N/irgend-wo
24 - 30 August 2026
N/irgend-wo
At the core of Martina Latimer’s practice lies her sustained interest in the visual articulation of the unspoken, with the aim of creating images that can speak on their own. This body of work extends that enquiry through a deeper engagement with Jacques Derrida’s concept of the idiom as an event of untranslatability. The German exhibition title, translating loosely as “nowhere” and “somewhere,” foregrounds shifting and unstable meaning.
The works begin with photographs of the artist’s houseplants, familiar domestic forms. Through strategies of zooming and cropping, she isolates fragments that delineate the pictorial space. Gerhard Richter’s interrogation of the relationship between photography and painting has been formative for her approach. She translates selected images into paint through translucency, blur, and chromatic shifts. The result are deliberately ambiguous visual fields. Latimer’s painterly response remains intuitive rather than predetermined. The houseplant reappears as both specific and unplaceable, suspended between recognition and abstraction. In this in-between, the works gesture toward what cannot be fully said, but might be felt and transformed into new meaning. Latimer works predominantly in oil painting and printmaking. Her practice draws on figuration, portraiture, and landscape, using the indexical mark in printmaking to articulate the ineffable.
In the final year of her Bachelor of Visual Art studies at Queensland College of Art and Design, Latimer is currently preparing a body of work for the graduation exhibition in October.
- Martina Latimer
www.martinalatimer.art
Instagram: @martina_latimer_art
Photography: Louis Lim
The Definition Destroys the Essence, 2026, Oil on canvas, 88 x 66 cm, $950.
I am Not Sure, 2026, Oil on canvas, 91 x 91 cm, $1,250.
It is Never WhatYou Think it is, 2026, Oil on canvas, 87 x 106 cm, $1,200.
Sometimes, 2026, Oil on canvas, 137 x 96 cm, $1,800.
My Search in Between, 2026, Oil on canvas, 152 x 102 cm, $2,600.
To Name aThing is to Lose its Depth, 2026, Oil on canvas, 87 x 107 cm, $1,200.
Do I Ever Really Know?, 2026, Oil on canvas, 112 x 112 cm, $1,650.
Elusiveness II, 2026, Oil on canvas, 107 x 112 cm, $1,500.
Under the Quiet Mask of Reason Lies aThought too Heavy for Words to Carry, 2026, Oil on canvas, 97 x 137 cm, $2,100.
A Fleeting Moment, 2026, Oil on canvas, 112 x 86 cm, $1,200.
In Another World, 2026, Oil on canvas, 107 x 87 cm, $1,100.
I Discover Something Unheld, 2026, Oil on canvas, 138 x 138 cm, $3,500.
