Robyn Veneer Sweeney, From One Hill To Another (detail), 2025. Image courtesy the artist.
Robyn Veneer Sweeney & Mandy Evans
Gallery 2
Friday 11 July - Sunday 3 August
Opening Thursday 10 July 2025, 6pm-8pm
These longtime friends get together for their first shared exhibition and as collaborators. Mandy is located in the Blue Mountains, land of the Gundungurra and Dharug people and Robyn lives in the Snowy Valleys, land of the Wiradjuri peoples. Though separated by distance and daily life, they committed to regular studio visits and ongoing conversations to explore the process of working together.
Their project allowed them to develop a shared creative language that could unite their work while preserving their individual voices. They chose Canberra—roughly the midpoint between their two locations—as a symbolic meeting place, which they called Intermundius.
The title The Space & Time Continuum Project is a playful take on the scientific concept of the spacetime continuum, which fuses space and time into a single, fluid experience. It reflects how they each bring different perspectives to the same moment and how collaboration stretches across time, geography, and ideas.
Rather than beginning with a fixed theme, their conversations guided the work. As mature women artists, they share lived experiences—including those shaped by age and gender—and a deep appreciation for artistic practice and mutual support. The works consist of a suite of small paintings and transportable sculptures using bricolage - whatever was at hand.
Telecommunications became essential to this process: long phone calls, image sharing, social media, and studio visits helped bridge the physical gap. Canberra’s landscape, patterns, and atmosphere subtly entered the work, as did a sense of shared thinking.
This project is both a record of connection and a celebration of difference, grounded in friendship, trust, and the joy of making art together.