As a leading independent art curator, his wide-ranging exhibitions and publications focusing on the inter-connected themes of landscape and culture in the Australian experience have met with both public and critical acclaim.
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Upcoming Exhibition:
7 March – 3 May 2026
2005 acrylic, charcoal & gesso on canvas 200 x 540cm
courtesy Utopia Art Sydney
Holding Ground is a timely exhibition as the world lurches towards anenvironmental eclipse. The exhibition will reflect how localised landscape values have the potential to open a wiser, urgent discussion on the fate of Mother Earth and our place in it. It is time now to put an end to climate change denial and confront the looming climate catastrophe in front of us.
The exhibition focuses on the state on New South Wales with a selection of paintings, ceramics, sculpture, photography and textiles that focus on the disparate state of the region’s natural systems along with the impact of unfettered industrialisation. The collection of works will reveal the rich inter-connections arising from the demanding business of processing physical space in today’s challenging environment.
Works from leading Australian artists with deep connections to various regions of New South Wales include Badger Bates, Sophie Cape, Lucy Culliton, Jo Davenport, Julie Harris, Janet Laurence, Euan Macleod, Mac Maderski, Idris Murphy, Angus Nivison, Lae Oldmeadow, Julie Paterson, Simon Reece, Mark Seiffert, Imants Tillers, John R Walker and John Wolseley.
The aim of Holding Ground is to compel viewers to re-think and look more closely into the complex makeup of the places they inhabit: places that sustain the fragile web of life. The future is here: The exhibition is a timely recognition of what matters and what needs to be held close.
Exhibition Curator: Gavin Wilson
feature image: IMANTS TILLERS Prayer for Rain, 2020, synthetic polymer paint, gouache on 54 canvas boards, nos. 107776–107829, 228.6 x 213.3cm. Courtesy Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery Sydney.