Susan Chancellor, Estuaryoming, 2025. Image courtesy of David Patterson
Susan Chancellor
Gallery 2
Opening Thursday 30 July, 2026, 6-8pm
Friday 31 July - Sunday 26 August
Glad Tidings showcases an underexamined and fragile part of our environment: the tidal estuarine foreshore, a transition zone between land and sea.
Where tidal waters wash against esturine shores, deposits of vegetative matter remain to feed the strange fishy creatures and plants that flourish there. Chancellor’s local stretch of foreshore, on Yuin country, gained special significance for her when it was threatened recently by a large development of over two hundred dwellings very close to the water’s edge. Chancellor was prompted to investigate the foreshore ecosystem more closely with an artistic eye.
The artist spent many months engaged in first hand observation in the field at a site close to her studio. Plein air sketches, monotypes, paintings and digital art all contribute to form this immersive exhibition.
The audience is invited to experience the outcome of the artist’s first-hand experience of the inter-tidal zone through the fresh gouache sketches. This work has been combined with monotypes and paintings processed in the studio. The digital footage she has taken on-site with her smart phone of tidal movement and reflected surfaces has been translated into digital art through her collaboration with producer/director/writer, Hiromi Matsuoka.