One of the highlights of Orange Regional Gallery’s winter and spring program will be an exhibition of recent paintings by Stuart Town-based artist Tim Winters.

We are delighted to welcome Tim back to the gallery and to have the opportunity to present new works that continue his long-held fascination with the Australian landscape. Tim’s previous survey exhibition ‘The Poetry of Space’ at the gallery in 2015 was curated by Dr Andrew Flatau and travelled to Maitland Regional Gallery.

The upcoming exhibition ‘The Divided Landscape’ will feature abstract interpretations of the land, from the fire-torn charcoal coated scrubby bush, to the salt lakes of the dried-out desert, and the formal human interventions of fenced farm dams.

The exhibition includes a new suite of paintings that reference the Pilliga Scrub. In creating this series Winters drew on the memory of visits to the area as well as a significant Tom Gleghorn image of the same subject that Winters grew up with and which continues to inform his path as an artist.

While these new works extend on Tim’s previous explorations of similar themes, there is a heightened intensity of colour, and a joyful sense of renewal.

‘The Divided Landscape’ will open at 6pm on Friday, August 16, and run until November 3..

Join me in conversation with Tim Winters at 5:30pm Friday, August 16, prior to the opening. Bookings are essential and available via the gallery’s website and Eventbrite. Entry is free.