Human beings have long been fascinated by landscapes and the world around us. Through our interactions with the environment, we both extract and assign meaning, creating a rich and layered relationship.

Landscape and Meaning, a group exhibition brought to the OVADA gallery by artists Kieran McLean, Anne Griffiths, Emmett Casley, and Mark Clay, explored this complex exchange, examining how landscapes shape understanding, memory, and interpretation.

This exhibition engaged with landscape through a dynamic range of interpretations and locations — near and far, real and imagined. Reflecting the richness and complexity of humanity’s relationship with place, this takeover exhibition showcased an exciting and eclectic selection of styles, mediums and mindsets.

Featuring sculpture, painting, drawing, and multi‑media works, McLean, Griffiths, Casley and Clay invited visitors to explore landscapes both familiar and distant, and to consider how our understanding of them is formed through observation, experience, and imagination.

Image credits: Anne Griffiths, Mark Clay and Kieran McLean.