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Kathryn Bird

All tidal boundaries actions

     TB 1 mending, unmending

TB 2 shadow tracing

TB 3, 4 ,5, 6 fence rubbing & stamping, driftwood & windwork

TB 7 painting with plants

TB 8 patching & tearing

TB 9 charcoal, wind, fig tree

TB 10 seawater, sand, gold

TB 11 tide line drawings

TB 12 port jackson fig pressing

TB 13 shadow/fence tracery

TB 14 green weaving 

TB 15 graphite, charcoal

shadow, gold 

TB 16 tideline overdrawing

TB 17 charcoal, seawater, scroll

TB 18 collaborative canvas

TB 19 figs & paper

TB 20 pontoon drawing

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tidal boundaries sequence

A sequence of environmentally responsive actions undertaken at Redleaf beach in Sydney's east over the course of 4 months. This suite explores the ecological, political and colonial dynamics that continue to contest the land and waters of the Gadigal and Birrabirragal people. 


Much of this sequence addresses a notable rift/breach that has been cut and bent into the fence that attempts to demarcate 7 Shillings Beach as a "private" beach, cut off from the public beach that borders Redleaf pool. By repeatedly drawing attention to the glaring hole in the fence, made and remade by anonymous citizens over decades, the works in the Tidal Boundaries sequence join a tradition of resisting the privatisation of Sydney's coastline 


This project was developed while on residency with Little Umbrella Collective at Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf. 

tidal boundaries action 1: 

mending & un-mending (weaving)

tidal boundaries action 2: 

shadow & metallic pastel (drawing)

tidal boundaries actions 3 & 4: 

fence rubbing & stamping (printing)

tidal boundaries action 5 & 6: driftwood & wind work (ephemeral)

tidal boundaries action 7: 

painting with plants (painting)

tidal boundaries action 8: 

patching and tearing (performance)

tidal boundaries action 9: 

charcoal, wind, fig tree (drawing)

tidal boundaries action 10: 

seawater, sand, gold (painting)

tidal boundaries action 11: 

tide line drawings (watercolour)

tidal boundaries action 12: 

port jackson fig pressing (print)

tidal boundaries action 13: 

shadow/fence tracing (painting)

tidal boundaries action 14: 

green weaving (ephemeral installation)

tidal boundaries action 15: 

graphite, charcoal, shadow, gold (watercolour)

tidal boundaries action 16: 

watercolour artwork on paper (overpainting) waves, charcoal, metallic paint, handmade paper (painting)

tidal boundaries action 17: 

pianola roll, seawater, charcoal

tidal boundaries action 18: 

collaborative drawing 2 - gold watercolour added to collaborative artwork (painting) 

tidal boundaries action 19: 

port jackson figs, paper (ephemeral sculpture)

tidal boundaries action 20: 

pontoon, waves, dance, port jackson figs, metallic paint, handmade paper (performance, painting)

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