Rosalind LAWSON, JH loves GB true, from the series I am a driver on the Western Highway 2006, oil on cotton canvas, 140 x 82cm. 2007-25, Horsham Regional Art Gallery Collection, purchased through the Horsham Art Gallery Trust Fund, 2007.
Jo GRANT, Urn, from the series All prize winners paraded 2004, inkjet print on archival paper, 105 x 105cm. 2005-85, Horsham Regional Art Gallery Collection, purchased through the Horsham Art Gallery Trust Fund, 2005.
Janina GREEN, Mackenzie Falls 2000, hand-coloured silver gelatin photograph, 1154.2 x 96.5cm. 2019-10, Horsham Regional Art Gallery Collection, gift of the artist. 2019.
Does a landscape change depending on who is looking?
The exhibition Her view comprises paintings and photographs from the Horsham Regional Art Gallery collection that depict the Wimmera, Gariwerd and surrounding Country through the eyes of women artists.
Artists bring their own understandings, experiences and emotional resonances to the landscapes they encounter, shaping what we, as viewers, see. The works in Her view reveal the world around us as shaped by the memories, cultures and activities of women artists. Here, land is not simply a view, but a place continually seen, used, altered, marked and reimagined.
In the adjoining exhibition space, Horsham Regional Art Gallery has presented View from here: Highlights from the National Gallery collection, an exhibition of significant early colonial views of our local landscapes drawn from the National Gallery of Australia’s vast collection. On display at the Gallery for the past two years, View from here comprises works exclusively by male artists, reflecting the colonial perspectives of a particular time and place, and the land’s potential, uniqueness and ‘otherness’.
Her view offers another perspective. It acknowledges that landscape is neither static nor untouched: it is lived in, worked on, remembered, changed and culturally understood. Before View from here closes and the works return to Canberra in February 2027, Her view invites you to look at the country around us through the eyes of women artists Belinda Eckermann, Jo Grant, Janina Green, Gail Harradine, Rosalind Lawson, Alex Lyall and Melissa Powell, and consider the ongoing relationships we foster with the world around us, and the many histories and perspectives held within it.