Her beauty and her terror

The Australian landscape can instil fear and inspire awe – it is an ecosystem that is entirely it’s own. The picture of Australia evoked by Dorothea Mackellar’s prose in ‘My Country’ still rings true more than 100 years later. She is a land that is beautiful and terrifying, she can be harsh just as she is nurturing.

For Her beauty and her terror contemporary artists explore the Australian landscape in its extremities, subtleties and forms to consider our connection to it.

Exhibiting artists: Anna Litwinowicz I Amber Hearn I Libby Harward I Charlotte Haywood I Jarrod Van Der Ryken I Polly Stanton I Merri Randell I Amy Joy Watson I Mandy Quadrio I Jane Burton I Katarina Vesterberg I Katrin Koenning | Yvonne Mills-Stanley | Samantha Lang

Exhibition developed by Moreton Bay Regional Council.

Image credit: Jane Burton, Motherland #6, 2008. Type C print on paper. Winner Moreton Bay Region Art Awards 2013, Moreton Bay Regional Council Art Collection