‘Stir crazy from the coronavirus lockdowns and with a show to paint, fellow artists Ondine Seabrook and Holly Greenwood and I made the 13 hour car trip from Sydney to Broken Hill. The car was filled to the brim, stocked up with paper, paints and camping gear. There’s something really special about hitting the road, the feeling of exhilaration and freedom. You enter this bizarre inbetween space where flashing scenery and whole towns become transitory. Places to pass by, instead of destinations in themselves. You look out and are grabbed by images and colours, your pulse stirred by whatever song is playing on the stereo. There are moments where oceans of blue foliage hold themselves in yellow soils and you see the dust turn from gold to red, trusses of sticks leaching into the sky.’ Bronte Leighton-Dore 2020
Bronte Leighton-Dore graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art from the National Art School in 2018. Highly Commended in the 2019 Paddington Art Prize, she was a finalist in the Wynne Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales the same year. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions since 2017, including the National Art School’s showing at Sydney Contemporary in 2019.
Image: Bronte Leighton-Dore ‘Silent Incarnation, Silverton 1’ 2020 oil on board 84 x 120 cm
