new work at Sydney Contemporary 2026

Colin Pennock has work included in Arthouse Gallery’s presentation at this year’s Sydney Contemporary Art Fair.

The gallery will showcase work by several of it’s artists who took part in residencies at Fowlers Gap Research Station in 2024 and 2026.

“Describing a landscape in form is not the same as knowing it. Its appearance is not the experience of being there, nor what remains after a place has become part of you.

My time at Fowler’s Gap reaffirmed this for me. What I brought home was not so much a collection of finished paintings as an accumulation of conversations, silent moments and encounters with a landscape that was initially unfamiliar.

Over time, I have learned to trust uncertainty. A painting begins without knowing where it will lead. Rather than attempting to control the paint, I try to listen to what it is asking to become, allowing colour, rhythm and gesture to carry something of the internal experience. Some passages remain as fleeting gestures; others briefly resolve before dissolving again. I am drawn to the point where certainty gives way—where colour seems to become alive, and a single brushstroke can hold memory, light and emotion at once.

The paintings became a way of being present in this landscape: not descriptions of it, but resonances of an encounter. They formed through a conversation between looking and remembering, between the landscape as it was encountered and the experience of carrying it away.”

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