The landscapes, light and atmosphere of the Tamworth region are at the centre of Everything the Land Remembered, a new exhibition now showing at Weswal Gallery.
Featuring work by 13 artists, the exhibition grew out of a 2025 artist residency at Goonoo Goonoo Station, where members of the Willoughby Art Centre travelled from Sydney to immerse themselves in the region’s distinctive landscape.
Guided by landscape artists Tim Allen and Ross Laurie, and joined by Armidale artist Rowan Matthews, the group painted “en plein air” across locations including Goonoo Goonoo and Moonbi Lookout, responding directly to the changing colours, textures and light of the New England North West.
The exhibition combines these immediate on-site studies with paintings and ceramics later developed in the studio using memory, photographs and field notes. Together, the works reflect both the individuality of each artist and a shared response to the Tamworth landscape.
Across abstract and realist styles, Everything the Land Remembered explores the idea of landscape as something living and evolving — shaped by memory, experience and artistic interpretation.
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