The Big Landscape 2026 - Group Exhibition

The Big Landscape brings together 17 contemporary artists whose practices expand and reimagine what “landscape” can be today. Featuring works by Mishka Ammann, Janet Ayliffe, Rod Bax, Gemma Rose Brook, Sally Deans, Siv Grava, Audrey Harnett, Jud Keresztesi, Christine Lawrence, Sarah McDonald, Craig Penny, Sophie Perez, Suzie Riley, Harry Sherwin, Chris Summer, Peter Watts, and Diana Wiseman, the exhibition moves across place, memory, abstraction, and environment. From intimate terrains to expansive visions, The Big Landscape invites viewers to experience landscape as both a physical and imaginative space.

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Mishka Ammann is a Kangaroo Island–based landscape artist whose expressive oil paintings capture the changing moods, colour, and atmosphere of the Australian landscape, informed by decades of observation and exhibition experience. 

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Janet Ayliffe is an Adelaide Hills–based artist whose intricate etchings draw on memory, family, and the landscapes of both Kangaroo Island and her surroundings, combining layered techniques with a deep sense of wonder for the natural world.

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Rod Bax is an established Australian artist with a career spanning over 50 years, known for his expressive paintings depicting South Australia’s south-east wetlands and his strong commitment to the natural environment.

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Gemma Rose Brook is an Australian painter based on Kaurna land, known for her bold, expressive works that explore embodied experiences of landscape and have been featured in major national and international exhibitions.

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Sally Deans is a South Australian artist based on the Fleurieu Peninsula, creating atmospheric landscapes that capture the region’s changing light, weather, and natural beauty.

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Siv Grava is an Australian artist known for her vivid, patterned oil landscapes that blend traditional techniques with a uniquely Australian perspective.

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Audrey Harnett is a Kangaroo Island–based artist whose acrylic landscapes, shaped by decades of observation and ecological restoration, capture the light, memory, and magic of the island’s unique environment.

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Jud Keresztesi is an Australian artist whose distinctive palette knife paintings combine oils, acrylics, and bronze powder to capture the movement and shimmer of water, sand, and natural landscapes.

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Christine Lawrence is a realist painter whose works capture the light, colour, and vast, varied landscapes of Western Australia, offering viewers moments of contemplation and wonder.

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Sarah McDonald is a South Australian artist renowned for her richly textured, palette knife oil landscapes that capture the light, colour, and emotion of the Australian outdoors, inviting viewers to connect with their own memories and experiences.

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Craig Penny, born in Mildura and based in Victoria, is an accomplished artist whose watercolour, gouache, and acrylic works reflect a lifelong passion for painting and illustration, blending traditional techniques with skills honed through decades of study, professional practice, and teaching.

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Sophie Perez is a British-born artist based on the Mornington Peninsula whose oil paintings, rooted in expressive drawing and careful observation, transform everyday landscapes into works that capture colour, light, texture, and the emotional resonance of place and memory.

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Suzie Riley is a South Australian artist whose layered, textured paintings capture the energy, colour, and balance of the Fleurieu Peninsula’s hills, bush, and seascapes, combining calligraphic mark-making and impasto techniques to convey her deep, intuitive connection to the natural landscape.

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Harry Sherwin is a Clare Valley–based artist working in watercolour, oils, mixed media, and collage, whose painterly, realistic works draw on the region’s seasonal colours and encompass landscapes, still life, portraits, and social themes.

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Chris Summer is a Fleurieu Peninsula based contemporary Australian artist whose meticulous, realistic still life paintings, inspired by the complexity of nature, capture fine detail, light, and texture with passion and precision.

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Peter Watts is a distinguished landscape artist from Horsham, Victoria, celebrated for capturing the shifting light, cloudscapes, and rural landscapes of Southern Australia, blending realism with subtle abstraction, and earning multiple accolades including the Glover Prize People’s Choice and Camberwell Art Prize Best in Show.

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Diana Wiseman is a Mount Gambier–based painter and printmaker whose intuitive, textural landscapes use colour, mark-making, and spontaneous techniques to evoke the essence of rural and natural environments.

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Exhibition Dates: 20 March - 19 April 2026

Location: Art Images Gallery, Adelaide