Place of Repose

We are thrilled to welcome New England based artist Liz Priestley to Murrurundi!

Place of Repose assembles nine beautiful new pieces in what will be Priestleys’ debut showing with Michael Reid Murrurundi. In recent years, Priestley has garnered considerable attention across the country for her stunning encaustic landscape works.

By using encaustic as her primary medium, which involves the use of heated wax and oil paint, Priestley creates layers, adding texture and luminosity to her atmospheric landscape paintings. Her work explores the immediate physical landscape as well as that of the internal landscape of memory and emotional connections to place and time. The resulting image is the vehicle by which the viewer may experience their own epiphany of personal, binding memories.