GREG WOOD
A Path or Track Laid Down for Walking ( solo exhibition )

This collection of paintings were all made from Wood’s Chewton property, where he and his family now live and work having relocated from inner-Melbourne in 2021.  With Wood’s studio located alongside Forest Creek that flows alongside the Castlemaine Diggings National Heritage Track, these paintings give a sense of traversing through a landscape.  The use of visual cues such as meandering paths, steep tracks, and expansive planes, invite the viewer to follow their gaze through rocky outcrops, dense shrubs and expansive planes, to snatch peeks at distant mountaintops.  Here the air is heady, at times shrouding forms as if in a dense haze or fog seen through diffused light.  The Dja Dja Wurrung People, the traditional owners and custodians of this land are very much present here. 

As is characteristic of Wood’s atmospheric landscapes, these paths could also be anywhere.  The use of paths and tracks as a way to be with and in the landscape characterises an ancient and more immediate, deep and real connection to our natural world, a world that was travelled through on foot. The walking in one’s local area also recalls our own recent collective experiences during lockdowns where we were forced to be in the moment, whereby noticing the details of our walking paths and their immediate surrounds.

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