Artist statement
"Full Circle is a body of work about return — not as retreat, but as a deepening.
"For years my practice was defined by movement: new places, new light, new ground underfoot. This exhibition marks a turn inward; toward a landscape I now know intimately rather than one encountered for the first time.
"These paintings sit at the threshold between observation and memory. Skies dissolve into water; horizon lines blur where sea meets sky meets recollection.
"I have worked to hold both the immediacy of a single sitting and the accumulated weight of years spent looking – the way a place changes not because the land moves, but because we do.
"There is a kind of homecoming in this work, both literal and formal. The paint sits differently on the canvas now – looser in places, more deliberate in others – as though the years of travel have been folded back into a single, quieter language.
"Full Circle is not a departure from where I began, but a return to it, carrying everything gathered along the way." – Judy Trick, 2026.
Gallery hours
- Saturday and Sunday, 11am to 5pm
- Monday to Friday by appointment: 02 9519 9677
11:00am - 5:00pm
Free entry
Artsite Contemporary, 165-167 Salisbury Road (corner St Marys Street)
Camperdown NSW 2050
Australia