ACCIDENTAL TOURIST

25 June - 1 August 2021

Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Manly

5 February - 26 March 2022

Shoalhaven Regional Gallery, Nowra, NSW

Accidental Tourist - Exhibition Catalogue

Prominent Sydney artist Peter Sharp and Manly Art Gallery & Museum present forty 'plein air paintings selected from Sharp's practice over the past 30 years. These works reflect the artist's travels around regional and remote Australia and have become part of his 'toolkit for larger abstract works. Photographs of the painted view in situ illuminate the artist's process of capturing the essence of the landscapes with which he engages.

With subject locations as diverse as Fowlers Gap Broken Hill, Dog Fence near Tibooburra, Darling River Western NSW, Bay of Fires Tasmania, Royal National Park and Sydney’s Northern Beaches, Sharp hones in on the textures, objects and colours that give these places unique character, and explores the very notion of landscape.