ARTIST IN RESIDENCE / Sara Retallick
16th November – 22nd November, 2026
Sara Retallick will be an artist in residence at The Lock-Up while she works towards contributing work for the upcoming exhibition The Night Blooms and Sings, curated by Moon Lacroix.
Sara Retallick is an artist and researcher living on Wurundjeri land in Naarm/Melbourne. Her work explores multisensory listening by presenting tactile sonic encounters in audio and object-based installation, multichannel sound system arrangements, and performance. Currently, she creates amplified underwater sound installations to explore sonic, physical and relational entanglements between listening bodies, water ecologies, and water histories. Her compositions incorporate modular synthesis, voice, bass, clarinet, field recordings and expanded recording practices, presented through custom-built sound systems that prioritise embodied listening.
Retallick’s work has been presented nationally and internationally at festivals/galleries such as RISING Melbourne, Dark MOFO, Now or Never, Shepparton Art Museum, Melbourne Design Week, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía Madrid, CAMP France Mountain Music Festival, International Symposium of Electronic Art, among others.
