Queenscliff Gallery Homage to Discovering the Impressionists

INVITATION

Exhibition dates: Jul 9 – Aug 10, 2026.

Queenscliff Gallery (QG) presents a group exhibition celebrating the enduring influence of Impressionism—one of art’s most luminous and transformative eras.

Inspired by Geelong Gallery’s landmark exhibition Discovering the Impressionists: Paul Durand-Ruel and Sir Arthur Streeton’s ‘honeymoon’ etchings, QG-represented artists Julianne Ross Allcorn, Mary-Louise Edwards, Marketa Kemp, Soula Mantalvanos, Adam Nudelman, Trudy Rice, Steve Salo, Gwen Scott, Elmari Steyn, Sir Arthur Streeton, Lucinda Tanner, Susan Wald, John Waller and Sophia Xeros-Constantinides reinterpret the movement’s light, colour, and immediacy through a modern lens, honouring its legacy while reimagining its spirit for today.

In addition, the Geelong Gallery is inviting members to a special event at Queenscliff Gallery on Thursday, July 16, from 11am – 12pm to chat with John Waller and Soula Mantalvanos about their Impressionistic inspiration and also learn about the Impressionistic honeymoon etchings by Sir Arthur Streeton. Bookings for this event are directly through the Geelong Gallery website.

I’m so happy to have the opportunity not only to exhibit and present my impressionistic influence, but also to curate such a contemporary exhibition and collaborate with the Geelong Gallery. Although the Impressionists weren’t the first to head outdoors to create art, they are the group that created an official movement for capturing light and ordinary objects – not so ordinary were most of their scenes. But this movement, alongside the Byzantine period, is one of the two prominent concepts that form my love and art being.

As a Director of a regional commercial gallery, I also feel a great sense of achievement for the Arts – especially in these turbulent times. There is no greater brief to a creative human than a challenge. And it’s really time to revisit, question, brainstorm, and test the industry as it exists, and bring it into a new age… just as the Impressionists did.

Through collaboration and influence, together with the past and the new, this can be done.

I hope you can visit.