Goulburn Mulwaree

Margie Fitzpatrick 'Journey to the Centre' - Opening of Exhibition 2-4pm 31 October 2026 at Gallery on Track and continues throughout Novemeber 2026

In 2014, I created the exhibition "Journey to the Centre," inspired by my travels to our incredible Red Centre. I was captivated by the immense space, extraordinary light, and a profound sense of age. Moving through the mysterious Australian landscape, I became aware of an essence existing far beyond my own sense of time.
Returning to the desert in 2023, I travelled into remote spaces—camping beneath a vast sky, walking through gorges, riverbeds, and sand dunes. This time allowed me to fully absorb the atmosphere of the land: listening to the wilderness, drawing, and simply, being present. In that stillness, I felt a presence I knew I wanted to explore and capture through my art.
This connection explains what draws me equally to mountains and deserts.
Kosciusko, a precious landscape, with twisted wind blown trees, coloured bark and foggy mornings both have a sense of mysterious timelessness and vastness suggesting to me something beyond what the eye can see, a feeling of forever.
Light and colour blanketing form become a way of suggesting what cannot be seen but felt, evoking one’s imagination.
My art serves as an anchor, holding onto that fleeting moment of presence and reminding me of 'something more.'
Through these works, I invite viewers to find a space to reflect on what continues beyond the visible for themselves, as art is always in the eye of the beholder.