Lost Pastoral | Saffron Newey
7 October - 1 November 2020
Jan Manton Gallery is pleased to present Saffron Newey's latest exhibition Lost Pastoral showing from 7 October - 1 November, 2020.
Lost Pastoral features reminiscences of Romantic landscape paintings, hazy and soft focused, devoid of definition and divorced from their original contexts. Painters Louis Buvelot (Swiss-Australian), Hans Güde (Norwegian), Eugene von Guerard (Austrian-Australian) and Albert Bierstadt (German-American) have been appropriated in this series to present a remembrance of Romantic landscape history painting... Within this body of work the Romantic sublime meets its contemporary, online counterpart – the digital sublime. The latter is a space in which time, place and context become miscellaneous and “other” worlds evolve.
— Saffron Newey