Charles Blackman, The Red Earth. Oil on paper on board. 48.0 x 73.5 cm. Latrobe Regional Gallery Collection, gift of M & A Kocis, architects, 2025.
Image description: Oil painting of a figure with a red top hat sitting on a yellow and black tractor. The earth is a deep vibrant red, with dark green almost black plant wall in the background, with a yellow sky.
7 February to 7 June 2026
Galleries 1 and 2
The Land as Witness traces the evolving relationship between people and the environments they inhabit. Moving from untouched wilderness through cultivated landscapes to sites of industrial transformation, the exhibition reflects on how human ambition and necessity have reshaped the natural world. Through photography, sculpture and mixed media, the artists explore how the land absorbs and records the traces of human presence — bearing memory, resilience and loss in equal measure.
Together, these works invite us to consider the landscape not as a passive setting, but as an active participant in our shared story, one that remembers, responds, and continues to shape the contours of our collective future.