"The significance of place holds a strong vibrating resonance in Laura Matthews' work: cityscapes, coastlines, rolling hills or desolating violent planes of the Australian land. In this she has something in common with her British predecessors of the London School; Frank Auerbach or Lucian Freud who was a strong influence at the Slade School of Fine Art. For these artists the bodily connection to, and location in, 'a place' was central to the aim of depicting place, both in the subject matter and in the actual materiality of paint. Matthews seamlessly connects the elements of place, and the visceral way in which we physically, bodily respond to the land.
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