Ten Paintings and a Drawing
RED GALLERY
2025

Ten Paintings and a Drawing represents Baglin’s ongoing exploration of and engagement with a lineage of landscape painting which owes more to John Constable and Paul Cezanne than any Australian models, past or present. 

Returning daily to specific Northcote locations, Baglin’s evolution within the landscape tradition is founded on a commitment to drawing on location. In the exhibition, the ten paintings—and one drawing—represent the culmination of four years of daily practice, observing, tracing and retracing points of orientation along Separation Street and Northcote Plaza environs. 

This painterly remaking of Northcote landmarks describes a process of renewal in the face of the mundane, the ordinary, the familiar. Each work is a concentrated survey of the terrain with its own reorienting perspective of the urban milieu. Each point-of-view is a hard-won victory over the chaos of matter and the well-worn principles of Renaissance perspective, suggesting Baglin’s approach to landscape is not to immerse the viewer within a scene but to detail the artist’s efforts to find a viable way in.

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