Shifting Ground - Landscape from the Collection

An exhibition of over 50 works traversing both traditional and contemporary perspectives of landscape art, including works which present First Nations stories of place, climate change and environmental impacts, the effects of colonisation, settlement and the many approaches artists take to capture different fragments, reflections and narratives within landscapes. The exhibition investigates these notions with works from the First Nations, Colonial, Early Australian, and Contemporary collections including drawing, painting, prints, ceramics, photography and film. Including works by Brook Andrew, Will Ashton, Tanya Baily, Walter Batarinja, Stephen Bird, Arthur Boyd, Beryl Brierley, Ben Brown, Nicholas Caire, Elisabeth Cummings, Cheryl Davison, Max Dupain, Stephen Dupont, Julie Freeman, A. H. Fullwood, Pamela Griffith, Hans Heysen, Garry Jones, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Rosemary Laing, Colin Lanceley, D. McBean, Alice McKenzie, Conrad Martens, Clem Millward, Rosella Namok, Claud Pannka, Georgina Parsons, David Preston, Herbert Raberat, Joan Ross, Reggie Ryan, Evan Salmon, Jessie E Scarvell, Joseph Selleny, Jan Senbergs, Sarah Smuts-Kennedy, Sophie Steffanoni, Eugène von Guérard, Toni Warburton, Guy Warren, Fred Williams, James Willis, Trish Woods, and Anne Zahalka. Page image: Anne Zahalka, You Are On Dharawal Land!, 2020, Archival pigment ink print on rag paper, 115cm x 161cm, Purchased 2022