Stranglehold: Colonial Heat presents uncanny landscapes by Glover Prize and Hadley Prize shortlistee Amanda Johnson.
The artist’s Landcare home on Gadabanud country, Cape Otway, along with field trips to key sites where early Australian painters – Streeton, Von Guerard and Glover – painted, has inspired these vibrant, unsettling works.
Paintings bring colonial past into colonial present; invasive species interrupt the view, and exhilarating DayGlo palettes disturb serene sunsets. The resulting mashups of colonial imagery and wild colour fashion a strange and disquieting beauty.
Hours:
Tuesday – Friday: 12pm – 7pm
Saturdays: 12pm – 4pm
Admissions: free
Image Captions:
New Gloveresque: Tailings Lake, Tarkayna, Amanda Johnson, 2023, oil and acrylic polymer on canvas, 122 x 122cm
Stranglehold, Otways 122 x 155 cm, oil and acrylic on canvas, 2023.
Stranglehold, Otways: blackberry and sweet pittosporum 920 x 1560 cm, oil and acrylic on canvas, 2023
Detail: New Gloveresque: Tailings dam, Takayna. Triptych detail, 91 x 60 and 2 x 91 x 91 cm. Oil and acrylic on canvas, 2024.
