Exhibition | Rewilding by Samantha Nolan

FREE ADMISSION | GALLERY OPEN: Wednesday to Sunday 10.30am – 3.30pm | Closed Monday, Tuesday & Public Holidays

Rewilding is a series of mixed-media paintings by local artist Samantha Nolan which represent a longing for reconnection with nature and a desire to be lost or immersed in something other than the contemporary built or digital environment.

The works depict detailed realistic figures hiding and exploring within expressive, gestural and at times semi-abstract natural landscapes.

Referencing the media and style of Dennis Hopper, sole figures are painted with acrylic in a tight realistic style. The lone inhabitants have swapped their static stance and staid built environment and are instead, climbing through and becoming bound-up in a range of joyful almost Impressionistic natural landscapes.

Many of the landscapes are borrowed from the Crows Nest National Park and viewers are invited to rediscover the local bushland, rivers and waterfalls.

Exhibition on display 19 October - 13 November 2022.

Image: Samantha NOLAN / In the guava grove 2022 / oil and acrylic on canvas / 60 x 50cm / © Samantha Nolan