Michaye Boulter is part of a major group exhibition 'Turner & Australia' on display at Gippsland Art Gallery until August 24, 2025.
Celebrating the influence of master painter J.M.W. Turner on Australian art, Boulter has a work on hand beaten steel - Everything is less certain IV - featured in show.
Boulter's 'Everything is less certain IV', painted on hand beaten steel, takes us to a place of spiritual respite, where the volume of life has been turned right down to allow us to hear and see the magic in our world. The work is Tasmanian in essence only and exists more as an ethereal dream that carries us to another place entirely. The twilight lit clouds steal our focus, but the meticulous rendering of ocean and landscape ground the work to ensure that all parts of the whole participate in this wonderous theatre of nature. Recalling Friedrich's assertion that an artist must paint what he sees within, Boulter admits to an attraction for places she returns to 'that are embedded in me, rather than sought out. it's more about looking inward to find these paintings than outward'. — Simon Gregg, 'Turner & The Sublimity of Nature'
The exhibition draws a line of influence from Turner’s contemporary John Glover, who migrated to Australia in 1831, aged 64, through to cutting edge contemporary art, and includes within its orbit those who have worked consciously within Turner’s legacy, and those for whom his influence is unintentional and the result of an inherited tradition of European-derived landscape art.
An exhibition across multiple rooms, this is a must see.
