Julian Laffan, Road Ahead. Woodcut and mixed media on birch ply, 34.5 x 44.5cm. Courtesy: the artist and Beaver Galleries.

Julian Laffan’s exhibition captures moments in time on road journeys between Canberra, Braidwood and Narooma – a stretch of highway that has been imprinted on his memory. As Julian says, “…this exhibition acknowledges the familiar sites and changing light of the traveller heading home. Focusing on mountains, rivers and the highway itself I am connecting the personal experience with that of the formation of rituals and the recognisable places along the way.” In his hand carved and painted timber panels Julian also makes reference to the series of woodcuts depicting stations along the historic Tokaido Road Highway in Japan by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 – 1858).