BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//NONSGML Sandhills Development\, LLC//NONSGML Sugar Calendar Fe eds v3.8.2//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Stone Country &\; Heartlands X-WR-CALDESC:Salamanca Arts Centre X-WR-TIMEZONE:Australia/Hobart BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Australia/Hobart BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+1000 TZOFFSETTO:+1100 DTSTART:20251004T160000 TZNAME:AEDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Australia/Hobart BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+1000 TZOFFSETTO:+1100 DTSTART:20251004T160000 TZNAME:AEDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Stone Country &\; Heartlands DESCRIPTION:Cameron Brooke &\; Warren Brooke\n\n\n\nExhibition Dates :Friday 20 February - Sunday 1 March 20269:30am - 5:00pm daily \;\n\ n\n\nOpening Event : Friday 20 February 2026\, 5:30pm - 7:30pm\n\n\n\nA father and son in rare and electrifying dialogue: Stone Country channels raw\, ancient energies of place\; Heartlands commands light with master ful clarity. Two powerful bodies of work collide across lineage and land scape\, offering a radical\, luminous reimagining of how Australia—and art itself—can be felt\, held\, and seen.\n\n\n\nStone County - works by Cameron Brooke\n\n\n\nI don’t paint what a landscape looks like.I paint what it does to me.\n\n\n\nStone Country emerges from the charged edges of Tasmania and Arnhem Land— threshold landscapes where the worl d thins\, where stone hums\, where something ancient presses close. Thes e are ecological and energetic crossroads that humans have gravitated to ward across the ages. These are places I’ve lived in\, worked to prote ct\, and learned to move through with patience: walking\, listening\, te nding\, letting the land lead.Years spent living simply in these places taught me that the land is a living intelligence\, carrying old stories and unseen energies that move through the body long before they ever sur face in paint.My process begins in stillness: long\, quiet time on count ry without making a mark\, allowing the world to press close until insti nct overtakes thought. The painting arrives later in the studio in a kin d of storm—oils squeezed straight from the tube\, dragged by hand\, ra g\, weight\, breath. No sketches. No safety net. Only surrender. The wor ds\, Trust the madnesshas lived across my easels for years\; it’s beco me the quiet engine behind everything I make\, a reminder to step aside and let the land speak in its own force and rhythm.As you enter this exh ibition\, come as you would to a sacred place—quiet\, open\, unguarded . Let these works meet you as the land met me: not as images\, but as pr esence. As a living current. As something still speaking\, still very mu ch alive.Website: www.cambrookeart.com.au \n\n\n\nHeartlands - works by Warren Brooke\n\n\n\nHeartlands brings together a lifetime of painting†”works created across decades yet rarely seen until now. I first exhibit ed in Adelaide in the mid-1960s\, alongside artists such as Sidney Nolan \, Hans Heysen\, Ainsley Roberts\, and Ivor Hele. Even then\, I felt com pelled to follow my own path\, and this exhibition reflects that long-st anding instinct.What sets these works apart is the way I use light. Ligh t is not simply something that falls across the landscape\; it is the me dium itself. It is the vehicle through which my hand moves\, the force t hat shapes each composition. I work until light\, gesture\, and story se ttle into harmony on the canvas. My approach is a conscious counterpoint to the directionstaken by much contemporary painting. Instead of fragme ntation or spectacle\, I pursue clarity—an intimacy between viewer\, p lace\, and moment.These paintings draw on the deep traditions of the old masters\, the Impressionists\, and the great Australian painters who ca me before me. Yet they also seek something new: an expression that lies between impression and emotion\, between memory and presence. If you fin d yourself held by these works—if you linger\, if they stay with you\, if you feelsomething shift or settle inside—then the work has done it s job. In that moment\, I am released from it.This is the Heartlands.Web site: www.warrencharlesbrooke.com\n\n\n\n\n\nAccessibility\n\n\n\nAccess ible Toilet (located on Level 1 and in the Courtyard)Registered Assistan ce Animals welcomeWheelchair Accessible (via Lift in the Courtyard)\n\n\ n\n\n\nWarren Brooke / Back Lane / 2022 / Oil on canvas / 99.5cm x 92cm\ n\n\n\nCameron Brooke / Falling Mountain boulder field / 2025 / Oil on c anvas/ 155cm x 124.5cm URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.sac.org.au/events/stone-country-heartlands/ UID:urn:uuid:dc77b103-b668-4b79-a1f1-bfba2ce3c9e6 STATUS:CONFIRMED ORGANIZER: DTSTAMP:20260512T143955Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260220 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260301 LOCATION:Salamanca Arts Centre END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR