South East Water join as partners with ANAT to support artist in residency with Yandell Walton

I’ll be working with water not only as material and concept, but as agent—asking how flows, rhythms, and environmental shifts can be translated into visual and temporal language.
- Yandell Walton

Image Credit: Yandell Walton, water simulation development 2025

We are thrilled to announce that South East Water have joined as industry partners to support the Fishermans Bend Artist in Residence program, ANAT Bespoke :: Re-cultivate with artist Yandell Walton. 

This partnership will support a three-month creative residency unlocking collaboration between art, science and technology to foster new knowledge, ideas and emerging modes of multidisciplinary practice.

Using the theme of water in Fishermans Bend as inspiration, the residency will support Yandell Walton in a period of interdisciplinary exploration, immersive creative research, knowledge-sharing and collaboration with subject matter experts.

As key innovators who are playing a critical role in reimagining the future of urban water in Fishermans Bend, it is very fitting that South East Water have joined as industry partners.  

The Re-Cultivate residency will give Walton access to South East Water subject matter experts, research and systems, while offering South East Water an entirely new way to communicate complex issues through artistic storytelling.

For FB IDEAS, it is part of a broader vision to seed cultural and experimental activity in Fishermans Bend ahead of major urban development. These small, creative interventions speak to a bigger idea: that cities can be shaped not only by policy, but by imagination.

Letting water speak through data

Throughout the residency, artist Yandell Walton plans to explore how environmental data can be used to create immersive art, asking not what we can do to water, but what water is already telling us.

Walton is working with water as both material and collaborator.   As she says:

“I’ll be working with water not only as material and concept,but as agent—asking how flows, rhythms, and environmental shifts can be translated into visual and temporal language.”

Her recent work Waterline makes this approach tangible. One screen shows a CGI simulation of water engulfing a room. Another shows a lush forest gradually submerged by the Balbina Dam, an unsettling portrait of ecological loss and technological domination.

Known for her moving image installations that blur the line between the real and the virtual, Walton brings a deeply embodied approach to digital practice. Her work has featured at Dark Mofo, ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE, Light City (USA) and more.

Follow the artistic journey

Walton’s creative research journal, hosted via the ANAT website, offer a candid and evolving record of her process. Featuring imagery, video and written reflections, it serves as a living artefact of the residency’s progress. 

Follow Yandell Walton’s Creative Research Journal here

Art + Science + Collaboration

In an era of climate crisis, Re:cultivate offers a different kind of response. Poetic, grounded, and deeply attuned to the stories the land, and the water, are already telling us.

ANAT’s Bespoke programme places artists in close collaboration with scientists, researchers and institutions. This is not outreach, but co-creation, where artistic insight becomes part of the innovation process.