'Light Hope', acrylic on board, framed, 27.5 x 30 cm by Lorna Grear

Light Hope, 2025, Taralga, NSW, acrylic on board, 27.5 x 30 cm by Lorna Grear (framed with contemporary beading frame).

Please note: this is a physical item and will only be posted within Australia.

I painted Light Hope recently. The night before was a huge storm which always brings an eerie light. I had woken up the following day and the whole land was bathed in light. It was a light that surrounds and envelopes you. The silhouette of my favourite trees and plants had a silver yellow aura around them. I was breathtaking. Nature is a great healer and during the genocide of tens of thousands of people in Palestine light brings a hope. Our connected human nature can and will survive. I see hope and faith as resistance.

Lorna has held numerous solo shows including at the The infamous Tailor Room Gallery, Sydney ( curator Lee Frost) between 1998 – 2003, Peloton in 2005, 2009 and 2011, Mop Projects in 2013 and Airspace Projects Inc. in 2019, 2018 and 2016. Other galleries include, Imperial slacks, Herringbone, SNO, Phatspace, Zitlip, Firstdraft and Drawspace. Her work has been exhibited in the Portia Geach Memorial Prize, the Paddington Art Prize, The Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, The Fishers Ghost Art Award, Mosman Art Prize and the Liverpool Art Prize. Before this, her time was spent in London, initiating community arts groups, namely The Dolehouse Collective and Scarecrow Tiggy- an artist run co-operative in Camberwell, London.

She is a graduate of both Sydney College of the Arts and The National Art School. Lorna currently teaches art history and painting at TAFE NSW, where she also acted as Head Teacher of St George College of Fine Arts and The Ceramic Design Studio, Gymea from 2018-2020.

In November 2023, Lorna had her 3rd solo exhibition at Flinders Street Gallery, titled Big Yellow Sun. These paintings were painted during a sabbatical and feature landscapes ideas from Taralga and Bannaby, in the Southern Highlands. Her 4th solo show at Flinders St Gallery is due for November 2025.