Various ArtistsOn this Island, Meeting and Parting a suite of 11 prints housed in a clamshell folioedition of 24including prints by Lucy Culliton, Julie Harris, Judith Van Heeran, David Keeling, Steve Lopes, Euan Macleod, Idris Murphy, Jan Senbergs, Peter Simpson, Ann Thomson and Shonah Trescott57.0 x 76.0cm (22 7/16 x 29 15/16in)(sheet size)注脚PROVENANCEPrivate collection, SydneyThis print folio was created alongside a 2010 exhibition of paintings of the same name at Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, New South Wales and Bowen Gallery Wellington, New Zealand. In his catalogue introduction to the exhibition, curator Owen Craven says 'On This Island, Meeting and Parting is an exploration of process. It is as much about the final body of work as it is about how the works came about. This exhibition is the final part of a project that saw eleven prominent Australian painters led on a tour to New Zealand's North Island. ARTIST PROFILE, in conjunction with Winsor & Newton, invited the artists to participate in a landscape painting expedition — extracting the artists from their studios and asking them to respond to an unfamiliar territory, into which they were taken, in their own unique way.The tour took in the extremities of the island, exploring the east Wairarapa coast before heading to the island's volcanic centre, Mount Ruapehu. A vast difference in terrain, climate and topography meant everyday was an opportunity for the artists to see something new. An unfamiliar landscape brings to the surface the fundamental elements of looking and observing. As the days progressed, the artists sketched and painted en plein air — at times by themselves but often in little groups. The new and unfamiliar landscape sparked curiosity and conversations. Questions were asked and ideas were shared. Their responses to the landscape, while unique in their artistic output of style and form, were a shared experience.The survey of works in On This Island, Meeting and Parting are the result of this journey and its process. Works painted en plein air hang alongside paintings only made after thorough research into the landscape and its history of a time gone by. Paintings with figures — imagined and real — placed in the landscape are juxtaposed by the abstract expressions of other works. Each painting is an insight into the individual's process and interpretation. The exhibition is a privileged and rare view into the processes of artists working from the beginnings of a project to its very end.'