18 July – 6 September 2026
Despard Gallery would like to congratulate established artist Julienne Harris on being recently curated in to an exhibition at the Tamworth Regional Gallery.
Old Lands, New Visions brings together five renowned artists whose process led work responds to the unique qualities of the Australian landscape. Through bold gestures and vivid colours, Harris’ work translates the temperament of the land, responding to its energy and perpetually shifting elements.
There is a willingness throughout this exhibition to foreground the qualities of the materials used. Materials are engaged as gestural vehicles as each artist marks their response to the surrounding world. The materials speak about themselves as they form artworks. Metal, clay, ochre, grass tree resin, and paint reflect a sensory-emotive response to experience, providing a rhythm of place and time in preference to depicting more literal observations of land. In this manner, the primacy of experience is enabled and in turn able to be transferred to an audience.
The exhibition is presented at the Tamworth Regional gallery concluding on the 6 September.
Read more about the exhibition here.
TAMWORTH REGIONAL GALLERY 466 Peel Street Tamworth NSW 2340
