This work is part of Tiarna Herczeg’s latest series of paintings Are You Listening? which seeks to immortalise the often unseen, ephemeral moments of human existence through a discovery of meaning. At the centre of Herczeg’s practice is a deep listening; through her work, she invites the viewer to reflect on the sounds, rhythms and emotions found in the quiet simplicity of her distinctive compositions.

Say Herczeg of this work, “Throughout my life, I’ve found myself constantly being drawn up North. Nothing makes me feel more at home than when I pass the Queensland border. This is a painting drawing north. Similar to Between Rockhampton and Home, the large shape shows the distance and the pink at the bottom for where I am.”

Herczeg is a proud Kuku Yalanji and Hungarian woman and artist who aims to share her experience of dual identity through storytelling. Her vast planes and expressive compositions symbolise how she sees the land, whilst her palettes are tied to her inner psyche and physicality, her spirituality and feelings; one exists in perpetuity and the other only exists for a moment in time.