Gallery 2

Echoes

8 - 19 Apr 2026

Opening night

10 April | 6 - 8 pm

Gallery Hours:
Wednesday – Sunday: 10 am – 5 pm

ARTIST  STATEMENT 

Hands, so often seen as symbols of strength or labor, are also keepers of fine detail and connection. They are comforting, loving, holding, their worn lines, the way they gesture and caress, the way they reach and retreat, unfurling like fern fronds. Hands are formers and tellers of stories; calloused fingertips tell of wrenching work that has hardened them like the bark of a tree. 

Hands or nature; which is the reflection and which is the reflected? This work holds a mirror to these formed parallels, drawing lines between and across ourselves. Hands not only echo the natural world, but connect us to it; spread fingers silhouetting the movement of water, and then dipping themselves into its gurgling stream, shaky fingers peeling back the bark of a tree to reveal soft, light layers underneath. 

If we cannot come to love our own, familiarly wrinkled, creased or scarred hands, maybe we can come to see the beauty of their elements through mirrors in the knotted wood, rippling streams and curling leaves we marvel at so freely. 

ARTIST  BIOGRAPHY

Form and texture; light and shadow; people and landscapes are all primary areas of interest within Diane Morgan's photography. Her current work is inspired by a drive to capture the changes that occur over time to the human form and in nature, and how the two reflect each other. 

Diane has shown her work in several exhibitions, including at FPS Art For All, SMALL! Forty-five Downstairs Gallery, Rutherglen Tastes of Art, Surrounds, Old Stone Hall Beechworth, and Beechworth Contemporary Artspace. Diane’s new book, Echoes, is an exploration of the reflections seen between hands and nature as they age and change – the unique stories, beauty and familiar lines we can see all around us if we look closely enough.