Exhibition Dates:
24 September - 2 November, 2025
The exhibition A Way of Seeing by Baden Croft and Liam Waldie invites viewers into an intimate dialogue with the landscapes of the Mornington Peninsula, revealing diverse approaches to capturing place.
Croft's collage practice synthesises fragments of memory, landscape, and history - entwining elements that evoke the layered narrative of the land itself, with generous impasto gestures and patchworks of visual cues that draw viewers into shifting terrain. With meandering paths that silently beckon, Waldie's process involves revisiting familiar sites, blending realism with personal interpretation to evoke the immediacy of moment and environment.
Both artists have dropped collective memories right into the landscape's fabric, producing paintings that serve as meditative portals into personal experience. Together, their contrasting yet complementary methods challenge perceptions of landscape as static and encourage a nuanced, evocative dialogue with the natural world.
The accompanying film by Cam Myers documents the exhibition’s development, underscoring the power of process and perspective, offering the environment anew through the distinctive vision of these local artists.
Click here to view the documentary in full: A Way of Seeing: Mornington Peninsula
Documentary made possible through generous funding from the Mornington Peninsula Shire, Creative Grant.
Artist Information
24 September - 2 November, 2025
The exhibition A Way of Seeing by Baden Croft and Liam Waldie invites viewers into an intimate dialogue with the landscapes of the Mornington Peninsula, revealing diverse approaches to capturing place.
Croft's collage practice synthesises fragments of memory, landscape, and history - entwining elements that evoke the layered narrative of the land itself, with generous impasto gestures and patchworks of visual cues that draw viewers into shifting terrain. With meandering paths that silently beckon, Waldie's process involves revisiting familiar sites, blending realism with personal interpretation to evoke the immediacy of moment and environment.
Both artists have dropped collective memories right into the landscape's fabric, producing paintings that serve as meditative portals into personal experience. Together, their contrasting yet complementary methods challenge perceptions of landscape as static and encourage a nuanced, evocative dialogue with the natural world.
The accompanying film by Cam Myers documents the exhibition’s development, underscoring the power of process and perspective, offering the environment anew through the distinctive vision of these local artists.
Click here to view the documentary in full: A Way of Seeing: Mornington Peninsula
Documentary made possible through generous funding from the Mornington Peninsula Shire, Creative Grant.
Artist Information
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Baden CroftThe Australian Dream, 2025Oil on linen170 x 250 cmBC036Sold -
Baden CroftIf Trees Could Talk, 2025Oil on linen200 x 200 cm$ 16,000.00BC040
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Baden CroftWild West, 2025Oil on linen160 x 150 cm$ 8,000.00BC037
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Baden CroftIn The Drink, 2025Oil on linen160 x 150 cm$ 8,000.00BC039
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Baden CroftBack to Front, 2025Oil on linen160 x 150 cm$ 8,000.00BC041
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Baden CroftNo Through Road, 2025Oil on linen155 x 140 cmBC038Sold
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Liam WaldieBushrangers, 2025Oil on canvas120 x 180 cmLW008Sold
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Liam WaldiePortsea, 2025Oil on canvas120 x 150 cm$ 7,200.00LW009
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Liam WaldieNepean, 2025Oil on canvas100 x 150 cm$ 6,000.00LW010
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Liam WaldieKerri, 2025Oil on canvas120 x 90 cm$ 4,300.00LW011
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Liam WaldiePulpit, 2025Oil on canvas60 x 50 cm$ 1,200.00LW012
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Liam WaldieEsplanade, 2025Oil on canvas40 x 59 cmLW013Sold
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Liam WaldieBirdrock, 2025Oil on canvas50 x 30 cmLW014Sold
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Cam MyersBackwash, Point Nepean, 2025Photograph53 x 53 cmArtist's Proof$ 495.00CM001
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Cam MyersApocalypse, Mount Martha, 2025Photograph53 x 53 cmArtist's Proof$ 495.00CM002
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Cam MyersFeeding Frenzy, Mount Martha, 2025Photograph53 x 53 cmArtist's Proof$ 495.00CM003
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Cam MyersMidnight, Portsea, 2025Photograph53 x 78 cmArtist's Proof$ 635.00CM004
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Cam MyersGlow, Portsea, 2025Photograph53 x 78 cmArtist's ProofCM005Sold
