Olivia Moroney — Komorebi

The Southern Midlands is Olivia Moroney’s artistic playground, and the exhibition of new prints and drawings revisits this landscape with a dramatic boldness. Her inspiration – Komorebi.

There is no English equivalent. Komorebi is a Japanese word describing the interplay of light through leaves on a tree. “After spending time at an artist’s workshop in Japan, I was passionate about capturing Tasmania’s strong light,” Olivia tells us. She does this brilliantly in a series of dry-point print tree profiles. Summer’s sun casts long dark shadows. These diffuse on winter’s arrival.

A monochromatic palette and pared-back forms, brings the stark beauty of the landscape around Olivia’s family farm at Jericho, to life. In the charcoal and gouache drawing, The Last Light of the Day, a dramatic shard of light pierces the countryside, while a subtle softness falls over the land in Morning Blaze.

Komorebi takes us on a powerful journey. We glimpse familiar scenes in Artist Books as Olivia drives across her beloved Midlands. “All the roads are different. Where are we going? Where will we end up? But as we continue nothing is more captivating than the beautiful light.”

Olivia’s Komorebi opens at Handmark this Friday 4 April at 5pm and continues until 27 April.

Image credit: Olivia Moroney, The last light of the day, 2025, gouache and charcoal on paper, 70 x 89 cm

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