CONTEMPORARY ART STOCKROOM Hobie Porter

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Hobie Porter is a contemporary landscape painter focused on concepts of place and environment. His ethereal landscape paintings explore both the meticulous detail of nature's textures as well as questioning notions of colonialism, nationalism, the picturesque and the sublime. Interested in the implications such ideas have when considering landscape from a contemporary environmental perspective, Porter's images present visionary moments of both environmental peril and and a sense of optimism for future sustainability. Porter lives & works in the Tweed Valley, North-Eastern NSW.

I paint in pursuit of a sensitive engagement with place and landscape. My paintings speak of precarious environments, often in terms of neglect or loss. I think landscape painting can be as much about the self as it is about the landscape; it’s a slippery notion which culminates in my work as an elusive poetic. My aesthetic is involved in a kind of imagining into landscape, to reinvoke a sense of its mystery and to speak of a quiet, emotive response to place.
Hobie Porter, Artist Statement

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ARTIST PROFILE:
Hobie Porter is a Henry Lawson Scholarship recipient, holding a Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts) with Honours (Contemporary Art) and a Graduate Diploma of Education. Hobie has been exhibiting regularly since 2004 and teaches painting at the North Coast Institute of TAFE.

His most recent major exhibitions include the 2018 retrospective Hobie Porter: The Last Decade at Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery, and Unnatural History: The Tower Hill Project which toured to both Lismore Regional Gallery (2018) and Warrnambool Art Gallery (2016). His work has been selected for recent survey exhibitions, including Love at Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre in 2019, The North Head Project at Manly Art Gallery & Museum in 2017, Assemble | Disassemble at Caboolture Regional Gallery in 2015 and The New Arcadia at Lismore Regional Gallery in 2011.

Porter has most recently undertaken an artist residency at Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery (2018), and has been shortlisted for the John Leslie Landscape Art Prize (2014), the Colville-Loyd Rees Landscape Prize, Colville Gallery, Hobart (2013), the Mosman Art Prize (Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney) and the Paddington Art Prize (Mary Place Gallery, Sydney). In 2012, He was awarded Highly Commended in the Essential Energy Countryscapes Art Prize (Bathurst Regional Art Gallery). His work is held in numerous public collections including Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery, Mosman Art Gallery and Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre.

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Of middens and dumps 2015
oil on canvas, framed
110cm x 200cm
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Something Gained, Something Lost 2021
oil on polyester canvas
160cm x 120cm , framed
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