Contemporary landscape painting

Abstract

Contemporary Landscape is explored through a vast array of disciplines that playfully interact with a variety of nationally and internationally recognised artists to express the essential interconnectedness of the contemporary world. Academic research is presented from an interdisciplinary perspective spanning the Arts and Sciences to include a diversity of interpretations from geography, geology, climate change, landscape evolution, philosophy, history, art history etc.. Confronting the abject reality of history links the philosophies of Kristeva, Benjamin and Baudrillard to the work of Kiefer, Richter, Mason, Tapies, Ray, Tyson, Hockney and Mehretu to express Landscape painting as a palimpsest that evocatively whispers the ghostly confluence of multiple realities as a metaphor for the interlinked reality of the contemporary age. By embracing painting as a science, using the processes of nature to create the works and facilitate inventive interconnections, Landscapes can become truly contemporary in their expression.