George Colville, Untitled Landscape. Oil on canvas. 58.2 x 59 cm.
Latrobe Regional Gallery Collection,
gift of the State Electricity Commission of Victoria, 2002.

Latrobe Regional Gallery

Shifting Grounds

The downstairs Galleries present the theme Shifting Grounds which is a celebration of nature and how we as humans shape our environments. The Land as Witness, LRG collection (Galleries 1 and 2) looks at the evolution of our environment from natural to agricultural to industrial landscapes. Earthsong (Gallery 3) by Lucy Hersey is a meditation on the rural/rustic pulse of our living world.

The Land as Witness

The Land as Witness traces the evolving relationship between people and the environments they inhabit. Moving from untouched wilderness through cultivated landscapes to sites of industrial transformation, the exhibition reflects on how human ambition and necessity have reshaped the natural world.

Lucy Hersey, The Stewardship of Ants, 2025.
Grounded earth pigment, charcoal, copper carbonate on canvas.
180 x 150 cm.

Lucy Hersey: Earthsong

Earthsong is a newly commissioned body of work by South Gippsland artist Lucy Hersey – a fervent celebration of the Latrobe Valley and Gippsland. A meditation on the deep, agrestic – of rural/rustic living – pulse of our living world.

Photo documentation by Karli Duckett, The Good Side Photography.