Despard Gallery is proud to present Of Peaks And Tides, highly anticipated solo exhibition by early Career Tasmanian artist Harrison Bowe. In his third solo exhibition, Bowe continues his painterly exploration of the remote wildness that defines Tasmania’s rugged south-west. bringing together a new suite of paintings that recall Bowe’s most recent expedition hiking across its mountainous ranges and along its untouched coastline.
Captured within the surface of each work is Bowe’s experience of navigating these terrains firsthand, reflecting on its grandeur and tough conditions. Applied with various palette knives, thick gestures of oil paint trace the contours of the landscape and its rocky topographies, contrasted against immersive gradients of tone and light. Bowe’s unique use of paint captures the underlying temperament of the landscape, seen within the fading threads of light stretching across distant peaks and rhythmic waves slowly eating away at the jagged coastline. As such, Bowe’s paintings not only capture the unique form and presence of the Tasmanian landscape, but it also allows us to feel its significance.