CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALIAN LANDSCAPE PAINTER

Hobie Porter creates hyper-realistic oil paintings of the Australian landscape, manipulating his imagery to facilitate a reaction of disbelief.

His paintings simultaneously depict the sublime experience of the panoramic view and the intimacy of its miniscule components. While everything retains a sharp focus, he utilises these extremes of scale to approach a sense of the marvellous.

Hobie is interested in visually representing land and atmosphere as an integrated whole. His paintings facilitate aesthetic and cultural understandings of land as a connected ecosystem. He is particularly concerned with civilisation's role and relationship within it's surrounding environment.

RECENT & UPCOMING EVENTS

• 2009: Selected for the front cover of the 2009 Byron Bay Art Diary

• 23 May-14 June '09: Group Exhibition, title tba, Cold Coast City Arts Centre

• 14 May-21 June '09: Solo Exhibition, 'Dry Rain ', Tweed River Art Gallery, catalogue available from opening night

• 20 Sept.-4 Oct. '08: Solo Exhibition, 'Suspension', Arthouse Gallery

• 25-28 Oct. '07: Three new paintings showcased at ART SYDNEY 07 at the Royal Hall of Industries with Arthouse Gallery.

• 23 June-1 July '07: Guest speaker at FEHVA (Forty eight Hours of Visual Arts)

• 28 April-26 May '07: Solo exhibition, 'Exodus', Arthouse Gallery

• 17th April '07, 8pm, ABCTV: Hobie appears on the television series 'Painting Australia'

• 15 Dec. '06: Awarded 2nd prize, Border Art Prize, Tweed River Art Gallery

• 1 Dec. '06: "The seeds we sow" selected for front cover of The North Coast Arts Quarterly

• 18 Nov. '06: Conrad Jupiters Art Prize 2006 finalist