08/08/2026
Current works by Winsome Spiller on show in her solo exhibition, Seeing Place.
Seeing Place brings together a body of work exploring the many ways a place can be experienced, remembered and reimagined through art. Drawing from imagined landscapes, personal memory and documented environments, the exhibition reflects Winsome’s ongoing investigation into how places shape our emotional and visual understanding of the world around us.
Working across painting, collage, plaster, cardboard and sand, Winsome moves fluidly between abstraction and representation, allowing each work to respond intuitively to the character and atmosphere of a place. Some works emerge from direct observation, while others are reconstructed through memory, fragments of maps and sensory impressions that blur the boundaries between geography and imagination.
Big Blue, 2012-26
oil on canvas
268 x 141 cm
$5500
This gestural abstract oil painting was made exploiting the marks made by thin runny paint on canvas arranged on the studio floor, before stretching and adding gestural brushstrokes. It evokes a sense of atmospheric forces - wind, rain, gravity - acting to form a vertical landscape descending from the air to a darker, cave-like place below.
Earth Water Fire Air, 2012-26
acrylic on canvas
181 x 141 cm
$4900
This abstract acrylic painting on canvas was made by a process of paint transfer that I developed in my studio practice. Painting in layers on clear plastic, distressing each layer then painting another layer on top, generates a field of marks and colours. After continually observing the process until a satisfying composition emerges, the paint is transferred off the plastic onto canvas.
Earth Water Fire Air could evoke an aerial view of a sea surrounded by fragmented land masses, and at the same time the colours could suggest four forces of nature: earth, water, fire and air.
Stratified Landscape, 2026
cardboard and acrylic paint on wooden frame
62 x 59 x 5 cm
$700
The lines and forms of this process-based abstract could suggest layers of rock strata, compressed and layered by geological forces - but also the lines of a receding landscape of rolling hills. The original materia
