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‘From Nature’ – online exhibition

'From Nature' is a community exhibition examining the world around us through materiality and process. Each artist borrows from the natural environment to create their work, either from organic materials collected locally or by allowing their work to be influenced by natural forces.

Michael Adeney combines his experience as an artist, composer, scientist, and psychologist to create works that are formed from and respond to nature. Through drawings, prints, and sound compositions, Adeney's artwork immerses the viewer while delving into themes of impact, connection, and regeneration.

Ravit Tidhar is a mosaic artist working with natural and manufactured materials, including tree bark, tiles, stones, glass, and plastic. Exploring the inherent beauty of the everyday, Tidhar highlights the balance and tension between people and their environment.

Shifting between abstract and figurative imagery, Adeney and Tidhar's creative practice reflects an appreciation of our natural world and its power.

Many of the artworks in this exhibition are for sale. You can purchase an artwork on the Boroondara Arts shop website.

'From Nature' was a free exhibition held at the Town Hall Gallery from 7 June to 15 July 2023.

Image credit: Banner image: Ravit Tidhar, ‘Exploration 2:3’, 2022, bark and plastic on wood substrate, 32 x 32 x 5cm, image courtesy of the artist.

Michael Adeney

An artwork in 3 vertical strips, showing dark buise-like patterns of marks and lines across a pale surface
Michael Adeney, ‘Ada Triptych’, 2023, graphite on Japanese Awagami paper, 155 x 28cm each, image courtesy of the artist.
An artwork in a single vertical strip, showing dark buise-like patterns of marks and lines across a pale surface
Michael Adeney, ‘Where Stars Fall’, 2023, graphite on Japanese Awagami paper, 157 x 31cm, image courtesy of the artist.
An artwork showing thin dark eratic penstrokes on a white canvas, increasing toward a single central area
Michael Adeney, ‘Between Light’, 2022, compressed charcoal, wind and rain, 90 x 70cm, image courtesy of the artist.
An artwork showing thin and blotted purple ink in eratic penstrokes and small dots on a white canvas, increasing toward a single central area
Michael Adeney, ‘Purple Rain’, 2022, ink, wind and rain, 90 x 70cm, image courtesy of the artist.
An artwork featuring a canvas in shades of blue that depict eractic dark stokes and thick blue drips down the canvas that blot and join together
Michael Adeney, ‘Random Chaos’, 2023, cyanotype carbon, wind and rain, 25 x 35cm, image courtesy of the artist.
An artwork showing thin dark eratic penstrokes on a white canvas, increasing toward a single central area
Michael Adeney, ‘Suspended’, 2023, compressed charcoal and wind, 90 x 70cm, image courtesy of the artist.
An artwork showing thin and thick dark erratic penstrokes on a white canvas, increasing toward a single central area
Michael Adeney, ‘Modern Mayhem’, 2022, ink brush and wind, 50 x 70cm, image courtesy of the artist.
An artwork showing thin dark eratic penstrokes and blotted dots on a white canvas, increasing toward a single central area
Michael Adeney, ‘Emergent’, 2022, compressed charcoal and wind, 50 x 35cm, image courtesy of the artist.
An artwork showing thin white eratic penstrokes on a black canvas, that thicken in some areas with dinstance in between the stokes
Michael Adeney, ‘Inner Dialogue’, 2023, chalk pen and wind, 42 x 30cm, image courtesy of the artist.
An artwork showing thick white and slightly transluscent penstrokes on a white canvas, increasing toward the central diagonal line of the canvas area
Michael Adeney, ‘Simplicity’, 2023, chalk pen and wind, 42 x 30cm, image courtesy of the artist.
An artwork showing thin white eratic penstrokes on a dark canvas ending in blots of white, increasing toward a single central area
Michael Adeney, ‘Three Thousand’, 2022, chalk pen and wind, 42 x 30cm, image courtesy of the artist.
An artowrk on a dark canvas, with a single white stroke running down the page to halfway that stops, followed by some small white marks that fall apart down the canvas
Michael Adeney, ‘Delicate’, 2022, chalk pen and wind, 40 x 27cm, image courtesy of the artist.
An artwork showing blue thin eratic penstrokes at the centre of a white canvas with a thick white border around
Michael Adeney, ‘Constellation’, 2022, wind and intaglio, 38 x 28cm, image courtesy of the artist.
An artwork showing dark green thin eratic penstrokes at the centre of a white canvas with a thick white border around
Michael Adeney, ‘Ophelia’, 2022, wind and intaglio, 38 x 28cm, image courtesy of the artist.
An artwork featuring a canvas in shades of blue to white, that depict eractic dark stokes across the canvas
Michael Adeney, ‘Smoke and Wind’, 2023, cyanotype carbon and wind, 35 x 25cm, image courtesy of the artist.
An artwork featuring a canvas in shades of green to white, that that has erratic green strokes across the canvas with blots of green in some areas close together
Michael Adeney, ‘Storm’, 2022, wind and intaglio, 28 x 28cm, image courtesy of the artist.
An artwork showing thin white eratic penstrokes on a black canvas on the right side, and a thick white vertical line on the left side that stretched from the bottom of the canvas almost to the top
Michael Adeney, ‘Code and Chaos’, 2022, chalk pen, wind, fragment of human DNA code, 20 x 32cm, image courtesy of the artist.

