How artists represent the world around them often intimately reflects their relationship to space. To encounter a landscape through the eyes of an artist is to see the familiar transformed - ordinary places become charged with memory, atmosphere and emotion, while even the smallest of details are given new meaning.

Ann Howie 'After Tennyson'

This curation of works explores the many ways artists interpret the land around them, drawing inspiration from the natural world, and translating it into something visually poetic. Some works are expansive and energetic, while others are quiet and contemplative, yet each offers a distinct vision. In John Olsen’s vibrant vision of Sydney Harbour the iconic bridge becomes almost secondary to the sweeping rhythm and movement of the water itself. The work feels alive - animated by Olsen’s unmistakable sense of play and observation.

Warren Cooke 'Land and Sea #50'

Warren Cooke 'Land and Sea #57'

For many artists, depictions of local landscapes are inseparable from lived experience. We see this in the works of Warren Cooke, whose signature reduction woodcut style captures the contours of the Mornington Peninsula with warmth and quiet familiarity. Curves of sandy coastline and scattered fragments of land emerging through water are rendered with an ease that speaks to careful observation.

Damon Kowarsky 'north tawton IV'

Damon Kowarsky 'Richmond [naarm]'

Art can also act as a kind of visual map - creating moments of recognition and déjà vu, even in places we may never have visited ourselves. For Damon Kowarsky, travel is central to his life and practice. Working both in Australia and overseas, his works distill impressions of places both foreign and familiar, forever filtering them through his distinctive artistic lens.

Jim Pavlidis 'Burnouts'

Arch Cuthbertson 'Robe W.A.'

Together, these works remind us that landscapes are never neutral. They are shaped by perception, memory and experience. Through the artist’s eye, the world around us becomes something richer, stranger and more alive - transformed not only by what is seen, but by what is felt.

Sophia Szilagyi 'Many Moons Ago'