Featured Image: Cathy Quinn, A Worthwhile Journey, 2022, oil on canvas, 94 x 124cm. Courtesy: the artist and Anthea Polson Art, Queensland.

“Turn with your back to the beauty of the water and the lure of the verdant, undulating landscape lies ahead. There’s a mystery as to what is hidden beyond the curving corners of the tracks and roads,” imparts Melbourne-based Cathy Quinn. The title of her current body of work, Hinterland, not only references actual places she once visited but also vistas the mind can kindle – “the possibilities of what lies beyond the mountains.”

For Quinn painting is a means of shifting consciousness from the troubles of the outside world. In the studio she awaits the moment when the fleeting recollections of her hinterland experiences again reveal themselves. “My sketched observations intertwine with imagination. Associated memories invite themselves into the space, where my landscapes grow before me,” she divulges. Quinn affirms that the element of chance is an integral part of her process.

Opening: Saturday, 28 May 4-6pm