CONTEMPORARY LANDSCAPE ARTIST

Hobie Porter creates hyper-realistic 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 finds visual metaphors that articulate civilisation's role within, and relationship to, the 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

• 24th, 25th & 26th Oct. '08: 3 small works for sale at ArtSydney Fair, Royal Hall of industries, Moore Park, Sydney, Arthouse Gallery at stand G6.

• 25 Sept.-25 Nov. '08 Group Exhibtiion, Wish You Were Here, Tweed River Art Gallery. Exhibition celebrates TRAG's 20th anniversary. Works comprise a 'wish list'. Hobie's work, Transubstantiation, has been purchased for the gallery's permanent collection

• 23 Sept.-11 Oct. '08: Solo Exhibition, Suspension, Arthouse Gallery. Opening night: Wednesday 24th Sept. 6-8pm

• 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