A Fragile Strength

Sydney Contemporary Art Fair 2023

Carriageworks, 245 Wilson St, Eveleigh NSW 2015
7 – 10 September 2023

Clifford How’s newest series, ‘A Fragile Strength’, is a painterly ballad of Tasmania’s ancient wilderness. As a fourth-generation Tasmanian, the variability – and volatility – of this island landscape is dear to the artist’s heart, but this affiliation is not without a recognition of the colonial shadows that problematise the contemporary landscape and the history of landscape painting. How responds to this reality by re-wilding the landscape, erasing traces of humanity and restoring nature’s sovereignty.