‘V70 Re Wilding the West’

Created after a one month residency in 2023 at Q Bank Gallery, Queenstown, Tasmania, V70 Re Wilding the West embodies my profound love of the Tasmanian landscape – the way it affects ones self on a visceral level, all your senses engaged and immersed as you stand in the presence of untameable reaches. I am in awe of the sheer irrepressibility of nature’s majestic energy, its mystery and density - its inhospitable power. Observing nature I am aware of how minuscule I am and how it will go on regardless of my existence. 

As an artist, I am consumed by this dialogue, the landscape turned upside down as nature fights back; I obsess over its dramatical shifts of the Re Wilding of our natural world, the complexity and sublime quality of country. In this painting I strive to paint the sensory subtleties of its atmosphere whilst immersed in the surge of this emotional, personal experience. By using memory I emulate something of this feeling, gestural in its physical landscape. Rather than depicting an exact location- ultimately encouraging the viewer to also contemplate what it is to be human, tiny and inconsequential in the face of nature’s vast, feral vigour.

This artwork was a finalist in the 2024 John Leslie Art Prize.

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