Landmark landscape exhibition to visit Orange

Orange Regional Gallery will open its doors to one of the most significant exhibitions of the Australian landscape in recent memory on Saturday 9 July.

‘Country & Western: landscape re-imagined’,….. touring from Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, assembles depictions of the Australian landscape in a variety of mediums by some of the nation’s leading artists.

Artists featured in the exhibition include esteemed figures such as John Olsen, Rover Thomas, William Robinson, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Ricky Maynard, Tim Johnson, Euan Macleod, Angelina George, and Tate Adams.

Orange City Council's Services committee chair Cr Ron Gander said it was exciting the Orange Regional Gallery had secured a leading touring exhibition of this calibre. “People sometimes think they have to travel great distances to see the country’s top artists and their works,” Cr Gander said. “But residents have these opportunities practically in their own backyard.”

Shane Fitzgerald, Director of Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, said the exhibition “featured a captivating and moving collection of Australian landscape artworks, which when combined, paint a true picture of the beauty, harshness, and scale of our country, as well as the rapid changes we are witnessing.”