De of Mandy Martin, Romantic Coastal Landscape (1986). TarraWarra Museum of Art collection. Gift of Eva Besen AO and Marc Besen AC. A TarraWarra Museum of Art exhibition reframes landscapes to highlight vulnerability and impermanence Despite tree-change trends and pandemic-propelled city flight, Australia's population remains chiefly urbanised. Some 90 per cent of the nation's people live in built-up areas, with at least two-thirds residing in striking distance of a capital city GPO. It is perhaps for this reason the Australian landscape, beyond city fringes, remains a cornerstone of any serious gallery collection: it is a subject through which visitors can connect to that world beyond the sprawl, to places where 'thanks for visiting' shire signs give way to scraggy creek beds and hazy ranges.

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