For over twenty years, Juan Ford’s practice has engaged with the art historical canon, the Australian landscape painting tradition and broad universal questions about the human condition and the relationship between humans and the natural world.
Presented thematically, this survey exhibition reveals key conceptual questions which over time have manifested in more complex, refined and mature ways. It reveals the trajectory of Ford’s thinking, technical virtuosity and visual language, and the new ways he has developed to speak with his audience about concerns which have always interested him.
Juan Ford, From Grave to Cradle, 2008, oil on linen, 107 × 122cm. La Trobe University Art Collection, purchased 2008. Courtesy the artist and Benalla Art Gallery, Victoria
Benalla Art Gallery
8 November 2024 to 26 January 2025
Victoria
