When:
30 & 31st March 2024
​2pm- 5pm
Where: 
​ 32 Ocean Park Dr
​ Marengo
Website:
victoriahowlett.com.au

Howlett is a professional artist working in Apollo Bay using the surrounding landscape as inspiration for her work.

​Her mediums range from watercolour, collage, drypoint and acrylic, to large works in oils.
For many years Victoria Howlett has played with the connection between landscape, memory and an evocation of place. From the early landscape paintings of Busty Road, Apollo Bay, viewed through a foreground of still life objects, to her more abstract images and enigmatic three dimensional ceramic 'tor' configurations, a visual lexicon of forms has developed that gathers the motifs and memory of sites as varied as the Flinders Ranges, Lake Mungo, Mutawintji and Apollo Bay. In her PhD In Pursuit of Desire Lines: A Woman in the Landscape, Howlett documented the experiences of her women’s bush and coastal painting camps, working ‘en plein air’ in sites that varied from the lushness of ‘Bundanon’ and Broome to the dry plains of Silverton and Noonkanbah in the Great Sandy Desert. Drawing on her wide international and national exhibition history, and her experience of several decades as a lecturer in arts practice, her oeuvre continues its re-invention. Some Selected Collections: NGV, National Gallery Canberra, Art Gallery SA & WA, Parliament House Canberra, Australian Embassy Iran, Powerhouse Museum Sydney, Regional Galleries Manly, Newcastle, Ballarat, Shepparton, Bathurst, Bendigo, Geelong, New England, State Craft Collection, Australia Craft Council, Art Bank, Victoria Ministry for the Arts, Latrobe University, University of Melbourne. ​