Image: Michael Ambriano Landscape with trees 2023. Courtesy the artist.
30 November 2023 to 5 March 2024
Michael Ambriano presents a new series of work made in response to an artist residency at Birds Hut near Rylstone NSW, in 2022. Birds Hut is located next to the World Heritage surrounds at Ganguddy-Dunns Swamp campground and Cudgegong River in the central tablelands of NSW.
The series reflects the diverse natural surrounds of the area including native bushlands, pagoda rock formations and waterways. It also explores the historic link Birds Hut has with the local area and its surrounding natural environment. As an immersive landscape artist, the artist is driven by being physically in the landscape and working en plein air.
This physicality and hands on interaction with the landscape allows him to fully explore the subject interpreting it and bringing it to the wider public. The residency at Birds Hut created an opportunity to further explore this and the relationship between the landscape, his personal emotions and reactions to the environment.
Michael Ambriano’s day to day art practice involves investigating landscapes and sketching out ideas or painting studies. He loves the immediacy of being in the landscape and the inspiration and emotion that can come by just sitting, studying and absorbing what is around.
This exhibition was exhibited in the Broadhurst Gallery from 20 October to 30 October 2023, and was sponsored by Southern Cross Framing.
This exhibition is showing at The Moran Gallery Sylvania, and is located in the Moran Health Care Group’s residential aged care home in Sylvania.
The Moran Gallery is a collaboration between Hazelhurst Arts Centre, the Moran Health Care Group, Sylvania and the Moran Art Foundation, to enrich the lives of Moran Aged Care residents.