Seth Birchall: Unseen Cosmic Clock
Sat 06 Jun '26 – Sat 22 Aug '26
Overview
Unseen Cosmic Clock is an exhibition of new work by Seth Birchall that situates personal experience within broader questions of climate disaster and responsibility.
Loss and possibility are explored through painted and printed landscapes. Recurring imagery including marred olive trees, moonlit skies, and shifting skies forms a visual language of fragility and endurance.
For Birchall, these works echo a longstanding belief that painting…
Unseen Cosmic Clock is an exhibition of new work by Seth Birchall that situates personal experience within broader questions of climate disaster and responsibility.
Loss and possibility are explored through painted and printed landscapes. Recurring imagery including marred olive trees, moonlit skies, and shifting skies forms a visual language of fragility and endurance.
For Birchall, these works echo a longstanding belief that painting participates in an ongoing dialogue across time, history, and with those who continue to make work today. His landscapes are akin to family heirlooms, and his practice driven by a deep appreciation of nature and the need to protect it. He often responds to locations of environmental urgency, including the Bega Valley, where he has close connections and undertook a residency at Mimosa Rocks National Park in 2020 (hosted by the former Bega Valley Regional Gallery). Ideas of reciprocity, expressed through acts of giving and receiving – most visibly in Birchall's creation of prints for audiences to take – are key themes in the exhibition, aligning with the Bega Valley's broader circular economy ambitions.
A custom-designed bench invites audiences to contemplate Birchall's landscapes, a reference to traditions where nature is experienced as a solitary encounter and acts of contemplation.
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