Cavitation: Breathing Ocean — Morning Drift

Sunday 4 October, 8.30-10.00am

Tickets: $40

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Mark the final day of Cavitation: Breathing Ocean with a guided breathwork and meditation session, tuning into breath, body and the slow rhythms of water.

Led by a trained mindfulness and Yoga practitioner, Heather Foat, Morning Drift invites you to begin the day with quiet meditation, focusing on the subtle pressures, currents, and pauses that shape both the body and the sea.

Start your morning adrift at the Canoe Pool, within one of the city’s most ambitious public artworks, and experience water as a force that carries memory, pressure, movement and transformation.

ACCESSIBILITY
A lifeguard will be on duty during operating hours. Children must be supervised by a parent or guardian at all times.
The Canoe Pool offers wheelchair access at the main entrance, accessible toilets, and designated accessible street parking. Limited public seating is available.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Cavitation and Cavitation: Breathing Ocean are major commissions initiated and led by The Lock-Up, Newcastle, and presented in partnership with New Annual 2026. 

Izabela Pluta has been awarded a Creative Australia Visual Arts Major Commission grant through the international co-commissioning partnership of The Lock-Up and TRAFO Center for Contemporary Art, Poland. 

The Lock-Up and this project are supported by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body, Create NSW, and New Annual 2026. 

Collaborators and project partners include the Australian Tapestry Workshop, Adam Hulbert; sound artist, composer, researcher and performer, cultural theorist Astrida Neimanis, Ocean Seagull, Tangaroa Blue Foundation, the Institute of Oceanology, Plastic Collective Foundation, Polish Academy of Sciences, Hunter Gatherer Network, Event Engineering, Heritage Stoneworks at the NSW Department of Planning, Clyde Street Precinct, Housing and Infrastructure, UNSW Art & Design, and AX Interactive. 

Izabela Pluta is represented by Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert. 

Cavitation and Cavitation: Breathing Ocean form part of The Lock-Up’s 2026 curatorial season, A Call Across the Universe. Through sound, movement, image and encounter, artists and audiences are invited to tune in to new frequencies of understanding and exchange.