On display in the Riverbend Room in conjunction with 'Light Source' is NOT’s 2025 installation 'rising tide (marea crescent)'.

The city of Venice is famously sinking. In its fluctuating lagoons is a world of human debris, linking to the earliest examples of human settlement in the region – all forming the basis of rising tide (marea crescente). In blown fluorescent aqua vessels swirled with specks of bronze and Italian marble clinging to ancient forms, the artist dredges up memory and plumes of hope. Here the coloured glass that has made Murano famous since the Renaissance is infused with uranium. When lit with blacklight, the work glows with a petrochemical luminosity suggesting something toxic at play beneath its watery surface.

NOT is a Sydney and Canberra-based artist known for his work in glass and ceramics. Often working with found and repurposed materials, his installations draw attention to the unshakable presence of our history and in doing so recast the present into the future, igniting an uncomfortable sense of responsibility.

rising tide (marea crescente) is on show in the Riverbend Room from 22 August to 19 October 2025.

Supported by Create NSW

Image: NOT, 'rising tide (marea crescente)' 2025. Photograph courtesy of the artist

You may also like the following events from Drill Hall Gallery:

• This Friday, 22nd August, 12:00 am, Light Source in Canberra
• Next month, 7th September, 04:00 am, 2025 Lecture Series: The 50 years that changed painting 1867-1917 in Canberra

Also check out other Arts events in Canberra.