The Natural World

Paintings by Joanne Sisson

Sculpture

by

Jane du Rand

September 1 - September 28, 2025

Salt Contemporary 33-35 Hesse Street Queenscliff, Victoria

Front: Joanne Sisson, The First Peony 2025, acrylic on canvas, 92x198cm

Left: Jane Du Rand, Suikerbos ek will jou he (sugarbush I want you) 2025, Glazed porcelain, 29x21x21cm

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Paintings by JOANNE SISSON

Sculpture by

JANE DU RAND

JOANNE SISSON

Over recent years the focus of my work has centred on still-life painting. Indigenous and non-indigenous plants sit side by side in many of my artworks. Many plants are gathered from my rather unruly garden. The elegance of twinning vines and bending grasses speak of the gentle movement of plants as they unfold and grow.

These paintings depict a broad selection of glassware. Each vessel tells its own story. Some very old pieces come from our colonial past. Other vessels originated from a mid-20th century time-frame and others are very new, such as a deep green olive oil bottle that I find quite appealing.

As always, I hope to express, through my engagement with the natural world, a playful sense of inquiry, exploration and joyfulness.

Joanne Sisson, Gilt Glass and Flowering Plants, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 112x183cm | $6,800

Joanne Sisson, The First Peony, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 92x198cm | $6,400

Joanne Sisson, Summer Foliage II, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 102x122cm | $5,400

Joanne Sisson, The Tulips, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 102x122cm | $5,400

Joanne Sisson, Wildling I, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 102x122cm | $5,400

Joanne Sisson, Succulents and Wild Things, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 102x122cm | $5,400

Joanne Sisson, Tree Foliage III, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 102x112cm | $4,800

Joanne Sisson, Blue Glass I, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 102x112cm | $4,800

Joanne Sisson, Two Pardalotes, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 92x92cm | $4,200

Joanne Sisson, Banksia Spindilosa and Eucalypts, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 90x90cm | $4,200

Joanne Sisson, Summer Foliage I, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 90x90cm | $4,200

Joanne Sisson, Amber Glass with Succulents, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 82x82cm | $3,600

Joanne Sisson, The Ginger Lily II, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 81x81cm | $3,600

Joanne Sisson, Eucalyptus with Long Shadows, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 61x87cm | $3,400

Joanne Sisson, Blue Gum and Glass, 2025, oil on linen, 61x61cm | $2,800

Joanne Sisson, Eucalypt in Bud, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 33x33cm | $1,800

JANE DU RAND

South-African born, Ipswich-based Jane du Rand uses her art practice to document and better understand the world around her, building three-dimensional landscapes that feature the native flora and fauna she encounters while bushwalking west of Brisbane. Having made note of everything she’s seen while hiking, she recreates these scenes using a combination of ceramic and mosaic techniques.

Presented under glass cloches, they are reminiscent of the dioramas found in natural history museums –a contemporary sculptural version of the early natural history illustrations and specimen displays that existed in the Victorian era.

“A vase featuring the pairing of a flowering banksia - drawn from 18th century botanical illustrations - with two soft toned rosellas facing downwards as if in mid farewell. Painted in a consciously pale palette the work speaks to the quiet disappearance of native beauty in the face of environmental degradation. What once thrived in abundance is now rendered with fragility - not gone, but fading.”

Jane du Rand, Beautifully Fading Away, 2025, Glazed ceramic, 42x18x18cm | $2,800

“A vase featuring eucalyptus flowers and leaves paired with musk lorikeets - once again drawn from 18th and 19th century illustration, painted in a pale palette, with colours consciously not representing real life.”

Jane du Rand, Eucalyptus, 2025, Glazed ceramic on a glass mosaic base, 46x27x27cm | $4,200

“A vase featuring a protea and a Cape Sugarbird with the lines from the Afrikaans song “Suikerbos ek will you he” pressed into the base. Suikerbos is a term of endearment in the Afrikaans language.”

Jane du Rand, Suikerbos ek will jouhe (sugarbush I want you), 2025, Glazed porcelain, 29x21x21cm | $2,600

This vase is based on a poem by the poet Hollie McNish. I loved the poem and wanted to make a vase with these words. Holly has given me permission to use the lines from her poem and to print the poem in full to be displayed next to the work.

ofter, I forget

That ladybirds can fly, and that leaves are gulping sunlight and that sunlight hot today upon our tingling skin was born in outer space, warming us, now, extra-terrestially, drying up the mint leaves we will soon drop into water when it rains. often, i forget that rain is just regurgitated rivers, rivers just regurgitated rain, regurgitated ocean, my breathing just regurgitated breathing, screaming just regurgitated laughter, often, i forget that tradition is just something started somewhere, by some people, everchanging, that war is a decision, that soldiess are salaried, that no government has ever paid its people to go to peace. in the world, there are around five thousand different species of ladybird, over sixty thousand species of trees; surely that means something

Jane du Rand, Often, I forget that ladybirds can fly, 2025, Red earth clay, semi glazed, 36x20x20cm | $2,800

A vase featuring cicadas hiding in the overflowing petals of a Gymea lily based on 18th and 19th century botanical illustration.

Jane du Rand, Cicadas and Gymea lily, 2025, Red earth clay, semi glazed, 42x22x22cm | $3200

A little bud vase based on 18th and 19th century botanical illustration.

Jane du Rand, Mountain Devil, 2025, Glazed ceramic, 31x16x16cm | $980

The Natural World

Paintings by Joanne

Sisson

Sculpture by Jane du

Rand

September 1 - September 28, 2025

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