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In her forthcoming solo Disquiet, Kim Anderson turns her finely tuned, observational drawing practice toward the bushland surrounding her home on Dja Dja Wurrung country. Known for her meticulously rendered, psychologically charged imagery, Anderson draws out the uncanny beauty of the everyday landscape, capturing moments where stillness teeters on the edge of unease. These deeply atmospheric works echo with grief, awe, and quiet astonishment, revealing the emotional weight that lingers beneath the surface of familiar terrain. With exquisite detail, she maps a world in flux – one where shadow and light, sorrow and wonder coexist in fragile equilibrium.

'A feeling of disquiet underpins this suite of drawings, a meditation on the bush landscape around my home on Dja Dja Wurrung country. Shafts of winter sunlight prompt an uncomfortable reflection upon the temporality of all things. Long shadows through the mist transform a familiar scene into a ghostly, gothic tableau. A veil of stillness hides the reality of a natural world in crisis, giving the unnerving sensation of something otherworldly holding its breath, listening, or waiting.

There is a bittersweetness in the melancholy that accompanies my meditations, a poignant mix of darkness and light, joy and suffering, and grief and love evoking all of the complexities of human experience in these troubled times. The natural world is not so distant from our current human dilemmas, with its cycles of life and death, destruction and transformation, and decay and renewal. Beauty and violence, and fragility and brutality coexist in nature as they do in the human world. An acute awareness of the peril the earth is facing only heightens my feelings of awe and astonishment as the light pierces through the trees and stops me for a moment. Some things can only exist in paradox: just as darkness enables light to be visible, the tragedy of life is inescapably linked with its fleeting splendour.'  -Kim Anderson, Artist Statement