Collection Twenty Five | 'Frontier' by Ken Knight

Knight's most recent expedition was to Antarctica in February 2020.

His goal to create 75 artworks in 7 days was a quest that changed him.

 “This was Nirvana, Eden and a fragile Utopia rolled into one. It was a remote and meditative atmosphere so ancient that I felt insignificant. Setting up my easel on deck, and working long days, I saw whales breaching, mountains rising from the ice and wild transitions of light. The mutable conditions had me painting like quick-silver as just as I set up one tonal palette the sky would shift.”

The primal quality of the works in this show is undeniable and so is their sense of urgency. As a wilderness, Antarctica stands on the brink. Each painting in 'Frontier' asks us to rise as custodians of earth's most pristine and vulnerable terrain.

So captivating was this body of work that the Gosford Regional Gallery promptly secured the paintings for a public exhibition in 2021 attracting over 6,000 visitors, providing these works with an important provenance. The exhibition at Rochfort Gallery will be the first time these works will be offered for sale. It can be seen as a unique privelege to acquire a work that carries such significance.