JUNIPER SIKORA
Juniper Sikora is a Gold Coast–based interdisciplinary artist whose practice centres on water as a living cultural presence — carrying memory, shaping land, and moving through the body. Informed by material science and relational systems, her work engages water as both substance and force: a carrier of history, consciousness, and embodied knowledge. Working with bioplastics, sound, frequency, and site-responsive materials, she explores the liminal zone where land meets water and surface gives way to depth.
Her installations invite sensory and participatory engagement, approaching materials not as neutral matter but as active participants in ecological and cultural narratives. Juniper’s practice privileges listening over assertion and relationship over representation, positioning artistic work as a site of responsibility as much as imagination. This exhibition forms part of an ongoing body of work examining water as a relational system — shaping bodies, memory, and collective experience.
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All works are unique (1/1)
Artwork
Plate 01 — Surface Tension (After Rain)
Infused activated bioplastic, reverse image transfer 57 × 87 cm 2026
A large-scale plate from the Water Response Atlas, capturing the moment water gathers, holds, and distorts. The image is embedded within a living bioplastic substrate, where material behaviour continues to shift subtly over time. Surface tension becomes both subject and structure — a record of how water temporarily holds form before release.