This Must Be The Place
Jane Helmers, Vanessa Rowe and Steve Tomlin
12–27 July

This Must Be the Place draws on the 1980s Talking Heads song to explore a connection to nature and self through landscape. Blending domestic, urban, and natural settings, the works reflect on strength, vulnerability, and belonging, evoking home as a feeling amid the tensions of an uncertain world.

Through landscape, and painting in a style between figuration and abstraction, the work is inspired by a wide range of sources, from personal experience, memory, imagination and travel posters. Each work draws on observing forms in nature—glimpses of sky, moon, space, rock, flora and water—to explore imagined landscapes that feel both otherworldly and inward. The forms distort, layer, shift, and tunnel into a dreamlike space: a cave of light shaped by memory, moonlight and feeling. 

Each work may not represent a familiar ‘real’ place. More likely a place where an inner world becomes just as vivid and unique as that outside.