Ravit Tidhar

An artwork made of layered pieces of coloured wood that are arrnaged to make a leaf-like shape with a circle inside, and another circle in the top right section
Ravit Tidhar, ‘Breeze’, 2021, wood veneer on wood substrate, 30 x 30 x 5cm, image courtesy of the artist.
An artwork made of layered pieces of coloured wood that are arranged to flow out from the top right orner which has a rick on it and looks like a sun, with darker wood rays coming out from this
Ravit Tidhar, ‘Impact’, 2021, wood veneer on wood substrate, 30 x 30 x 5cm, image courtesy of the artist.
An artwork featuring a mosaic with diagonally thatched strips that are red, orange and yellow, and one diagonal strip is wavy like a snake
Ravit Tidhar, ‘Crossroads’, 2022, stained glass on wood substrate, 33 x 33 x 5cm, image courtesy of the artist.
An artwork featuring a red and white checkered pyramid emerging from a surface made of closely layered stones
Ravit Tidhar, ‘Surfacing’, 2022, slate and stained glass on a multidimensional wood element and tile backing substrate, 60 x 60 x 10cm, image courtesy of the artist.
An artwork featuring a mosaic of seaweed-like strands emerging from the base of a canvas, on a grey background
Ravit Tidhar, ‘Field of Dreams’, 2021, stained glass on wood substrate, 22 x 22 x 2cm, image courtesy of the artist.
An artwork featurign a mosaic of beige square stones, with 5 round rocks protruding in a line across the bottom left corner of the piece, and a bright red vein from the top right spreading 3 quarters down the piece
Ravit Tidhar, ‘A Cut Through’, 2022, stone tiles, river pebbles and stained glass on tile backing substrate, 60 x 60 x 5cm, image courtesy of the artist.
An artwork featuring a mosaic with three black rounded stones making a triangle on a surface and beige square mosaic tiles rippling out from them to meet each other
Ravit Tidhar, ‘Ripples’, 2022, stone tiles and river pebbles on tile backing substrate, 60 x 60 x 3cm, image courtesy of the artist.
An artwork witha central swirling blue circle with wave-like patterns inside, and over the top layered paths that thatch together ad cross over each other while also appearing to curve and emerge from the canvas
Ravit Tidhar, ‘Rebirth’, 2021, stained glass on a multidimensional modelled cement and MDF substrate, 100 x 100 x 18cm, image courtesy of the artist.
An artwork made of layered pieces of coloured wood that are arranged in vertical strips down the canvas with one thin strip of layered pieces of white, and the bottom left corner in a separate section of thin diagonal wooden pieces
Ravit Tidhar, ‘Exploration 1:3’, 2022, bark and plastic on wood substrate, 35 x 35 x 5cm, image courtesy of the artist.
An artwork using strips of bark to divide the square canvas in two, with a gap inbetween where rings interlock around a small spear-like shape
Ravit Tidhar, ‘Exploration 2:3’, 2022, bark and plastic on wood substrate, 32 x 32 x 5cm, image courtesy of the artist.
An artwork made of layered pieces of wood with three horizontal pieces flat in a line on the right of the canvas, and two shapes like musical noted mirroring each other vertically on the left of the canvas, one is white and one is red-brown
Ravit Tidhar, ‘Exploration 3:3’, 2022, bark and plastic on wood substrate, 33 x 33 x 5cm, image courtesy of the artist.
An artwork featuring a mosaic that appears in blues, greens, whites, and navies in a pattern live waves over the area, and 3 rocks in the bottom right corner as well as one in the centre along the base of the artwork
