Pine Tier Perspectives —

From Glover Prize finalists to emerging artists. From painters to printmakers. The Handmark artists who ventured into Pine Tier represented a remarkable breadth of experience and practice, each bringing their own visual language to the landscape.

Well-known landscape painters, Peter Gouldthorpe, Melanie McCollin-Walker and Adrian Barber were joined by renowned printmakers, Melissa Smith and Helen Mueller. David Edgar, who specialises in powerful drawings; the prodigiously diverse Julie Payne; and talented young artists Olivia Moroney and Max Mueller, made up the nine artists.

“It was important that the group represented our vastly talented Handmark team, with each artist bringing a different talent and perspective,” Handmark Director Allanah Dopson explains. “It took a year to put together, but Pine Tier exceeded all expectations. I am awed by the variety of works we will unveil at the National Tree Day exhibition. Images that make Tasmania’s wilderness feel personal, loved and worthy of protection forever.”

But the retreat also reached beyond the visual arts. Tasmanian composer Dean Stevenson joined the group at Pine Tier, where the striking landscape inspired a new body of music composed in response to place.