South Gippsland artist Lucy Hersey has a long-held affinity for complex terranean ecologies and quiet sciences of soil; this commissioned body of work, a fervent celebration of the Latrobe Valley and Gippsland, being guided by pedology, earth pigments, and the unseen.
Each work here is composed using local earth – gathered pigments, grounded, sifted, and held with the same care one might offer something ineffable. The landscapes of Gippsland – the rolling hills; vivid, and untouched bushland; cloudscapes that drift like slow-moving hymns – rising into view through these vast earthbound canvases.
Latrobe Regional Gallery
7 February to 7 June 2026
Victoria
Lucy Hersey, Earthsong, 2025, grounded earth pigment, charcoal, copper carbonate on canvas, 180 × 150cm
Photograph: Karli Duckett, The Good Side Photography
Courtesy the artist and Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria
