HOME Exhibition Selected Contemporary Works
HOME Exhibition
Selected Contemporary Works
December 27th, 2025 - January 11th, 2026
Salt Contemporary 33-35 Hesse Street
Queenscliff, Victoria
Front: Greta Laundy, Shifting Sands (detail), 2025, acrylic on canvas, 120x150cm
Left: Gus Leunig, Blue Interlude (detail) 2025, acrylic on canvas 57x73cm
EXHIBITING ARTISTS
Graeme Altman
Greta Laundy
Gus Leunig
Jill Noble
Kay Gibson
Peter Watts
Robyn Rankin
Romany Mollison
Sue Anderson
EXHIBITING ARTISTS
ABOUT
The beginning of a new calendar year lends to a period of reflection and contemplation. Often spent pondering our surroundings, comparing where we are now with where we would like to be. For many, thoughts can meander towards memories and sensations of comfort, familiarity, and ‘home’.
‘HOME’ a group exhibition featuring select Salt Contemporary artists, explores varying interpretations of this notion. By way of comforting landscapes, charming still life, and odes to the natural environment - artists express their unique interpretation and meaning of home.
Nestled amidst a period of reflection and new beginnings, HOME reminds us to keep what we truly treasure close to us as we move ever forward. If we reflect and look closely, home is never too hard to find.
GRAEME ALTMAN
Graeme Altmann has earned widespread recognition for his evocative and expansive landscapes. He completed a Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts) in 1989, majoring in painting, before pursuing a Postgraduate Degree in Painting at Monash University under the mentorship of Phillip Hunter.
During this time, he was scouted by Sydney gallery director Chandler Coventry, leading to his debut solo exhibition at Coventry Gallery. He has since held numerous solo exhibitions in both Sydney and Melbourne’s Flinders Lane Gallery.
Current works explore pathways and formations of our coastal fringe, expressing thoughts and emotions as we walk the Moonah landscape.
Graeme Altman, Low Tide, 2025, oil on canvas, 63x92cm | $3,300
Left: Graeme Altman, Autumn Light, 2025, oil on canvas, 76x76cm | $3,200
Right: Graeme Altman, Beach Path, 2025, oil on linen, 62x62cm | $2,400
Right: Graeme Altman, Foreshore, 2025, oil on canvas, 74x64cm | $2,800
Left: Graeme Altman, Steps, 2025, oil on canvas, 80x71cm | $3,200
GRETA LAUNDY
Shifting Sands is a collection of five works exploring my emotional response to the landscapes of my home in South Australia, particularly the waterways of the mid and south coast and hills surrounding Adelaide.
Water, a vital life-giving element, is a personal symbol of emotional resilience and fluidity which I’ve used in these works to suggest multiple levels or viewpoints throughout the compositions. Just like water itself, colours and shapes seemingly shift and dissolve as they move across the canvas in soft, transparent, and luminous glazes. Undulating hills and valleys provide movement, reflecting the inspiration
I find in my immediate surroundings of the Adelaide foothills and my rural childhood home of Kangaroo Island. These landscapes are not only physical, but also creative, emotional, and spiritual touchstones.
Greta Laundy, Shifting Sands I, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 120x150cm | $5,800
Greta Laundy, Shifting Sands II, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 120x120cm | $4,800
Greta Laundy, Shifting Sands III, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 120x120cm | $4,800
Greta Laundy, Shifting Sands IV, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 100x100cm | $ 3,800
Greta Laundy, Shifting Sands V, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 100x100cm | $3,800
GUS LEUNIG
Gus Leunig encapsulates a harmonious depiction of nature, animals, and life, through the unplanned intertwining of nature and landscape. Existing in complex worlds, his seemingly simplistic figures align with whimsical narratives and stories on canvas, representing intricate maps from the atlas of his imagination.
Based in Avenel, a small town in country Victoria, Leunig carefully crafts journeys through a colourful world of observation and playful insight. His organic and meandering line-work belies a meticulous eye for detail, leaving the viewer with fulfilment and intrigue. Leunig’s vibrant colour palette compliments these resolved details, illustrating the playful nature of the whimsical stories he conveys. A new day or mood from the eye of the beholder can allow different storylines to unfold.
Gus Leunig, Crimson Interlude, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 122x122cm | $8,900
Gus Leunig, Blue Interlude, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 122x122cm | $8,900
Right: Gus Leunig, A Secret Place, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 61x76cm | $3,900
Left: Gus Leunig, Under Stars, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 92x122cm | $7,900
JILL NOBLE
I enjoy playing with composition, in particular simplifying and editing. My narrative often comes from landscape, both the visual experience and the feeling.
Reduced and stylised, my process favours an uncluttered compositional order, often translated into playful arrangements of shorthanded imagery.
My focus is on finding resolve and clarity within my own personal picture-making language. The aesthetic values of harmonising colour and composition direct my decisions in resolving these pictorial equations.
