Invisible Cities | John Lendis

  • John Lendis, Cambridge
  • John Lendis, Raphael's Forest II
  • John Lendis, When the Winter Finds You
  • John Lendis, Charing Cross
  • John Lendis, Four Fold Screens
  • John Lendis, Killyleagh
  • John Lendis, Lambeth Bridge
  • John Lendis, Looking Back
  • John Lendis, Ludgate Station
  • John Lendis, Stars on the River
  • John Lendis, The Dream
  • John Lendis, The Fog Bridge
  • John Lendis, Trinity
  • John Lendis, Watchtower
  • John Lendis, Derry
  • John Lendis, Rooms that Face the Ocean
  • John Lendis, Bridge
  • John Lendis, Island
  • John Lendis, First Voyage
  • John Lendis, Homeward Bound
  • John Lendis, Moon/Halo
  • John Lendis, Wilderness
  • John Lendis, After the Deluge
  • John Lendis, Purple Mountains

Invisible Cities
22 April - 12 May 2009

John Lendis has been a professional artist for over thirty years, exhibiting regularly both in Australia and internationally. He has received an Australian Post-Graduate Research Award, and grants from Arts Tasmania and The National Association of Visual Arts. After completing his Master of Fine Arts at the University of Tasmania in 2006 he has been working in England, and has recently been Artist in Residence at the Scott Polar Research Institute in the University of Cambridge. He is currently working towards exhibitions in Canada and the UK.

This exhibition is about the idea of a city: a city made up of memories, experiences, images and dreams of many cities; a city that is known and owned by one person; one person walking streets at dawn, before the city wakes, when its buildings and streets and roads and rivers can be possessed and filled up with songs and memories and love and sadness. A city where everything dissolves into everything else; where walls become trees, where icebergs float down a river, and where cathedrals tower below secret rooms that let you look out across a world that you have created, a world that is yours alone.