We acknowledge the Gadigal of the Eora Nation, the traditional custodians of the Country on which the Art Gallery of NSW stands.

Luke Sciberras Buffalo country, Katherine, NT

oil on board

124.5 x 162.5 cm

Buffalo country takes me back to a journey through the grasslands and along the escarpments of Katherine in the Northern Territory. A wild place, entirely unpredictable and immensely powerful, this is a landscape where people and animals are pitted against each other and are at once enmeshed. The dynamic is just as complex between European and Indigenous inhabitants. Here is a painterly response reflecting something of this place of harmony and of paradox.

- Luke Sciberras, 2016