NATALIE ANDERSON ANCHORED
Anchored New paintings by Natalie Anderson
October 30 - November 23, 2025
33-35 Hesse Street
Queenscliff, Victoria
Salt Contemporary
Front: The Sea Dance, 2025, oil on canvas, 90x120cm
Left: You Need No Name, You Are the Ocean (detail) 2025, oil on canvas, 75x175cm
NATALIE ANDERSON
For better or worse, I am deeply affected by the goings on in the world. So once again painting becomes a refuge and anchors me both in gratitude and the peace. Something that seems so precious right now.
These works are my ode to the familiar, even adored places that I visit again and again, surrounding my home in the Barrabool Hills. The places that give me stability and keep me grounded whilst still inspiring awe in each new light and season.
‘To be a wanderer and to be home’ in this beautiful part of the world, must surely be the ultimate blessing. The comfort and predictability of being anchored in place is something that I value very highly as the daughter of a minister who frequently moved, family in tow.
I changed schools five times as a child and remember longing to stay in one place. Even as a very young child I remember wanting with all my heart to hang on to the ‘feel’ of a place I had grown to love – to imprint it on my consciousness so that I could carry it with me when the inevitable time to move on, arrived.
So it is through this lens that these new paintings might be viewed. I’m still practising ‘imprinting’; still making sure I secure the essence of place within me by visiting and revisiting - then heading back to the studio and painting them.
Compositionally, I’ve used orientation to emphasize vastness and silence: drawing the eye skyward to breathe in the expansiveness of atmosphere, and outward across the languid horizontal of the ocean at dawn.
I also return to the sailor’s perspective — looking over the side of the boat as water dances to avoid the bow, the horizon tilting as the boat heels against the wind.
As always, I am most interested in the quality of light as it grows and fades – dawn, days end, seasons, the firsts, the lasts- a moment that slips quietly into another, captured and held … the first frost, the straw coloured Barrabool hills in late summer, the ocean at dawn, heading home, coming in.
Looking back, perhaps I am still trying to hold onto something through painting— to imprint, to remember, to stay. Whatever the case, I think the younger me would be glad to know that she finally found a place to drop anchor.
Calm the Chattering Mind, 2025, oil on canvas, 75x175cm | $5,600
You Need No Name, You Are the Ocean, 2025, oil on canvas, 75x175cm | $5,600
The Sea Dance, 2025, oil on canvas, 90x120cm | $4,900
The Wanderings of Water, 2025, oil on canvas, 90x120cm | $4,900
Front Beach with Scout, 2025, oil on linen, 120x80cm | $4,600
The Flight Path of Swallows (Barwon Heads), 2025, oil on linen, 120x80cm | $4,600
Towards Belinda’s Farm, 2025, oil on linen, 120x80cm | $4,600
View from Kathryn’s Farm (Ceres), 2025, oil on linen, 120x80cm | $4,600
View from Leesa’s Garden (Ceres), 2025, oil on linen, 120x80cm | $4,600
Seachurn, 2025, oil on canvas, 80x100cm | $3,900
Why We Wake Early, 2025, oil on canvas, 80x100cm | $3,900
In Dreams and Even Awake, 2025, oil on canvas, 70x70cm | $2,900
Left: First Frost, 2025, oil on linen, 80x45cm | $2,400
Right: Let’s Stay the Night (Apollo Bay), 2025, oil on linen, 80x45cm | $2,400
Left: Nocturne, 2025, oil on canvas, 80x45cm | $2,400
Right: Scouting (Torquay to Jan Juc), 2025, oil on linen, 80x45cm | $2,400
Right: Wetlands, 2025, oil on linen, 80x45cm | $2,400
Left: Summer on Polley’s Road (Ceres), 2025, oil on linen, 80x45cm | $2,400
When and Where, 2025, oil on linen, 61x61cm | $2,400
SELECTED CV
Born 1970 - Melbourne Australia
Self taught
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Anchored, Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff, Victoria
2024 The Seafarer’s Dream, Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff, Victoria
2023 Long shadows, quiet Light, Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff, Victoria
2022 I AM, Van Rensburg Galleries, Milton, NSW
2022 Refuge, Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff, Victoria
2021 Uncharted, Boom Gallery, Newtown, Victoria
2021 Wanderings, Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff, Victoria
2020 Wonder II, Van Rensburg Galleries, Milton, NSW
2019 n:cloudage, Boom Gallery, Newtown, Victoria
2019 Wonder, Parasol Projects, Van Rensburg Galleries, New York, USA
2018 Close to Home, Boom Gallery, Newtown, Victoria
2017 Yearning, Boom Gallery, Newtown, Victoria
2016 Ocean, Boom Gallery, Newtown, Victoria
2015 Meetings with the Southern Ocean, Boom Gallery, Newtown, Victoria
2014 Wayfaring, Boom Gallery, Newtown, Victoria
2012 Apercu, Boom Gallery, Newton, Victoria
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 ‘Papermade: Contemporary works on paper’, Salt Contemporary, Queenscliff, Victoria
Ripper Art Prize exhibition, Gallery Jones, Ripponlea, Victoria
2024 Wet Areas, Gallery Jones, Ripponlea, Victoria
2023 Home, Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff, Victoria
2023 Wet Areas, Gallery Jones, Ripponlea, Victoria
2022 Every Life, Offspring, The Ko, Newtown, Victoria
2022 Pleasure Garden, Gallery Jones, Ripponlea, Victoria
2022 Home, Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff, Victoria
2020 Bellarine and Beyond, Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff, Victoria
2020 The Art of Summer, Van Rensburg Galleries, Milton NSW
2019 Home, Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff, Victoria
2019 Share the Dignity, Happenstore, Sydney, NSW
2019 Terrain, Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff, Victoria
2019 You Yangs, Boom Gallery, Newtown, Victoria
2018 A Painted Landscape, Special Group Studios, Surry Hills, NSW
2018 AAF, Van Rensburg Galleries, New York, USA
2018 AAF, Van Rensburg Galleries, Hong Kong
2017 Boom Gallery Xmas Show, Boom Gallery
2017 AFF, Van Rensburg Galleries, New York
2016 William Buckley: Belonging, Boom Gallery, Newtown, Victoria
2015 Summer Projects, Boom Gallery, Newtown, Victoria
2014 Boom Gallery Christmas show
2014 Dog Rocks, Boom Gallery, Newtown, Victoria
2013 Merrang, Boom Gallery, Newtown, Victoria
2013 Big Boom, Boom Gallery, Newtown, Victoria
2012 Small Works, Christmas show, Boom Gallery, Newtown, Victoria
2012 Forest(s), Boom Gallery, Newtown, Victoria
PUBLICATIONS AND MEDIA
• Country Style Australia – Art Edition, March issue 2025
• ‘A Painted Landscape – Across Australia from Bush to Coast’ – Amber Creswell Bell, Thames and Hudson 2018
• Modern Country Homes, Book 2023
• Inside Out Magazine, November Issue 2020
• Art Edit Magazine 2020
• Home Beautiful Magazine, March issue 2021
• Austin’s Wine – Limited Edition Wine labels 2022 and 2024
AWARDS
2025 Ripper Art Prize - Finalist
2015 NAB Flanagan Art Prize - Finalist
2015 ANL Maritime Prize - Finalist
2015 Kardinia International College Art Prize - Second Prize
New paintings by Natalie Anderson
October 30 - November 23, 2025
Salt Contemporary
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