Dividing Range

Taking its title from that of a featured work by North-East Victoria based artist Kim Westcott, Dividing Range brings together a selection of photographs, prints and paintings from the Museum’s collection loosely connected by their explorations of human relationships to land and light.

A 1969 abstract painting by Robin Wallace-Crabbe flaring yellow sits between more recent large-scale photographic works by James Farley and Justine Varga produced through direct exposure of paper and film. Across the room a small black and white 1978 photograph by Mark Hinderaker of a television broadcasting a thermonuclear explosion depicts intensely concentrated energy and light.

Elsewhere larger photographic works by Brook Andrew, Mark Kimber and Sam Shmith illustrate ways in which landscapes of apparent grandeur are constructed for rhetorical purposes by artists, whether through reusing historical photographs, staging fabricated settings for the camera or digitally generating a scene. Gathered at the heart of the exhibition are a set of works by artists including Fiona Hall, Gloria Petyarre and Ingeborg Tyssen conveying more intimate relationships to place, both discrete gardens settings or wider Country.

With: Brook Andrew, James Farley, Silvi Glattauer, Fiona Hall, Marion Hardman, Mark Hinderaker, Robert Jacks, Mark Kimber, Gloria Petyarre, Sam Shmith, Imants Tillers, Ingeborg Tyssen, Stephanie Valentin, Justine Varga, Robin Wallace-Crabbe and Kim Westcott.