Andrew MCILROY published a fabulous article titled ‘Land in Layers: Repositioning Landscape in Contemporary Australia’ on his Substack blog: THIS ART LIFE, which is available to read below. The article mentions Lucy Culliton, Alan Daniel Jones and Ross Laurie’s approach to landscape, and landscape painting within the broader currents of contemporary Australian art.
‘Landscape painting remains one of the most publicly visible forms of Australian art. What it chooses to show, and what it leaves aside, shapes how environments are understood and valued. These artists refuse simplification. They neither sentimentalise land nor aestheticise damage. Instead, they register the accumulated effects of use, change and duration with restraint.’
Thank you to Andrew for his considerate articulation of the contemporary movements of Australian landscape painting.
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