“Antarctica: convergence and compilations”
Edwina Cooper
12 July → 16 Aug 2025
Window
Antarctica: convergence and compilations is a new project by Tarntanya/Adelaide based artist Edwina Cooper for the West Space Window.
Antarctica: convergence and compilations explores our relationship with intangible edge places and peripheries, where the impacts of climate change are magnified. With a specific interest in the Antarctic — and its fluid and unfixable glacial and sea ice boundaries — the project connects the artist with scientists and technicians working in relevant fields.
Antarctica: convergence and compilations aims to bring knowledge of this foreign and inhospitable environment ashore, sharing anecdotal and lived experience of climate change research, further highlighting the intrinsic link and impacts of the changing Antarctic climate, and how this will be felt in Australia.
In the West Space Window, an installation offers a view into the artist’s studio — sharing a record of her amassing of research alongside a hand-stitched map. Tracing Antarctica’s reported sea ice boundary, correct at the time stitching started, the map makes a futile attempt at pinning down Antarctica’s fragile boundary.
Antarctica: convergence and complications is supported by CreateSA. West Space Window is supported by the City of Yarra through their Annual Grants program.
Edwina Cooper is an artist in Tarntanya/Adelaide whose practice is influenced by her experiences as a sailor, and a continued interest in methods for human experience and interaction with oceanic thresholds. Through embodied research in the field, Cooper investigates human inferiority in the face of oceanic immensity and our resulting attempts at fathoming oceanic and other water spaces through human imposed constructs of measure and control.
