Works from one of the country’s greatest living artists will be seen, and heard, in a new way at an exhibition which opened today.
Brisbane-born William Robinson is the only living Australian artist with a public gallery dedicated to his work and Numinous: The Landscape Paintings of William Robinson will showcase some of his most significant paintings.
Gallery director Vanessa Van Ooyen said the exhibition, which celebrated the gallery’s 15th anniversary, would also feature a meditation space within the gallery to provide a tranquil environment for quiet reflection.
“(It will be) surrounded by the artist’s radiant watercolour studies from the 1970s and 1980s, depicting sunlit landscapes and heavenly night skies,” Ms Van Ooyen said.
She said selected works were also accompanied by vivid audio descriptions for the benefit of people who are blind or have low vision, and which offered a new perspective for everyone else.
“The pieces in Numinous capture a sense of the unknown, the infinite and the divine. These are paintings that reflect the multifaceted and ever-changing natural world.”
Ms Van Ooyen said the Numinous exhibition featured artworks drawn from the QUT Art Collection and private collections.
She said highlights included Creation landscape: The dome of space and time, the final work in Robinson’s series of seven multi-panel ‘Creation’ works, which was displayed alongside a smaller study, both held by QUT, for the first time.
Numinous: The Landscape Paintings of William Robinson runs from October 1 to August 31, 2025.
