Amanda Penrose Hart’s Shepherds Lookout was selected as a finalist for the The Lethbridge Landscape Prize, and received HIGHLY COMMENDED!
The Prize welcomed all artistic interpretations of the Australian landscape—from the conventional to the unusual, and from the monumental to the intricate.
‘In paintings there is stillness. Looking at the landscape I’m just looking for peace. As a painter and a person, I try to go lightly – I’m careful in the landscape – I want to go lightly yesterday, today, and tomorrow. I want to go lightly as a meadow hawk.”
– Amanda Penrose Hart, 2025
Amanda painted the work in 2024, en plein air while along the Murrumbidgee river, Canberra.
Named after nearby property owners, Shepherd’s Lookout is the ACT’s northern-most viewing point of the Murrumbidgee River. For thousands of years, this stretch of the river has provided water, fish, yabbies and waterbirds to the Ngunnawal people, as well as being an important habitat for platypus and the endangered Macquarie Perch and Murray Cod. Black Cypress Pine (Callitris endlicheri) grows here on thin, rocky soil, with their winged seeds being a favourite food of Gang Gang Cockatoos.
She has done many paintings here, perched above the river on a council-supplied fabulous platform!
Location: Lethbridge Gallery, 136 Latrobe Terrace Paddington, QLD 4064
Exhibition Dates: 9 May 2025 – 25 May 2025
For more information, please visit this link
