Horizons
6 jun. — 23 aug. 2025

6 jun. — 23 aug. 2025
Horizons
Image: Bianca Hester, Extinction lines, 2024 (still), Two channel HD video with sound, 5:18 minutes, looped, Audio modified from field recordings made between 2022-2024, Videography: Sammy Hawker, Sound design: Aaron Hull. Image: Jacqui Manning. Installation view UNSW Galleries. Image courtesy and copyright the artist.
Image: Bianca Hester, Extinction lines, 2024 (still), Two channel HD video with sound, 5:18 minutes, looped, Audio modified from field recordings made between 2022-2024, Videography: Sammy Hawker, Sound design: Aaron Hull. Image: Jacqui Manning. Installation view UNSW Galleries. Image courtesy and copyright the artist.
Horizons
6 jun. — 23 aug. 2025
Gemma Brown, Rowan Conroy, Marian Drew, Lizzie Hall, Bianca Hester, Janet Laurence, Guido Maestri, Mandy Quadrio, Isadora Vaughan
Horizons explores connections between the body, the natural world and the built environment. The term horizons can indicate limitlessness, opportunity and optimism, or, conversely, be seen as a perceived barrier, feared sense of the unknown, or a warning sign. The exhibition embraces the breadth of these interpretations, looking at the ways we desire to draw close to the environment while also acknowledging the constructed physical, digital and mental barriers created between humankind and the landscape.
The idea of horizons as moments of precipice, meeting, or confrontation with the more-than-human worlds is investigated through the diverse and innovative practices of leading Australian artists living and working across Australia. The exhibition presents works by artists Gemma Brown, Rowan Conroy, Marian Drew, Lizzie Hall, Bianca Hester, Janet Laurence, Guido Maestri, Mandy Quadrio and Isadora Vaughan. Horizons features a dynamic range of media including ceramics, audio-visual works, photography, painting and installations. The impactful works featured in Horizons will look at human intervention in the natural world in order to consider historic moments of destruction, contend with our present, and posit possible futures.





















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Installation View 'Horizons' featuring Marion Drew. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View 'Horizons' featuring Isadora Vaughan and Marion Drew. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View 'Horizons' featuring Isadora Vaughan. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View 'Horizons' featuring Isadora Vaughan, (detail). Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View 'Horizons' featuring Isadora Vaughan, (detail). Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View 'Horizons' featuring Bianca Hester. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View 'Horizons' featuring Bianca Hester and Lizzie Hall. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View 'Horizons' featuring Bianca Hester, (detail). Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View 'Horizons' featuring Bianca Hester, (detail). Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View 'Horizons' featuring Bianca Hester. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View 'Horizons' featuring Bianca Hester, Gemma Brown and Lizzie Hall. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View 'Horizons' featuring Gemma Brown and Marian Drew. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View 'Horizons' featuring Lizzie Hall and Gemma Brown. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View 'Horizons' featuring Lizzie Hall. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View 'Horizons' featuring Guido Maestri. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View 'Horizons' featuring Guido Maestri and Rowan Conroy. Photograph: Silversalt photography
Installation View 'Horizons' featuring Rowan Conroy. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View 'Horizons' featuring Janet Laurence. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View 'Horizons' featuring Janet Laurence. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View 'Horizons' featuring Janet Laurence. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View 'Horizons' featuring Mandy Quadrio and Janet Laurence. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View 'Horizons' featuring Mandy Quadrio (detail). Photograph: Silversalt Photography.

Image: Bianca Hester, Extinction lines, 2024 (still), Two channel HD video with sound, 5:18 minutes, looped, Audio modified from field recordings made between 2022-2024, Videography: Sammy Hawker, Sound design: Aaron Hull. Image: Jacqui Manning. Installation view UNSW Galleries. Image courtesy and copyright the artist.
Horizons
6 jun. — 23 aug. 2025
Gemma Brown, Rowan Conroy, Marian Drew, Lizzie Hall, Bianca Hester, Janet Laurence, Guido Maestri, Mandy Quadrio, Isadora Vaughan
Horizons explores connections between the body, the natural world and the built environment. The term horizons can indicate limitlessness, opportunity and optimism, or, conversely, be seen as a perceived barrier, feared sense of the unknown, or a warning sign. The exhibition embraces the breadth of these interpretations, looking at the ways we desire to draw close to the environment while also acknowledging the constructed physical, digital and mental barriers created between humankind and the landscape.
The idea of horizons as moments of precipice, meeting, or confrontation with the more-than-human worlds is investigated through the diverse and innovative practices of leading Australian artists living and working across Australia. The exhibition presents works by artists Gemma Brown, Rowan Conroy, Marian Drew, Lizzie Hall, Bianca Hester, Janet Laurence, Guido Maestri, Mandy Quadrio and Isadora Vaughan. Horizons features a dynamic range of media including ceramics, audio-visual works, photography, painting and installations. The impactful works featured in Horizons will look at human intervention in the natural world in order to consider historic moments of destruction, contend with our present, and posit possible futures.





















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Installation View 'Horizons' featuring Marion Drew. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View 'Horizons' featuring Isadora Vaughan and Marion Drew. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View 'Horizons' featuring Isadora Vaughan. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View 'Horizons' featuring Isadora Vaughan, (detail). Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View 'Horizons' featuring Isadora Vaughan, (detail). Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View 'Horizons' featuring Bianca Hester. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View 'Horizons' featuring Bianca Hester and Lizzie Hall. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View 'Horizons' featuring Bianca Hester, (detail). Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View 'Horizons' featuring Bianca Hester, (detail). Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View 'Horizons' featuring Bianca Hester. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View 'Horizons' featuring Bianca Hester, Gemma Brown and Lizzie Hall. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View 'Horizons' featuring Gemma Brown and Marian Drew. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View 'Horizons' featuring Lizzie Hall and Gemma Brown. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View 'Horizons' featuring Lizzie Hall. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View 'Horizons' featuring Guido Maestri. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View 'Horizons' featuring Guido Maestri and Rowan Conroy. Photograph: Silversalt photography
Installation View 'Horizons' featuring Rowan Conroy. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View 'Horizons' featuring Janet Laurence. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View 'Horizons' featuring Janet Laurence. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View 'Horizons' featuring Janet Laurence. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View 'Horizons' featuring Mandy Quadrio and Janet Laurence. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation View 'Horizons' featuring Mandy Quadrio (detail). Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
