Pressure Systems (2026) is an immersive projection and sound installation by Yandell Walton and Jana Irmert that explores the hidden forces shaping the Gardens of Stone landscape. Combining a digitally transformed 3D scan of local sandstone with an analogue synthesiser composition informed by the rhythms and memory of longwall mining, the work reveals the entanglement of deep geological time, ancient swamp ecosystems, and the ongoing pressures of extraction that continue to reshape the landscape.

Artist Talk

Thursday 1 October 6.30-7pm

Yandell Walton

Yandell Walton is a multi-award-winning artist based on Wurundjeri Country in Melbourne. Creating site-specific installations in both public and gallery contexts, she has become recognised for immersive moving-image works that merge architectural space with technology in unexpected and unprecedented ways. Walton often repurposes technologies to create environments that blur the boundaries between physical and digital experience, exploring ideas of impermanence, ecological fragility, and human entanglement with more-than-human worlds. Her practice spans moving image, real-time systems, motion capture, and experimental digital workflows, resulting in installations in which mediated landscapes feel simultaneously embodied and ephemeral.

Walton is currently undertaking a PhD in Fine Art at the University of Melbourne, where her research examines cross-species embodiment and distributed agency within computational media art. Recent projects include When We Are One, presented at the International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA) 2024 and Re:Cultivate research residency in partnership with Australian Network for Art and Technology.

Jana Irmert

Jana Irmert is a Berlin-based sound artist and composer working across spatial composition, film and live performance. Her practice explores the liminal space between musical sound and noise, using extensive experimentation with field recordings to shape immersive sonic environments. Engaging with themes of temporality and impermanence - particularly in the context of ecological crisis - she creates atmospheric sound worlds that embrace dissonance and fragility as reflections of our reality.

Her work has been released on labels including Shelter Press, Fabrique Records, Important Records, and Longform Editions. As a composer and sound designer, she has contributed to award-winning feature films, documentaries, VR experiences, and video installations. She has performed at international festivals and institutions such as Berlin Atonal, GRM (Paris), Extreme Chill (Reykjavik), and Elevate Festival (Austria).