Nicole Voevodin-Cash

Lines on a map – it’s all abstract until someone puts up a fence half-a-meter into your block of land; your neighbourhood is identified as the site for a future nuclear power plant; or another nation tries to displace you and re-settle your country.

What about future flood lines and high tides? Perhaps it’s not so real until there’s water pooling around your feet. Nicole Voevodin-Cash’s, Lines We Cannot Cross, uses walking as a way of mapping the future realities of rising sea levels along the Noosa River. Using eco-friendly line-marking paint, the installation traces projected high-water lines, incorporating text that details dates, tide heights, significant rain events, and other climatic data. This theoretical (but very real) cartographic information is made visible, emphasising the inescapable reality of climate change and its measurable impacts.

Audiences are invited to walk these lines, embarking on a journey of revelation and reflection on the future.

ARTIST BIO

Nicole Voevodin-Cash creates immersive and site-specific installations that blend sculptural interventions, new media, and ephemeral practices. Central to her artistic ethos is ‘Interaction’ as a sculptural strategy. Imbued with a passion for immersive experiences, Voevodin-Cash crafts artworks that beckon the audience not just to observe but to partake actively.

Nicole Voevodin-Cash draws lines on the ground to show where future floods might reach. Walking them helps imagine rising sea levels in Noosa.