Judy Trick | FULL CIRCLE | Exhibition

Judy Trick first exhibited with Artsite Contemporary in 2014, and Full Circle marks her third solo exhibition with the gallery, following Surface (2021) and Unearthed (2024). 

Over more than a decade, her practice has been shaped by extensive travel — sketchbook and camera in hand, moving through landscapes across several continents before returning, always, to paint. 

She now works from a studio on the New South Wales South Coast, where the rhythms of the coastline have become as central to her practice as the journeys that preceded them.

"Full Circle is a body of work about return — not as retreat, but as a deepening. 

For years my practice was defined by movement: new places, new light, new ground underfoot. This exhibition marks a turn inward; toward a landscape I now know intimately rather than one I am encountering for the first time.

The paintings in this collection sit at the threshold between observation and memory. Skies dissolve into water; horizon lines blur where sea meets sky meets recollection.

I have worked to hold both the immediacy of a single sitting and the accumulated weight of years spent looking — the way a place changes not because the land moves, but because we do.

There is a kind of homecoming in this work, both literal and formal. The paint sits differently on the canvas now — looser in places, more deliberate in others — as though the years of travel have been folded back into a single, quieter language. 

Full Circle is not a departure from where I began, but a return to it, carrying everything gathered along the way." ~ Judy Trick, 2026