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‘Nowhere to Here’ by Brian Osborne – online exhibition

‘Nowhere to Here’ by Brian Osborne is a community exhibition examining the impact of bushfires on the Australian landscape, communities, and in collective memory.

Like many Victorians, Brian Osborne was affected by the Ash Wednesday and the Black Saturday fires. Osborne processed the devastation of these disasters through his art, capturing the path and evolution of the scorched Australian landscape. Osborne’s abstracted, large-scale paintings track the barren, burnt orange earth as it begins to bear new growth after unimaginable destruction.

This exhibition demonstrates the regenerative nature of the burnt landscape, both as documentation and as a visual metaphor for the lives still being rebuilt after unthinkable hardship. As life re-births from the ashes, it begs the question, ‘where to now from here?’

Many of the artworks in this exhibition are for sale.

Visit our Boroondara Arts shop website to purchase an artwork.

Image credit: Brian Osborne, ‘Landscape 6 (after a photo by John Flannagan)’, 2022, oil on canvas, 102 x 102cm, image courtesy of the artist.
An artwork looking down on a desert looking scene from a birds-eye view, that is scattered with the charred stumps of trees
Brian Osborne, ‘Burnt Landscape 3’, 2019, oil on canvas, 102 x 102cm, image courtesy of the artist.
Price: $800
An artwork looking down on a desert looking scene from a birds-eye view, that is scattered with the charred stumps of trees
Brian Osborne, ‘Burnt Landscape 4’, 2019, oil on canvas, 137 x 137cm, image courtesy of the artist.
Price: $1,500
An artwork showing above and below the red dirt, with small dry plants growing above the ground and small roack and marks in the earth below
Brian Osborne, ‘Bush Landscape’, 2022, oil on canvas, 122 x 122cm, image courtesy of the artist.
Price: $1,000
An artwork of a desert landscape with two rows of colourful squares running across the middle distance of the image
Brian Osborne, ‘Landscape 5’, 2021, oil on canvas, 122 x 122cm, image courtesy of the artist.
Price: $1,000
An artwork of a desert landscape featuring a large collapsed structure of corrogated iron
Brian Osborne, ‘Landscape 6 (after a photo by John Flannagan)’, 2022, oil on canvas, 102 x 102cm, image courtesy of the artist.
Price: Not for sale
An artwork looking over a dry grassy plains landscape, with a road in the middle distance and a red mountain rising in the background under a blue sky with clouds
Brian Osborne, ‘Landscape 7’, 2019, oil on canvas, 102 x 102cm, image courtesy of the artist.
Price: $800
An artwork that is abstrat with lines of black like tree trunks vertical across the piece, and then horizontal colours of purple, white and yellow swirling in the background like an evening sky
Brian Osborne, ‘Night Landscape 1’, 2021, oil on canvas, 102 x 102cm, image courtesy of the artist.
Price: $800
An artwork of a desert landscape with tie marked red dirt in the foreground before the dirt ends in a sharp drop-off, and in the distance you can see red desert plains
Brian Osborne, ‘Contemporary Landscape 2 (after JS)’, 2022, oil on canvas, 102 x 102cm, image courtesy of the artist.
Price: $800
An artwork of a thin waterfall falling down a steep red rock cliff into a small pool around the cliff base
Brian Osborne, ‘The Waterfall’, 2022, oil on canvas, 137 x 137cm, image courtesy of the artist.
Price: $1,200
An artwork looking down on a desert from a high distance, so that the small items covering the desert surface are very small and unrecognisable
Brian Osborne, ‘Landscape 8’, 2022, oil on canvas, 91 x 152cm, image courtesy of the artist.
Price: $800
An artwork featuring a range of progressing natural colours from a landscape, from green with dark cracks that snake through like rivers, to white and then a ridge of black in the centre, with an orange, red and white sky above
Brian Osborne, ‘Landscape 9’, 2022, oil on canvas, 137 x 137cm, image courtesy of the artist.
Price: $1,200
An artwork of a desert scene showing just a glimpse of the desert floor, and filled with a white-grey sky that is featureless
Brian Osborne, ‘Lonely Landscape’, 2022, oil on canvas, 102 x 102cm, image courtesy of the artist.
Price: $800
An artwork looking down on a desert looking scene from a birds-eye view, that is scattered with the charred stumps of trees
Brian Osborne, ‘Burnt Landscape 5’, 2022, oil on canvas, 137 x 137cm, image courtesy of the artist.
Price: $1,500

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