Jill Noble, Horseshoe Creek, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 113x123cm | $4,900
Jill Noble, Tractor Resting, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 113x123cm | $4,900
Jill Noble, Departure, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 100x110cm | $4,200
KAY GIBSON
For most of my life I have lived in the Margaret River region in the beautiful south-west of Western Australia. Inspiration for my art comes from bushwalking, sketching outdoors and observing the natural environment of the many places I visit. Using a combination of drawing, painting and printmaking I endeavour to marry my materials with my subject.
Some of my current work is on paper which I blind emboss with endemic plants. I paint my subject in gouache and then use a ‘fumagé’ technique, smoking and adding soot to the paper from a burning candle. Reduction drawing is used to create the final image, mostly of birds and other wildlife. The imprint of the plant and the fumagé relates to fire and regeneration, a constant process in the environment.
In other work I combine painting and traditional etching methods to portray my love of nature. I am fortunate to live and work in a place where I can experience the everchanging natural world
Left: Kay Gibson, Masked Owl Midnight, 2025, gouache and fumage on embossed Hahnemuhle paper 105x82cm, | $4,900
Right: Kay Gibson, Into the Night, 2025, gouache and fumage on embossed Hahnemuhle paper 105x82cm, | $4,900
PETER WATTS
“My work explores the profound interplay of light and shadow within the landscapes of Victoria, Australia. I am drawn to those moments when piercing light breaks through heavy clouds, illuminating the land with a fleeting, almost supernatural clarity. Through my brush, I seek to capture the cold, wet atmosphere of the region—its rugged beauty, its mystery, and the tension between nature’s quiet serenity and its untamed forces. My paintings invite the viewer to step into these moments, to feel the chill in the air, and to witness the dance between darkness and light in the ever-changing skies.”
– Peter Watts
Peter Watts, born in 1963 in Horsham, Victoria, is an acclaimed Australian artist known for capturing the transient interplay of light and shadow in Southern Australia’s skies and rural landscapes. His mastery of these ephemeral moments earned him finalist spots in the prestigious Glover Prize in 2021, 2022, and 2024, as well as the “People’s Choice” award in 2022. That same year, he won “Best in Show” at the Camberwell Art Prize in Melbourne.
Peter Watts, River Awakening, 2025, acrylic on linen, 168x137cm | $12,800
Peter Watts, Stormy Warmth, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 137x112cm | $8,400
Peter Watts, River Living, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 101x91cm | $6,800
ROBYN RANKIN
Central to my work is a celebration of Australians and our association to the places we call home.
These works contemplate the intricate connection we share with our surroundings, reflecting on the unique blend of nostalgia, identity, and a deep sense of place that defines our Australian experience.
My art is an invitation to smile at the absurd, to flirt with nostalgia, and reflect on the unexpected; I hope to inspire a playful exploration of the viewer’s own memories and associations, a playful tug between the familiar and the fantastical.
Although I want to create a restful place, I think I tend to achieve the exact opposite.
Left: Robyn Rankin, A Fine Society, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 63x63cm | $2,300
Right: Robyn Rankin, Mixed Metaphors, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 63x63cm | $2,300
ROMANY MOLLISON
Romany Mollison is a landscape painter whose atmospheric works convey the vast beauty and emotional resonance of her surrounds.
In recent years, Mollison’s paintings have focused on the exquisite landscape around her home in the Adelaide Hills, depicting both the untamed natural world – morning fogs, rolling hills, and misty valleys, silvery winter light emerging from heavy rain clouds –and the pastoral presence – ghostly gums standing silent in vast paddocks, glimpses of distant roads and farmhouses appearing through the fog.
Captivated by the emotive qualities of changing light, shifting seasons, and the movement of shadow and mist, Mollison continues the tradition of classical landscape painting in her continuous quest to capture magical moments of stillness. From intimate postcard sized paintings to large-scale, immersive paintings, Mollison’s works elicit a sense of quiet, restorative calm.
Romany Mollison, Here with You, 2025, oil on paper, 63x48cm | $3,600
Romany Mollison, Hometime, 2025, oil on paper, 63x48cm | $3,600
Left: Romany Mollison, Secret Valley, 2025, oil on paper, 63x48cm | $3,600
Right: Romany Mollison, The Farm Trail, 2025, oil on paper, 63x48cm | $3,600
SUE ANDERSON
Expressionistic landscape painter, printer and ceramic artist Sue Anderson lives and works on Wadawurrung country, Victoria. Anderson’s unique visual language is inspired by days out in the Australian landscape absorbing, observing and drawing.
From her earliest immersions into the Big and Little Deserts, and the volcanic grassy plains of Point Cook, her landscapes have included the coasts, deserts and forests of Australia. Her love of the bush is equally balanced by her affinity for the sea.
Her artworks express her joy in witnessing the birds, plants and animals within these environments; celebrating their unique character as well as her concern seeing the destruction of the natural world caused by human impacts and development.
Sue Anderson, Wind Song, 2025, oil on linen, 110x90cm | $9,500
Sue Anderson, Homeland, 2025, oil on linen, 66x60.5cm | $4,500
Sue Anderson, Maritime, 2025, oil on board, 46x35.5cm | $1,800
HOME Exhibition Selected Contemporary Works
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