In the Studio with Ken Knight, Frontier Antarctica Series

Rochfort Gallery is pleased to present Frontier, a rare series of paintings generated not from photography, but from a palpable sense of place. The artist, Ken Knight invites us all to celebrate raw beauty and the dignity and mystery of a wild frontier. Renowned Australian landscape painter Ken Knight has been said to follow the grand tradition of Streeton and Roberts. In the four decades he has been painting, every canvas is made plein air, right in the heart of wherever his mobile studio takes him. Rigging up Troopy, an army jeep bedecked with oils, his French easel and his trusted saw (for spontaneous resizing), Knight is an allterrain painter accustomed to long days chasing the light while reinventing the line. In over 60 solo shows, his passion for the natural world has forged a contemporary style with a gutsy gestural signature. Broad strokes and energised composition revive the places we know well and the far reaches we are likely to never see. In this spirit, Knigh