Tiarna Herczeg’s latest series of work is inspired by the invigorating feeling of emerging from cold water into the warm embrace of the sun. These works capture a feeling that has chased Tiarna her whole life, from New South Wales up to Queensland and back, memories of childhood and her family’s annual trip to Rockhampton.

Says Herczeg of this series, “We would leave home in NSW around  4AM, driving up and stopping in old Country towns along the way to stretch our legs. I used to fantasise about how nice it must be to be one of those families that could fly, but I’m grateful we stopped there and I got to be a visitor in so many places most wouldn’t go. I’d look out the window and find shapes in the sky or in-between telegraph poles, it was always warm and always equally as boring as it was exciting. We would get to Rocky at night and all I could think about were those families swimming in Fiji. We had rain and frogs but now I’m an adult, I can swim – and that’s nice.”