The Landscape Show | April 2023
The Landscape Show | 1 April – 8 May
The Landscape Show features a diverse selection of paintings and monotypes. Curated from Exploring The Landscape, Ashley Frost’s term course on the breadth of gesture and colour in landscapes through compositional drawings, monoprint works and mixed media colour studies. United by their passion for landscape art, the skilled ensemble featured in this exhibition gathered weekly to delve into various landscape styles and subjects.
Displayed works encompass a striking range of subjects, from urban and rural scenes to seascapes and untouched wilderness. Highlighting an array of techniques and mediums, such as printmaking monotypes, acrylic on canvas, and oil on canvas. Yet while the show has tremendous diversity, Ashley notes “the exhibition has a wonderful unifying aspect of colour in all the works, with each artist showing elements of their own style”.
Dates: 1 April – 8 May 2023
Times: Monday – Friday, 10am-4pm | Closed Monday 10 April
Closing event: Friday 28 April, 6-8pm
Entry: Free
Location: Art Est Art School | 10 Hill St, Leichhardt NSW 2040
Participating Artists
Kathy Armstrong | Amanda Bourke | Maya de Veaux | Naomi Elias | Julia Gottlieb | CJ Morehen | Janene Porter | Jane Sankey | Susie Stubbs
Curated by Ashley Frost
Painting Courses with Ashley Frost
Ashley Frost is very much a location-driven artist with many of his landscape works developed by painting and drawing outdoors. His teaching style is energetic which focuses on the formalities of drawing, colour theory, tonal values, and brushwork.
He has worked as an exhibiting artist for over 20 years with four solo shows in New York (2000, 2002, 2004 & 2016), a solo show in Austin, Texas (2016) and group exhibitions in Hong Kong, Tokyo and Guangzhou.
Recently, in 2018, Ashley won the Hills Art Prize and was a finalist in the Gallipoli Art Prize and the Calleen Art Award. In 2017, he was a finalist in the EMSLA Still Life Prize, the NSW Parliament Plein Art Prize, the Archibald Prize and was the winner of the people’s choice award for the Mosman Art Prize. Ash is also a finalist in the 2023 Dobell Drawing Prize currently on exhibition at the National Art School
Ashley is a graduate of the National Art School, Australia, receiving his BFA with a Distinction in painting and has travelled widely conducting research for his PhD candidacy on public art.