Continuum brings together a collection of paintings, drypoint prints,
and ceramics by Neil Williams that explore scale, presence,
and absence within the landscape.
Emerging not as a backdrop but as something vast, indifferent, and enduring,
the landscape is cast as a presence with isolated buildings knit within it.
Sealed against entry, markers of vulnerability and quiet withdrawal,
those buildings are dwarfed by their surroundings, seemingly serving as
repositories of unreachable memory, accentuating human transience
within the landscape's permanence.
Subtle beacons-crosses, fence lines, and power poles-punctuate the horizon
like markers, hinting at orientation and reverence without resolution.
Informed by a recent Tasmanian residency, Continuum captures ephemeral
encounters in which meaning fleetingly emerges only to dissolve into the
natural expanse. Building on themes introduced in Williams' 2024 exhibition
Distance, this body of work deepens his meditation on our insignificance within
a vast terrain, giving the landscape an edge that feels like it is reading you
before you can read it.
