Ivey Wawn

A young woman kneels on the soil-covered floor of an old, brick industrial building. The woman speaks into a microphone, reading from a sheet of paper. An audience of around 20 people stands in the darkened space, watching the woman.

Three young women crawl across the soil-covered floor of an old, brick industrial building. The women carry mirrors on their backs.

A young woman dances in an old, brick industrial building. A second young woman plays a harp. An audience of around 20 people stands in the darkened space, watching the woman.

A young woman, wearing work pants and work boots, dances on the soil-covered floor of an old, brick industrial building. The woman is holding a steel scaffolding structure. An audience of around 20 people stands in the darkened space, watching the woman.

Ivey Wawn

born 1990 in Sydney, Australia
lives and works in Sydney, Australia

Ivey Wawn with Ivan Cheng, Eugene Choi, Daniel Jenatsch and Taree Sansbury
Surfacing, 2019
Performance within Absorption
Thursday 9 May 2019, 7pm
Photographs by Jacquie Manning

Commissioned as part of Kaldor Public Art Project 34, Asad Raza, Absorption, The Clothing Store, Carriageworks, Sydney, 3–19 May 2019
Images courtesy the artists and Kaldor Public Art Projects

Ivey Wawn is an independent artist working between Sydney and Melbourne. Her practice emerges from dance into the choreographic, dealing with systems to build live performance situations for a range of contexts. Her work has been shown at Underbelly Arts Festival, Firstdraft Gallery and at RMIT Design Hub among others. She was recipient of the DanceWEB Scholarship in 2016, a Responsive Residency through Critical Path in 2018, and the 2019 Performance Space Experimental Choreography Residency. Ivey is a student of Political Economy at the University of Sydney and also sells her labour as a waiter between projects.

Ivey Wawn

Ivey Wawn

Commissioned as part of Kaldor Public Art Project 34, Asad Raza, Absorption, The Clothing Store, Carriageworks, Sydney, 3–19 May 2019 Images courtesy the artists and Kaldor Public Art Projects

Photo: Freya Ludowici

Commissioned as part of Kaldor Public Art Project 34, Asad Raza, Absorption, The Clothing Store, Carriageworks, Sydney, 3–19 May 2019
Images courtesy the artists and Kaldor Public Art Projects