Suellen Symons Time and Sensibility

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ArtHere Exhibition Space 2013

As Australians, the narrative of the figure in the landscape is embedded in our psyche. It is a timeless meditation that dwells in both mythology and reality, a collective memory nurtured through the paintings of Frederick McCubbin and Tom Roberts -  images that inserted the body into the overwhelming scale of our landscape with a kind of melancholic isolation.