Across the Channel Study 1 & Study 2, 2013, Caroline Rannersberger
Acrylic, oil and pigment on wood panel, set of 2: 40cm x 35cm
Provenance: Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne.
Exhibited: Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne 2012.
Caroline Rannersberger is a Tasmanian painter and printmaker, who also sits as the Director of the Bruny Island Foundation. Her landscapes are primarily on large scale linen panels, and capture her Tasmanian surroundings along with her German heritage. In 2017 she was appointed to the Australia Council's Pool of Peers assessment panel, and in 2016 she curated Bruny Island: EDGE2 Isthmus as a part of MONA’s MOFO festival in Hobart (1).
The two studies in Across the Channel were presented by Caroline Rannersberger as part of the Movement of Disappearance collection. In these works she continued her conversation with the land and with vision. Moving beyond merely capturing the landscape, she engages with a more hallucinatory view of the world. Each piece moves from a direct encounter in the field, to completion in the studio (2).