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The Redlands Coast Visitor Information Centre has moved!
Find us in our new location at 50 Middle Street, Cleveland next to the library.
Apprehendsion is an exhibition of recent multi-panelled paintings by Leigh Schoenheimer that are based on her research into flora and fauna of south-east Queensland and northern New South Wales, including elements that are both endangered and endemic, native and invasive. These bring together the artist’s longstanding interest in painting as a way of seeing – an interplay of image and idea explored through iterations of realism, abstraction and text – with her unease about the impact of colonisation on the local natural environment. Schoenheimer’s portmanteau ‘apprehendsion’, encapsulates these dual concerns and their relationship: a method used to apprehend, in the form of painting as a mode of perception and understanding, is used to express apprehension, in the form of ecologically-minded anxiety.
Apprehendsion includes work from two of Schoenheimer’s existing series, The Meaning of (Still) Life: An Unnatural History (2021-2022) and Still-Scapes: Tweed Weeds (2022).”