Aaron Kinnane is part of a stunning group exhibition 'Turner & Australia' on display at Gippsland Art Gallery until August 24, 2025. THe show celebrates the influence of master painter J.M.W. Turner on Australian art.
[Kinanne's paintings] have the appearance of great howling vortexes of paint, of atmospheric phenomena beyond our means to suppress and which threaten to engulf all before them. In this, Kinnane's works belie the intense consideration and control that goes into their making. Kinanne's emotional response to landscape aligns him with Turner, whose paintings in oil and watercolour increasingly targeted the heart over the mind. — Simon Gregg, 'Turner & Australia'
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.
