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Journeys Over Land
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These abstract works examine human excursions in the Australian Landscape, a theme which has occupied Hume since 1995 when he began to use vivid acrylic pigments on flat sheets of galvanised steel to capture the look and feel of the land. The work has found favour with critics and the public alike, finding its way into corporate collections as well as domestic and public spaces in Australia and overseas. “The style of my work is often compared to that of Indigenous Art. I have always been careful not to misappropriate items of indigenous culture, but any abstract landscape painter working today must allow their work to acknowledge an indigenous presence if it is not to perpetuate further injustices. I seek to move to a time when work may be created that is described neither as Western nor Indigenous, but simply as Australian.”
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