Naoise Halloran-Mackay’s 'Horizonites' attends to thresholds between built and natural environments, interior and exterior, opacity and translucency, and the visible and partly concealed. Drawing on the suburban fringes and volcanic plains of Victoria, his works depict fences, scaffolding, half-built houses, paddocks and broad skies alongside the animals that inhabit and move through them. Frogs disappear into grasses, rabbits hop across construction sites, spotted birds settle into new architecture, and a solitary figure sweeps autumn leaves through a space suspended somewhere between interior and exterior.
The exhibition takes its title from Gerald Murnane’s 'The Plains', in which a group of artists fixate on the blue-green haze where land and sky meet. For Murnane’s horizonites, this distant zone is part of the plains themselves, a threshold through which another landscape, one held in possibility, can be imagined.