Burnie-based landscape painter Patrick Grieve is known for richly coloured renditions of Tasmania’s Northwest Coast, which the artist says has always been home.
Grieve creates textured and gestural works that suggest a methodological toil and performative replication of the agricultural work that shapes and changes the earth around him, including the many plotted and worked pieces of farmland a short distance from home. His most successful works, in Grieve’s own estimation, are the paintings that have an uneasy edge between that of the figurative scene and pure pattern or colour.
Burnie Regional Art Gallery
31 January to 14 March 2026
Tasmania
Patrick Grieve, Estuary, ten bridges to the west inlet, 2025, 122 × 122cm
Courtesy the artist and Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Tasmania
