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Exhibition

Woodlands: Strange Beauty

Where

Outstation Gallery
8 Parap Place
Parap, 0820
Darwin, Northern Territory

After the success and delight of showing Steve Gough’s work last year, Outstation is excited to host his first solo show, an iteration of the technical mastery and detail of his top end landscapes.

OUT BUSH AND BEYOND

Influenced by seventeenth-century French painter Claude Lorraine, Steve Gough continues his quest to capture light: the hazy pink hues of a warm sky, bulbous clouds and the atmospheric glow of the sun’s position, the spiky crunch of dry season barks, the softness of fronds in the wind, the antics of magpie geese and the flutter of birds in flight. Hailing a European aesthetic with quintessential top end likeness, these small works are jewel-like, revealing more of his subtle palette and the finesse of fine brush work.

REFLECTING ON THE SEASONS

This series also introduces the Japanese aesthetic for elegant simplicity and tenacious line; Gough makes reference to the Rinpa artists of Japan whose work straddled the period of Lorraine’s European romanticism. Noting the Rinpa tradition of using sliding screens to represent the passing of the seasons, often seemingly floating on an ethereal gold leaf background, some of these new works are multi-panelled bringing a sense of narrative and continuity.

 

Ironwood and Flowering Grevillea Steve Gough

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Wet Season Stringybark Forest IV Steve Gough

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Study of a Woollybutt - Dusk Steve Gough

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Flowering Wet Season Sand Palms Steve Gough

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Stormy Sunset Steve Gough

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Cycads, Grevillea and Kurrajong Through the Seasons Steve Gough

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Kurrajong and Flowering Woollybutt Steve Gough

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Study of a Stringybark Steve Gough

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Darwin River Ridge Steve Gough

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Darwin River Dam Taken from the Ridge: Sunset Steve Gough

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Dry Season Stringbarks Steve Gough

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Dry Season Darwin River Steve Gough

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Dry Season Cycad and Kurrajong with Flowering Grevillea Steve Gough

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Wet Season Stringybark Forest III Steve Gough

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Wet Season Stringybark Forest II Steve Gough

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Wet Season Stringybark Forest I Steve Gough

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Magpie Goose Landing Steve Gough

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Magpie Goose (detail) Steve Gough

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Roosting Magpie Geese Steve Gough

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Magpie Geese Descending Steve Gough

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Dry Season Landscape Steve Gough

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Pair of Orange-footed Scrub Fowl, Roosting Steve Gough

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Coucal Pheasants Steve Gough

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Red-tailed Black Cockatoos, Dusk Steve Gough

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Wet Season Stringybark, Darwin River Steve Gough

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Clouds and Woollybutts III Steve Gough

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Clouds and Woollybutts II Steve Gough

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Clouds and Woollybutts I Steve Gough

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Wet Season Woollybutts, Darwin River Dam Steve Gough

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Wet Season Woollybutts, Darwin River Dam Steve Gough

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Pair of Brolgas Steve Gough

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