But I am still and you are still

Phoebe Wood-Ingram

Exhibition Dates :
Wednesday 3 – Monday 13 December 2025
Monday – Friday 10:00am – 4:00pm
Saturday & Sunday 9:00am – 3:00pm

Opening Event :
Friday 5 December 2025, 5:00pm – 7:00pm

Phoebe Wood-Ingram’s latest solo painting exhibition is about landscape change and the role of nature as a crucible of stillness.

In But I am still and you are still artist Phoebe Wood-Ingram paints of the place she grew up in and loves. Mallacoota, Victoria, described by poet EJ Brady as an ‘Australian Arcadia’, is a land of calm lakes and hills. The paintings look with tenderness on these important water ways in her life. 

Prompted by bush fire’s effect on the landscape that was a source of exploration to her as a child, Phoebe wanted to mark the area’s importance to her. At Double Creek, a walking trail progresses from temperate rainforest through melaleuca forest to an open wetland at the beginning of a vast lake system. This walking trail and its endpoint at the lake has been a ritual walk for her over 40 years. These works explore the survival of a calm emptiness of space and momentous still, through application of oil paint for depth intensity and quiet. 

These works are about loss and renewal while pivoting around the open sense of space and peace. The landscape changes, but the places are still there offering refuge and solace.