Aurelia King

What does it mean to really know a place? There is a particular comfort in spending time where you are familiar, a place that hums with known sounds and patterns. How often do you take note of the spaces you move through each day? The artists in this activation bring works that draw from local environments, including elements that are often invisible to the naked eye. Together, they invite us to consider the deeper contexts of the everyday, whether it is the air we breathe, the water that surrounds and shapes Sydney, the sap and fibres of trees, or the topographies of the shore.
 Think with care. Think with place. Deep Place. Captured by @jessica_maurer_photography

Deep Place: Installation Weekend Randwick Town Hall | 22–23 November 2025 Floorplan Studio presents Deep Place: Installation Weekend at Randwick Town Hall, bringing together works by Aurelia King, Allan Giddy, Blake Bridgewater and Penelope Ajani, with sound by Matthew Tankard. 

The installation traces connections between art and the eastern suburbs’ living ecologies. Air, sap, light and sound are treated as materials for observation and listening, inviting attention to the textures of local Country. Across the weekend, artists will be present in the space to share the stories and processes behind their works. Visitors are warmly invited to contribute their own observations of place. These audience reflections will be gathered and woven into the evolving installation, creating an exchange between artists, community, and Country. Deep Place: Installation Weekend continues Floorplan Studio’s focus on site-responsive, ecologically engaged practice. The project brings together artists whose work attends to local environments through fieldwork, experimentation and small acts of care, foregrounding the links between creative practice and local environmental knowledge. Join us Saturday 22 November, 2.00–3.00 PM for a conversation with Allan Giddy and Penelope Ajani. This is the final session in the Deep Place - Town Hall Takeover series, proudly supported by Randwick City Council. @randwickcouncil @penelopeajani @blake_bridgewater @allan_giddy @_aureliaking_ @mayaamw_ @matthewtankardvevo

Spent the weekend installing the most recent iteration of my soundmounds for the Shanghai International Paper Art Biennale. Opening 31 October, Fengxian Museum, Shanghai，奉贤博物馆 Thank you to the amazing team for making this happen! Even building a room for my little soundmounds to be able to light up in lantern form ✨ This iteration of “I hear, I heard, I am listening” builds on a collection of soundmound sculptures modelled on soundwaves collected in Sydney, Taipei, Tokyo, and now Shanghai. Incredible and grateful to live in a world where a project like this can exist.

A mini Irrational Mapping is available right now via the annual Firstdraft auction. Photo credit: Jessica Maurer @jessica_maurer_photography

Irrational Mapping, Detail, 2024 Rice paper, thread Photography: @_laura_moore

Irra Irrational Mapping, Detail, 2024 Rice paper, thread Photography: @_laura_moore

“Hanging by a thread has never felt so purposeful… King’s suspended installations embody that fragile tension—tethered, albeit tenuously, yet with convincing purpose. Suspension isn’t passive here; it’s strategic. Its inherent instability demands focus, testing our collective obsession with control and permanence. Aurelia King’s Irrational Mapping (2024) lingers in the gallery foyer, unsteady but poised. Two large sheets of layered rice paper hang from the ceiling, suspended by seven red threads, tied together with four neat bows. A map? Perhaps. But it is faceless, emptied out, wiped clean. Cartography is nowhere to be found. Maps typically signify control—simultaneously dictating space and asserting ownership. Yet, unlike the rigid, immutable geography we are conditioned to trust (that digital map ever-present in our back pocket), King’s grid dances across the white expanse in a wobbly, hand-placed rhythm. The crisscrossing red threads evoke Taiwanese calligraphy paper, a reference to the artist’s cultural heritage. Here, the familiar coordinates of North, South, East, West dissolve, unmooring us from the Cartesian logic that often fixes our sense of place. The grid sags, threatening to collapse—an instability welcomed by King, even desired.” Excerpt from MassMemo Review by Siri Wingrove, Curator. @siriwingrove Photography: @_laura_moore

I hear, I heard, I am listening

Thank you to @okamemochi.collective , in particular @_ari.sada.pon_ for bringing me to to Tokyo for this exhibition at @t5f.tokyo ❤️ So proud to have exhibited along side such talented peers , Jiawei Tian @juuisweet_ , Vivi Zhu @viivi_zhu , Shaikha Al Ketibi @shaikhaco “Swallow Them, Scatter It, Then Pray for Me” curated by Sun Kim @sun_with_the_cat_in_the_dark and Vivi. Producers: Alissa Osada-Phornsiri @_ari.sada.pon_ , Minano Hirano @lily_mm69 The most beautiful and touching performances by Tomomi Onuki @tom0nk , Eureka Toyoda @toyodasan_0116

Repost • @t5f.tokyo Thank you so much for coming to “Swallow Them, Scatter It, Then Pray for Me” ! Stay tuned for the update on the upcoming program👀 【Statement】 “Swallow Them, Scatter It, Then Pray for Me” will revive the smothered voices of women from diaspora by reflecting on incommunicable intergenerational memory. Welcome to the Hotel Calliope, an in-between space of temporal transit, a transient stop where the past and the future intertwine. Performances happen periodically, accentuating the artwork into a multi-layered story, merging reality, fiction, and history. Entering each hotel room, you enter a pocket dimension. Here, you venture into these memory-like narratives, puzzled by their unattainable nature… [full statement on our website…] 【Exhibition Info】 Dates: 17th (Sat) August - 1st (Sun) September, 2024 Artists: Shaikha Al Ketibi @shaikhaco , Aurelia King @_aureliaking_ , Jiawei Tian @juuisweet_ , Vivi Zhu @viivi_zhu Performance Artists: Tomomi Onuki @tom0nk , Eureka Toyoda @toyodasan_0116 Director: Sun Kim @sun_with_the_cat_in_the_dark Curated by: Sun Kim, Vivi Zhu Producer: Alissa Osada-Phornsiri @_ari.sada.pon_ , Minano Hirano @lily_mm69 Organized by: (O)Kamemochi @okamemochi.collective Co-organised by: The 5th Floor Cooperation:  Lea Embeli, Nina Zhao Patronage for The 5th Floor: D/C/F/A   Design: Ana Jovanovska @anajovanovska Photo by @takehisanaoki

Rockpool residency An offsite @woollahragallery exhibition by @floorplanstudio_ Photos: @floorplanstudio_