(E)SCAPE: BENJAMIN | FENELEY | McILROY | McKENZIE | OLSEN | QUICK

5 - 30 August 2025
Overview
E(scape) delves into the escapist tendencies embedded within landscape painting, examining how artists have used the natural world as both a literal and metaphorical refuge.
E(scape) delves into the escapist tendencies embedded within landscape painting, examining how artists have used the natural world as both a literal and metaphorical refuge. landscape painting has, in some traiditons,   served as a means to transcend the mundane or harsh realities of life, offering viewers an idealised or imaginative space in which to escape. this idelaised space, is not, one always of 'sunshine and rainbows' in the nieve way; but also a projected emotiive or surrealist space  This exhibition explores how different artists, have deployed the landscape-as-escape through their depictions of nature, from romantic vistas of untouched wilderness to brooding representations of landscape that suggest an inner world of emotional toil, to abstracted lakes that point towards an idealised, birds eye view of our nature.
Works
  • John Olsen Lake Eyre: The Edge of the void, 2021 Gouache, watercolour and pastel on paper 96 x 80 cm, 102 x 98 cm (framed)
    John Olsen
    Lake Eyre: The Edge of the void, 2021
    Gouache, watercolour and pastel on paper
    96 x 80 cm, 102 x 98 cm (framed)
  • Alexander McKenzie The Collectors Garden, 2020 Oil on linen 122 x 122cm
    Alexander McKenzie
    The Collectors Garden, 2020
    Oil on linen
    122 x 122cm
  • Jason Benjamin Don't you think it's time (New Paltz NY), 2006 Oil on linen 122 x 183 cm
    Jason Benjamin
    Don't you think it's time (New Paltz NY), 2006
    Oil on linen
    122 x 183 cm
  • Andrew McIlroy D'Entrecasteaux Channel, from Bruny Island, 2024 Oil on canvas 198 x 198 cm, 200 x 200 cm (framed)
    Andrew McIlroy
    D'Entrecasteaux Channel, from Bruny Island, 2024
    Oil on canvas
    198 x 198 cm, 200 x 200 cm (framed)
  • Louise Feneley Call of the Sea, 2024 Oil on Belgian linen 82cm x 138cm
    Louise Feneley
    Call of the Sea, 2024
    Oil on Belgian linen
    82cm x 138cm
  • Matthew Quick Rush Hour, 2025 Oil on Italian Linen 111.2 x 197.0 cm
    Matthew Quick
    Rush Hour, 2025
    Oil on Italian Linen
    111.2 x 197.0 cm