Our understanding of the Australian landscape has been shaped by interpretations by the artists of the Australian Impressionist era. Artists such as Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton and Walter Withers offered idealised versions of reality framed by their own experiences and desire to create a new national artform. Female artists associated with the group have been marginalised in art history and in exhibitions.

This exhibition brings Art Gallery of Ballarat’s collection of Australian Impressionist landscape paintings together with female photographers who have re-examined the Australian Impressionists and brought a new lens to the Australian landscape.