A move to the country has inspired a new perspective to the stunning, emotional views of the natural world that Australian landscape painter Aaron Kinnane has created for Sydney Contemporary. Here, he tells Sophie Tedmanson how working outdoors and in a forest also found him delving into sculpture for the first time.
"For previous works I would travel to different areas spending days at a time walking, looking and then I would come back to the city and make the work in the studio – artificially lit – no windows, air thick with thinners smoke and paint. Now, for the first time in my life, my studio is drenched in natural light, surrounded by windows looking out to hills and forests, birds, sky, river... clean, fresh gulps of beautiful air."
- Sophie Tedmanson, Vogue, 2017
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Aaron Kinnane in his studio, courtesy the artist