Light and Land brings together eight mid-career Australian artists—Sally Anderson, Bridie Gillman, Dan Kyle, Ross Laurie, Joanna Logue, Eleanor Louise Butt, Carbiene McDonald Tjangala, and Candy Nelson Nakamarra—who are reimagining landscape painting through abstraction. Rather than depict what is seen, these artists use painting to express memory, emotion, cultural heritage, and connection to place.
The exhibition highlights diverse relationships with the land, ranging from long-term observation of rural environments to inherited Dreaming stories. Works by Dan Kyle and Ross Laurie evoke the weight and mood of the bush, while Sally Anderson and Bridie Gillman draw on personal reflection. Joanna Logue and Eleanor Louise Butt layer colour and surface to suggest presence and seasonal change. Paintings by Candy Nelson Nakamarra and Carbiene McDonald Tjangala are grounded in Country, continuing ancestral systems of knowledge through contemporary abstraction.
