2026 Create sa Fellowship
Amber Cronin - Application Support Material
2 videos as part of 10 Examples of Recent Work
1. Video documentation featuring sound design from A Weight to Entice Buoyancy, 2025.
Manchester International Festival, Exhibition + Sound Installation
Exhibition + Sound Installation July 4th - August 3rd
1min Video. Paradise Works
A Weight to Entice Buoyancy is a sonic and material installation by Amber Cronin (Adelaide, Australia) that invites audiences into a shared space of attention, reflection, and resonance. Rooted in ecological research and ancestral knowledge, the project draws on fieldwork with scientists, researchers and activists, traditional oral forms- Latvian dainas, and contemporary choral composition to explore how we stay connected—emotionally, ecologically, and socially—in times of complexity and transformation.
Presented as both an exhibition and a series of public performances across Manchester, the work brings together textile sculpture and layered choral sound. Each element is shaped by acts of care and embodied knowledge.
At the heart of the exhibition is Against the Rush of the Arrow, a new body of textile-based sculptural works. These wall-based forms evoke tools, fragments, and offerings for surviving endings. Through materials and gestures—folding, knotting, binding—Cronin draws on ancestral practices of care, persistence, and repair. The works speak to the inevitability of collapse while quietly insisting on the power of ceremony, interdependence, and collective resilience.
Alongside the sculptural works is a new choral composition A Weight to Entice Buoyancy, developed with composer Emma Borgas (Adelaide Chamber Singers) and sound designer and folk musician, Kaurna Cronin, and performed by members of Manchester’s Kantos Choir during Manchester International Festival. Drawing on traditional Latvian dainas and prayers from climate scientists, the performance holds space for grief and hope—moving between breath, silence, and harmonic layering.
2. Video documentation of Tea House, 2022 + 2025.
Australian Forest, Adelaide Botanic Gardens South Australia
September-October 2022 and 2025.
1min Video.
Concept and development by Fallow (Amber Cronin and Tom Borgas), Construction by Tom Borgas. Performance developed and directed by Amber Cronin. Working with co-hort of South Australian performers to deliver 10 day long performance. Commissioned by Nature Festival, Office for Aging Well, Adelaide City Council.
Tea House, an interactive experience of nature, ritual, and connection. Based inside a custom-designed space in the Australian Forest in the Adelaide Botanic Gardens, the Tea House is an immersive performance of ritual and connection. This sensory artistic experiment invites you to reimagine everyday rituals through reflection on connection to nature and each other.
Tea itself is one of modern society’s last remaining daily practices. Imbibing these mixtures of fragrant leaves and petals is a powerful starting point for conversations on connection, presence, place, and nature. Our teas are crafted in partnership with local Aboriginal food company Warndu to provide an even closer relationship to this particular land and place.