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Does a landscape change depending on who is looking?

The exhibition Her view comprises paintings and photographs from the Horsham Regional Art Gallery collection that depict the Wimmera, Gariwerd and surrounding Country through the eyes of women artists.

Artists bring their own understandings, experiences and emotional resonances to the landscapes they encounter, shaping what people, as viewers, see. The works in Her view reveal the world around them, shaped by the memories, cultures and activities of women artists. Here, land is not simply a view, but a place continually seen, used, altered, marked and reimagined.

In the adjoining exhibition space, the Gallery has presented View from here: Highlights from the National Gallery collection, an exhibition of significant early colonial views of our local landscapes drawn from the National Gallery of Australia’s vast collection. On display at the Gallery for the past two years, View from here comprises works exclusively by male artists, reflecting the colonial perspectives of a particular time and place, and the land’s potential, uniqueness and otherness.

Her view offers another perspective. It acknowledges that landscape is neither static nor untouched: it is lived in, worked on, remembered, changed and culturally understood. Before View from here closes and the works return to Canberra in February 2027, Her view invites you to look at the country around you through the eyes of women artists.

Organised by Horsham Rural City Council