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Exhibitions

Wednesday 30 September
2026

Adam Elliot

Making Memoir of a Snail

ACMI
Thursday 8 August – Sunday 1 November

Group Show

EMERGENCE[Y]

Melbourne Science Gallery
Saturday 6 June – Saturday 5 December

Christopher Pyett

Years of Colour

McClelland Gallery
Saturday 27 June – Sunday 25 October

Alison Tedesco

Street Stories

McClelland Gallery
Saturday 27 June – Sunday 25 October

Group Show

Chogh چوغ

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Wednesday 1 July – Saturday 24 October

Heidi Schoenheimer

Around Here

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Wednesday 1 July – Saturday 24 October

Group Show

Requiem in Power (RIP)

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Wednesday 1 July – Saturday 24 October

Sally Ann McIntyre

Post-extinction huia soundings

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Wednesday 1 July – Saturday 24 October

Group Show

Watch These Hands

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 4 July – Sunday 25 October

Group Show

Views and Vistas of the Valley

Incinerator Gallery
Saturday 18 July – Saturday 31 October

Desire Moheb Zandi

Songs

Australian Tapestry Workshop
Thursday 23 July – Saturday 3 October

Group Show

Inside the Mirage

TarraWarra Museum of Art
Saturday 25 July – Sunday 1 November

Brassaï

Secret Paris

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 25 July – Sunday 15 November

Group Show

Truth Telling Display

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Wednesday 5 August – Saturday 19 December

Group Show

language to reach with

West Space
Saturday 22 August – Saturday 24 October

Amanda Johnson

Enclosure Acts: New Landscapes

Boom Gallery
Thursday 13 August – Saturday 5 September

"Enclosure Acts evokes the long-term environmental impacts of landgrabs and old-growth forest clearance, asking how landscape painting might symbolically ‘enclose’ and protect remnant forests. I live and work on Gadubanud Country, Cape Otway, on a Landcare property that has been decimated by introduced koalas and invasive plants. This country is front of mind when I enter the studio or undertake field trips.

My recent paintings of Gadubanud Country and Lutruwita evoke theatricalised, romantic forest grandeur while pointing to ecological disturbance in plain sight – depleted understoreys, soil compaction, ravaging blackberry, gorse and sweet pittosporum. These works stop short of evoking idealised wilderness vistas, though field trips to old-growth forests are an important part of my process. Here, forests often form seductive, painted curtains – forests that may or may not exist – framing a stripped central plain. Uncanny palettes subvert the gentle, optimistic skies typical of early colonial artists such as Streeton, Piguenit and von Guerard, whose images of settler holdings often concealed impacts of invasive species, extractive economies and the dispossession of First Nations peoples. As part of my studio process, I also map the vegetation profiles of early colonial paintings against contemporary ecological profiles, so that each work becomes a mash-up of past and present. For me, these beautiful colonial landscapes must now be responded to as images of erasure. The hyperreal sunsets are nothing if not cautionary. I think of each painting as a theatre of environmental mourning."

Location

Boom Gallery
41 Pakington Street, Geelong West VIC 3218, Australia

Date

Thursday 13 August – Saturday 5 September

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Website

https://boomgallery.com.au/blogs/exhibition/amanda-johnson-enclosure-acts-new-landscapes

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Exhibitions

Wednesday 30 September
2026

Adam Elliot

Making Memoir of a Snail

ACMI
Thursday 8 August – Sunday 1 November

Group Show

EMERGENCE[Y]

Melbourne Science Gallery
Saturday 6 June – Saturday 5 December

Christopher Pyett

Years of Colour

McClelland Gallery
Saturday 27 June – Sunday 25 October

Alison Tedesco

Street Stories

McClelland Gallery
Saturday 27 June – Sunday 25 October

Group Show

Chogh چوغ

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Wednesday 1 July – Saturday 24 October

Heidi Schoenheimer

Around Here

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Wednesday 1 July – Saturday 24 October

Group Show

Requiem in Power (RIP)

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Wednesday 1 July – Saturday 24 October

Sally Ann McIntyre

Post-extinction huia soundings

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Wednesday 1 July – Saturday 24 October

Group Show

Watch These Hands

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 4 July – Sunday 25 October

Group Show

Views and Vistas of the Valley

Incinerator Gallery
Saturday 18 July – Saturday 31 October

Desire Moheb Zandi

Songs

Australian Tapestry Workshop
Thursday 23 July – Saturday 3 October

Group Show

Inside the Mirage

TarraWarra Museum of Art
Saturday 25 July – Sunday 1 November

Brassaï

Secret Paris

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 25 July – Sunday 15 November

Group Show

Truth Telling Display

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Wednesday 5 August – Saturday 19 December

Group Show

language to reach with

West Space
Saturday 22 August – Saturday 24 October

Amanda Johnson

Enclosure Acts: New Landscapes

Boom Gallery
Thursday 13 August – Saturday 5 September

"Enclosure Acts evokes the long-term environmental impacts of landgrabs and old-growth forest clearance, asking how landscape painting might symbolically ‘enclose’ and protect remnant forests. I live and work on Gadubanud Country, Cape Otway, on a Landcare property that has been decimated by introduced koalas and invasive plants. This country is front of mind when I enter the studio or undertake field trips.

My recent paintings of Gadubanud Country and Lutruwita evoke theatricalised, romantic forest grandeur while pointing to ecological disturbance in plain sight – depleted understoreys, soil compaction, ravaging blackberry, gorse and sweet pittosporum. These works stop short of evoking idealised wilderness vistas, though field trips to old-growth forests are an important part of my process. Here, forests often form seductive, painted curtains – forests that may or may not exist – framing a stripped central plain. Uncanny palettes subvert the gentle, optimistic skies typical of early colonial artists such as Streeton, Piguenit and von Guerard, whose images of settler holdings often concealed impacts of invasive species, extractive economies and the dispossession of First Nations peoples. As part of my studio process, I also map the vegetation profiles of early colonial paintings against contemporary ecological profiles, so that each work becomes a mash-up of past and present. For me, these beautiful colonial landscapes must now be responded to as images of erasure. The hyperreal sunsets are nothing if not cautionary. I think of each painting as a theatre of environmental mourning."

Location

Boom Gallery
41 Pakington Street, Geelong West VIC 3218, Australia

Date

Thursday 13 August – Saturday 5 September

Save to Calendar

Website

https://boomgallery.com.au/blogs/exhibition/amanda-johnson-enclosure-acts-new-landscapes

All exhibition content on this website has been sourced from the exhibiting gallery’s website or provided by other art enthusiasts. We do not own or seek to own any of this material. If you are concerned about any misuse of your content, please let us know here.

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