‘Colin Pennock’s intimate works encourage you to look closely – amplifying the sense that you’re looking in on something from the outside. The experience focusses your attention – asking you to look carefully and delicately (if that’s a thing).

His larger works, by contrast, tend to envelope you – wrapping around you and drawing you into their space. Works at this end of the spectrum disrupt our tenuous place at the centre of things. These ways of seeing are not exclusive to extremities of scale, but they’re more easily recognised in those cases, and I like to think offer a gateway for training your eye in different and deliberate ways on dimensions in between.

Excerpt from the catalogue essay by Michael Brennan, Gallery Director, Noosa Regional Gallery