THE UNCODE: TIA MADDEN

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By Car

Undercover parking (access via Parke St) is available below the Cultural Centre, which also provides elevator access. The Cultural Centre is located on level 1.

By Train

Trains arrive at Katoomba Station every hour, and we are only a short journey from the station on foot or bike via Katoomba St or Parke St. We’re directly alongside the Carrington Hotel (you can’t miss the giant smokestack).

Accessibility

For disability vehicles or small mini buses please contact us on 4780 5410 prior to your visit to have the bollards removed from the College Lane corner. From this location wheelchair ramps and banisters can be used to gain access to be building.
There are accessible parking spaces available within the Cultural Centre building (accessed via Parke Street) underneath Coles Supermarkets. There is also lift access to the Cultural Centre from the two parking levels.

7 Feb – 29 Mar

The Uncode calls on the science-fictional, magical, and archaeological to probe the ambiguous space where drawing and writing overlap. Through expanded drawing and installation, this exhibition asks if a contemporary activation of ‘uncoded forms’ – signs not-yet or no-longer tied to a language system – can conjure new meanings or unearth powerful, ancient, repressed ones.

Combining abstractions and ancient languages into notational sequences, The Uncode constructs a large-scale text-like installation that teeters on the edge of legibility, speculating if mark-making in a contemporary art context can cross spatial and temporal distances to make contact with ancient humans, distant futures, and metaphysical realms.

A Blue Mountains Cultural Centre Altitude exhibition

IMAGE: TIA MADDEN Cyphers (detail) 2024. Photo: courtesy the artist

BANNER IMAGE: TIA MADDEN The Uncode 2026 installation view, oxidised mild steel, dimensions variable. Photo: Jessica Maurer

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THE UNCODE: TIA MADDEN

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