Verge Gallery: On Water and Time exhibition

Get to know Verge’s latest exhibition:
By Ellen Dahl with poet Hannah Jenkins
📆 10 April – 16 May 2025

On Water and Time / a glacier leaves a deep cut showcases the ongoing creative collaboration between artist Ellen Dahl and poet Hannah Jenkins. 

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

As new snow and ice reform the glaciers, they embed information on the chemical composition of the atmosphere, creating unique high-resolution archives of the planet’s climate. Ice cores extracted from glaciers provide critical data for tracing environmental changes, but as glaciers melt more than the new snow and ice they attain each winter, these frozen records of environmental and climatic history turn into meltwater. 

On Water and Time / a glacier leaves a deep cut considers how these natural archives shift, dissolve, and reveal the impact of human activity on the environment. 

Events Lineup:

Exhibition Launch
📅 Thurs 10 April: 6–8pm
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Slow Looking Workshop
📅 Wed 16 April: 1–2pm
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In Conversation with Ellen Dahl
📅 Thurs 29 April: 1–2pm 
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Student Sound Programs: Echoes
📅 Thurs 1 May: 1–2pm 
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Digital Poetry Workshop: Making Poetry Machines
📅 Tues 6 May, 11am–1pm
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Image credit: Ellen Dahl, On Water and Time, video still 2025. Two-channel HD video with sound. 8’50” looped. Courtesy of the artist.