Through multimedia, installation and image-making, the exhibition explores the tensions and connections between earth, sky and forest.
An Elemental Dialogue explores the symbolic relationship between earth, sky and forest: a charged space between light and shadow, order and wildness, consciousness and the unseen. Across mythological, cultural and philosophical traditions, these interconnected realms have shaped how humanity understands nature and itself.
Alyson Bell explores the liminal spaces between earth and sky, light and shadow, and the human and natural worlds. SKY Phenomena presents luminous photographs of clouds and atmospheric light, framed as portals to fleeting moments. In Between Earth & Sky, the enduring presence of Stonehenge is accompanied by circling crows, evoking the passage of time and the relationship between landscape and the natural world. Liminality, a meditative video installation, explores the female form through physical expression. Shifting light and shadow evoke forest mythology, states of transition and the porous boundaries between the human body and the natural world.
Anne Levitch explores the forest as an elemental structure connecting earth and sky. Trees mediate between darkness and light, the subterranean and the ethereal, continually transforming through growth, decay and renewal. Abstracted into symbolic lifelines that pierce the gallery architecture, her forest transcends its physical boundaries, evoking refuge, transformation and the enduring interconnectedness of the natural world.
Kathie Najar explores the atmosphere as both life-sustaining element and contested space. Surveillance questions ownership, responsibility and care through aerial map collages, while the Smoke Screen series reveals the environmental consequences of war beneath seductive cloudscapes. Cloud Nest, a hand-crocheted installation of silver cloud forms resting on a chaise lounge, offers a place of refuge between earth and sky, evoking home, belonging, memory and imagination.
Together, the artists consider earth, sky and forest not as separate domains but as interdependent forces. Through multimedia, installation and image-making, their works reveal the visible and invisible connections between landscape, atmosphere, human experience and the natural world.
About the artists
Alyson Bell is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice integrates traditional and digital production techniques across video, 2D animation, sound, and photo media. Her exploration of the moving image extends into projection, light and shadow, which she interweaves with three-dimensional materials to create poetic installations that reflect on metaphysical themes and the human connection to nature. With a background in film, art direction and design, Bell has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across Australia since 2014. In 2022, she received the North Sydney Art Prize Open Major Award for The Twilight Hour.
Kathie Najar is an artist and curator whose practice engages with immersive, site-specific visual experiences. Drawing inspiration from history, patterns in nature and Islamic geometry, her work investigates spatial and relational perception through a refined visual language. Najar works across collage, hand-painted tiles, sculpture, digital media and watercolour, and has been recognised through national awards and international residencies. Her exhibitions include Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award, HIDDEN at Rookwood, Eden Unearthed, and SWELL Sculpture Festival at Currumbin Beach.
Anne Levitch is a multi-disciplinary artist backgrounded in environmental design. Working across sculpture, photography, drawing and installation she explores human experience within a metaphysical frame of societal and cultural traditions, and mythical narrative structures both conceptually and materially. A diverse material language from both natural and industrial sources is central to her work. She constructs sculptures that in multiple become immersive environments. Shortlisted, since 2016, for prestigious national art awards in NSW, QLD, WA and Victoria, her work is held in significant private collections in WA and New Zealand.
Image: Collaborative image, an elemental dialogue, 2026, digital graphic
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