Colin Pennock’s new exhibition, Fragments of Suggested Landscapes, premiere’s at OTOMYS in Melbourne this week.
The gallery will present new work from 2026 inspired by a recent residency in Tasmania.
The exhibition opens on Thursday 12 November with a gallery walkthrough with the artist at 11am. We hope you can join us then to view this new collection.
“My work comes from an experience of landscape more than an attempt to describe it.
I am interested in something much older than us, where growth, decay and renewal are all present at the same time. The paintings move between space and non-space, between recognisable forms and the spaces around them, allowing things to emerge and disappear. A tree, a rock or a horizon may begin to take shape and then dissolve again, becoming difficult to distinguish from the space itself.
Through direct observation and memory, I am not trying to reproduce a particular view, but to hold onto the feeling of being somewhere and allow that feeling to change through painting. The spaces within the paintings are not empty; they hold atmosphere, distance and possibility. Ultimately, I am trying to make paintings that offer an experience rather than an illustration of a place — a space between the observed world and the inner world, between presence and absence, and between what can be recognised and what remains unknown.”
Colin Pennock, September 2026
Register your interest in the exhibition below.
Quiet Waterways, 2026, gesso, gouache & oil on board, 50 X 70 cm
