Judy Trick | FULL CIRCLE | Exhibition

About

Judy Trick first exhibited with Artsite Contemporary in 2014, and Full Circle marks her third solo exhibition with the gallery, following Surface (2021) and Unearthed (2024).

Over more than a decade, her practice has been shaped by extensive travel — sketchbook and camera in hand, moving through landscapes across several continents before returning, always, to paint.

She now works from a studio on the New South Wales South Coast, where the rhythms of the coastline have become as central to her practice as the journeys that preceded them.

"Full Circle is a body of work about return — not as retreat, but as a deepening.

For years my practice was defined by movement: new places, new light, new ground underfoot. This exhibition marks a turn inward; toward a landscape I now know intimately rather than one I am encountering for the first time.

The paintings in this collection sit at the threshold between observation and memory. Skies dissolve into water; horizon lines blur where sea meets sky meets recollection.

I have worked to hold both the immediacy of a single sitting and the accumulated weight of years spent looking — the way a place changes not because the land moves, but because we do.

There is a kind of homecoming in this work, both literal and formal. The paint sits differently on the canvas now — looser in places, more deliberate in others — as though the years of travel have been folded back into a single, quieter language.