Hobie Porter: Mountain Shadow
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Hobie PorterMountain Shadow, 2024oil on polyester canvas113 x 200 cm, 120 x 207 cm (framed)$34,000
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Hobie PorterSolitude, 2024oil on polyester canvas113 x 200 cm, 120 x 207 cm (framed)$34,000
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Hobie PorterEntanglement, 2023oil on polyester canvas113 x 200 cm, 120 x 207 cm (framed)Sold
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Hobie PorterNocturne, 2024oil on polyester canvas113 x 200 cm, 120 x 207 cm (framed)Sold
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Hobie PorterSentinel, 2023oil on polyester canvas113 x 200 cm, 120 x 207 cm (framed)$34,000
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Hobie PorterMountain Time, 2024oil on polyester canvas113 x 200 cm, 120 x 207 cm (framed)$34,000
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Hobie PorterBreathing Space, 2023oil on polyester canvas70 x 130 cm, 77 x 137 cm (framed)Sold
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Hobie PorterLong Shadow, 2024oil on polyester canvas70 x 130 cm, 77 x 137 cm (framed)Sold
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Hobie PorterLooking through the Angophoras (Berry Island), 2020oil on polyester canvas86.5 x 166.5 cm (framed)$22,000
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Hobie PorterPrecipice, 2024oil on polyester canvas70 x 130 cm, 77 x 137 cm (framed)$19,500
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Hobie PorterRetreat to the Mountains, 2022oil on polyester canvas80 x 60 cm, 87 x 67 cm (framed)Sold
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Hobie PorterEncroachment, 2022oil on polyester canvas80 x 60 cm, 87 x 67 cm (framed)Sold
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Hobie PorterThe Big Scrub (Stenocarpus sinuatus), 2022oil on polyester canvas80 x 120 cm, 87 x 127 cm (framed)$19,500
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Hobie PorterTransience, 2023oil on polyester canvas31 x 50 cm, 36 x 55 cm (framed)$7,000
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Hobie PorterRavine, 2023oil on polyester canvas31 x 50 cm, 36 x 55 cm (framed)Sold
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Hobie PorterEnvelopment, 2024oil on polyester canvas31 x 50 cm, 36 x 55 cm (framed)Sold
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Hobie PorterThe Creek Bed (Dendrobium Kingianum), 2023oil on polyester canvas36 x 45 cm, 43 x 52 cm (framed)Sold
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Hobie PorterRoad's End, 2024oil on polyester canvas40 x 50 cm, 47 x 57 cm (framed)Sold
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Hobie PorterIntroduced Habitats for Native Flora: Doryanthes Palmeri IV, 2023pastel pencil on paper76 x 56 cm, 86 x 66 cm (framed)Sold
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Hobie PorterIntroduced Habitats for Native Flora: Doryanthes Palmeri III, 2023pastel pencil on paper76 x 56 cm, 86 x 66 cm (framed)Sold
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Hobie PorterIntroduced Habitats for Native Flora: Doryanthes Palmeri II, 2023pastel pencil on paper76 x 56 cm, 86 x 66 cm (framed)Sold
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Hobie PorterIntroduced Habitats for Native Flora: Doryanthes Palmeri I, 2023pastel pencil on paper76 x 56 cm, 86 x 66 cm (framed)$3,500
Hobie Porter’s virtuosic paintings weave together personal history with sensitive and sublime visions of the landscape. Rendered with microscopic clarity, they speak of an essential yet elusive harmony between nature and culture.
In Porter’s new collection, ‘Mountain Shadow’, sweeping panoramic landscapes pay homage to the mountains and escarpments of the artist’s lifelong home in the Tweed Valley. Working with drone technology, a new aerial perspective sifts these familiar landscapes through an unfamiliar lens as Porter engages with the Freudian theory of the uncanny ¬– where heimlich courts the unheimlich and reality dances with dreams. The drone, as both trope and tool, allows the artist to wilfully remove himself from reality, elevating his paintings into a disorienting, ethereal space. Notable here is a divergence from the floating object paintings for which Porter is known; the drone itself becomes the floating object, summoning a new perspective spatially and conceptually.
Porter’s paintings address the sublime through a cinematic visual language. The epic widescreen panoramas in ‘Mountain Shadow’ see alpine trees illuminated with crisp, graphic light, sharpening the edges of forms and creating a sense of high definition. Porter’s meticulous trompe l’oeil conjures a kind of augmented reality beyond the painterly ¬¬– veering into the hyperreal. Meanwhile, the perspectival shift into high drone territory creates, for the first time, a tacit tone of science fiction. It’s a fascinating marriage of sublimity, scientism and hyperreality, destabilising the viewer as feelings of awe collide with cinematic sci-fi and the uncanniness of Porter’s photorealism