On Saturday AUGUST 9 from 1:30pm, please join us at King Street Gallery on William for an afternoon with Amanda Penrose Hart in conversation with Dr Sarah Engeledow.

Amanda Penrose Hart is an en plein air painter based in Sofala, NSW. She has been exhibiting with King Street Gallery on William since 2003. Amanda studied at Queensland College of Art, Brisbane, and received her BA in Fine Arts from Griffith University, Brisbane. Award highlights include the 2024 Calleen Art Award and 2017 Gallipoli Art Prize. Her work explores historical and environmental themes, featured in exhibitions like Your Friend the Enemy and River on the Brink. Her work is held in major Australian public collections.

Independent curator and writer Dr Sarah Engledow recently curated her twenty-first exhibition, the popular hit Precious, for Museum of Brisbane. She has written copiously on Australian art and history and spoken frequently on radio, film and at diverse venues including the National Portrait Gallery, Australian Parliament House, Australian National University and a number of private clubs and commercial galleries. She has a long association with King Street Gallery, beginning with the curation of the touring exhibition Jenny Sages: Paths to Portraiture (2010-1013). She has recently written an introduction for a forthcoming book on the contemporary ceramicist Nicolette Johnson, and is currently curating a yet-to-be-announced solo exhibition at South East Contemporary Art Centre, Bega. She is an admirer of Amanda’s work as well as a friend of Amanda’s.

Refreshments will be provided on arrival. We look forward to your company this coming Saturday, August 9 to hear Amanda and Dr Sarah Engledow in conversation, and and view her current show White Water.

If you require accessibility accommodations or a visitor assistance, please contact King Street Gallery staff via email: art@kingstreetgallery.com, or phone: 02 9360 9727. This event will be recorded.

🔔When: Saturday, AUGUST 9

📅 Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM, arrival from 1:30pm.

📍Where: King Street Gallery on William, located 177-185 William Street, Darlinghurst.

Painting en plein air situates Amanda in direct conversation with [the] elements, allowing the landscape to reveal itself slowly, across hours or seasons. Her clouds are not decorative; they are meditations on impermanence, painted with palette knife and memory alike. They cast shadows that transform land and water yet hold their own shifting palette—iridescent mollusc pinks, mustards, mauve and stark greys—until the sun breaks through or disappears beyond the horizon line. In this way, place is not merely observed but lived, built from these fleeting interactions between body, light, and air.

- Excerpt from Teah Linnegar's catalogue essay (2025).

Image: Amanda Penrose Hart outside her residency studio in Strathnairn, ACT. Photographer: Riste Andrievski, 2025.