Ravit Tidhar, ‘Longing’, 2021, stained glass on a multidimensional modelled cement and MDF substrate, 100 x 100 x 10cm, image courtesy of the artist.
An artwork featuring a mosaic of natural grey stones vertically arranged close together, with a row of 5 larger rounded stones diagonnally across the picee with bright blue and light blue pieces curving their way between the stones
Ravit Tidhar, ‘Drying Creek’, 2022, slate, smalti, stained glass and rocks on tile backing substrate, 30 x 30 x 5cm, image courtesy of the artist.
An artwork featuring a mosaic of natural beige stones layered to create a mountain-like image with a blue mosaic sky overhead and red yellow and orange pieces flowing down the mountain in streams like lava
Ravit Tidhar, ‘Wounded Country’, 2023, slate tiles, stone and stained glass on wood substrate, 62 x 42 x 5cm, image courtesy of the artist.
An artwork featuring a mosaic with the depiction of a flower with red and yellow pods, surrounded by beige mosaic tiles with root-like tendrils at the top
Ravit Tidhar, ‘Podripple’, 2023, pods, found tiles and smalti on tile backing substrate, 88 x 44 x 5cm, image courtesy of the artist.
An artwork featuring a mosiac that epicts a dry australian landscape that is on fire, with wooden sticks between the mosaic tiles to represent trees
Ravit Tidhar, ‘My Country is Burning’, 2023, tree bark, smalti, found tiles and handmade tiles on wood substrate, 40 x 60 x 5cm, image courtesy of the artist.
An artwork featuring a glass mosaic showing a red flower and a light green flower on a multi-shade green background
Ravit Tidhar, ‘Wild Flower’, 2023, stained glass on wood substrate, 34 x 34 x 5cm, image courtesy of the artist.
An artwork featuring a mosaic with white square stones as a base and blue and light blue tiles running in streams for the top of the canvas
Ravit Tidhar, ‘Rain Upon my Wall’, 2023, smalti and marble on tile backing substrate, 30 x 30 x 3cm, image courtesy of the artist.
An artwork featuring a mosaic of light violet tiles arranged to look like water with a small brown boat made of tiles on the surface
Ravit Tidhar, ‘The Big Dry’, 2023, found tiles, handmade tiles and found objects on tile backing substrate, 30 x 30 x 3cm, image courtesy of the artist.
An artwork featuring a mosaic of white square stones with large natural stones with moss in columns along the base of the artwork and a small sprout of blossoms emerging from the rocks
Ravit Tidhar, ‘Blossom’, 2023, tree bark, found pod, glass filati, paper straw and marble on wood substrate, 34 x 34 x 5cm, image courtesy of the artist.
An artwork featuring a central semicircle mosiac made of counded stones, with red leaves spreading out from it like a sun, and leaves layered on top of each other below like waves
Ravit Tidhar, ‘Daybreak’, 2023, leaves, seeds, ocean tumbled volcanic rock and plastic hose on wood substrate, 40 x 50 x 3cm, image courtesy of the artist.
An artwork featuring a mosaic og square white stones with 5 strips of bark along the centre of the artwork and tiles in red, orange and yellow like a sun underneath these strips and a few orange waves coming off them
Ravit Tidhar, ‘The Golden Hour’, 2023, tree bark, smalti and marble on tile backing substrate, 50 x 50 x 3cm, image courtesy of the artist.

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