NEW ANNUAL / Cavitation: Morning Drift

Cavitation: Breathing Ocean — Morning Drift

Sunday 4 October, 8.30-10.00am

Tickets: $40

Mark the final day of Cavitation: Breathing Ocean with a guided breathwork and meditation session, tuning into breath, body and the slow rhythms of water.

Led by a trained mindfulness and Yoga practitioner, Heather Foat, Morning Drift invites you to begin the day with quiet meditation, focusing on the subtle pressures, currents, and pauses that shape both the body and the sea.

Start your morning adrift at the Canoe Pool, within one of the city’s most ambitious public artworks, and experience water as a force that carries memory, pressure, movement and transformation.

Cavitation and Cavitation: Breathing Ocean are major commissions initiated and led by The Lock-Up, Newcastle, and presented in partnership with New Annual 2026.

Izabela Pluta has been awarded a Creative Australia Visual Arts Major Commission grant through the international co-commissioning partnership of The Lock-Up and TRAFO Center for Contemporary Art, Poland.

The Lock-Up and this project are supported by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body, Create NSW, and New Annual 2026.

Collaborators and project partners include the Australian Tapestry Workshop; Adam Hulbert, sound artist, composer, researcher and performer; cultural theorist Astrida Neimanis; Ocean Seagull; Tangaroa Blue Foundation; the Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences; Hunter Gatherer Network; Event Engineering; Heritage Stoneworks at the NSW Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure; and AX Interactive.

Izabela Pluta is represented by Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert.

Image: Still image of Izabela Pluta floating in the Canoe Pool, from the Cavitation: Breathing Ocean documentary film. Videography by Storyhaus Productions. Image courtesy the artist and The Lock-Up.