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David Middlebrook: Horizon perspective
Art Atrium 48 is proud to present David Middlebrook鈥檚 exhibition, 鈥楬orizon perspective鈥�, a contemplative body of work that reflects the artist鈥檚 enduring obsession with the Australian desert horizon. As an observer untethered to place, Middlebrook approaches the landscape not as someone of the land but as a stranger drawn to its beauty, brutality, and vast stillness. The exhibition features medium to large-scale oil paintings that explore tone and mark with meticulous intensity, drawing inspiration from the arid terrain north of Broken Hill. Accompanying these are a series of Nocturnes in sepia and wash, created en plein air, capturing flooded plains, mountain silhouettes, and the subtle tonal shifts of the evening skies. While landscapes elsewhere offer their own palettes and sensibilities, it is the Australian desert that brings Middlebrook a profound sense of calm and endless possibility. Traversing its vastness, he searches the physical world in pursuit of a deeper understanding of the interior landscape within the mind.
鈥淢y art takes me to deserts, for in deserts I can think. The overwhelming subtleties of tone, colour, form, beauty, brutality, the silence is noise, shadows haunted, earth stained, unbearable heat or penetrating cold, but delicious isolation and stillness. I鈥檓 a crude contemporary explorer searching the physical landscape to understand the landscape of the mind. Images of isolation and alienation. Other landscapes, in other countries, bring their own palette and sensibility, different, it鈥檚 the Australian Deserts that makes me calm with possibilities. I am someone who feels unconnected to any place. This is not my land, I鈥檓 a stranger, I observe, never connected by being country, I鈥檓 not of this land , I鈥檓 only an observer. I paint.鈥� 鈥� David Middlebrook
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Art Atrium 48 is proud to present David Middlebrook鈥檚 exhibition, 鈥楬orizon perspective鈥�, a contemplative body of work that reflects the artist鈥檚 enduring obsession with the Australian desert horizon. As an observer untethered to place, Middlebrook approaches the landscape not as someone of the land but as a stranger drawn to its beauty, brutality, and vast stillness. The exhibition features medium to large-scale oil paintings that explore tone and mark with meticulous intensity, drawing inspiration from the arid terrain north of Broken Hill. Accompanying these are a series of Nocturnes in sepia and wash, created en plein air, capturing flooded plains, mountain silhouettes, and the subtle tonal shifts of the evening skies. While landscapes elsewhere offer their own palettes and sensibilities, it is the Australian desert that brings Middlebrook a profound sense of calm and endless possibility. Traversing its vastness, he searches the physical world in pursuit of a deeper understanding of the interior landscape within the mind.
鈥淢y art takes me to deserts, for in deserts I can think. The overwhelming subtleties of tone, colour, form, beauty, brutality, the silence is noise, shadows haunted, earth stained, unbearable heat or penetrating cold, but delicious isolation and stillness. I鈥檓 a crude contemporary explorer searching the physical landscape to understand the landscape of the mind. Images of isolation and alienation. Other landscapes, in other countries, bring their own palette and sensibility, different, it鈥檚 the Australian Deserts that makes me calm with possibilities. I am someone who feels unconnected to any place. This is not my land, I鈥檓 a stranger, I observe, never connected by being country, I鈥檓 not of this land , I鈥檓 only an observer. I paint.鈥� 鈥� David Middlebrook
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