Launch: On Water and Time / a glacier leaves a deep cut

Join Verge in celebrating the opening of On Water and Time / a glacier leaves a deep cut by Ellen Dahl and Hannah Jenkins.

On Water and Time / a glacier leaves a deep cut brings together new and established strands of Ellen Dahl’s artistic practice and her ongoing creative collaboration with poet Hannah Jenkins. 

Working in response to two specific sites, Nordenskiöld Glacier in Svalbard and Jostedalsbreen in Norway, Dahl’s expanded photographic practice—encompassing scale, materiality, still-motion and sound—traces the marks left by the slow, inexorable movements of ice as it carves and erases in equal measure.  

Dahl and Jenkins’ long running collaboration unfolds across text, video, sound and installation, layering language over imagery in a dialogue that invites an intimate encounter with the interiority of deep time. 

Learn more about the exhibition and related public programs here.

Food and drinks provided at the launch. All welcome. 

VENUE ACCESS

Wheelchair access - there are two lifts available: one on City Rd and one on Maze Crescent.

Accessible and all-gender bathrooms are located about 90 metres from Verge. They are equipped with a handrail. A baby-change table is available.
Guide Dogs and support animals are welcome at Verge.

For detailed access information to the venue, please visit the Access page on Verge's website.

Image: Ellen Dahl, On Water and Time, video still, 2025, two-channel HD video with sound, 8’50” looped. Image courtesy of the artist.