Gallery 3

Misplaced

20 May - 31 May 2026

Opening night

22 May | 6 - 8 pm

Gallery Hours:
Wednesday – Sunday: 10 am – 5 pm (please note last day of exhibition ends at 3pm)

ARTIST  STATEMENT 

Through the prism of childhood memory and imagination, ‘Misplaced’ continues Susan Stevenson’s exploration of Australian colonial history and Settler attitudes to the landscape.

Her increasingly abstract and minimal work was transformed after a road trip to Western Queensland as anthropomorphic figurative elements inserted themselves unexpectedly into the scratchy, scrubby, often brilliantly red landscapes. Corrugated iron, blowing around the back blocks like discarded ideas, became a metaphor for the decline of Australian rural life. That marginal country, where her grandparents had lived and both Stevenson and her mother were born, is the site of her extended family’s past and the melancholic images are suddenly very personal.

ARTIST  BIOGRAPHY

Susan Stevenson is a Naarm/Melbourne-based artist. She has had solo shows in London, Sydney and Melbourne and been part of numerous group shows. She has been a finalist in several art prizes, including, most recently, the Hadley Art Prize 2025, the Omnia Prize 2025 and Omnia Prize 2026. Her work is included in private collections in Australia, New Zealand, U.K. and Europe.