“You’ve looked at so much and experienced so much colour, so many shapes, and they excite you… Putting them together and pushing them around, it’s frustrating, it’s difficult often, but it’s exciting.” Elisabeth Cummings, 2023 The National Art School is proud to present Radiance: the art of Elisabeth Cummings, a spectacular exhibition celebrating one of the School’s most esteemed and exceptional alumni. The artist’s singular visual language and inimitable grasp of colour are celebrated in major works from the last three decades drawn from public and private collections. Cummings’ paintings are grounded in memory and her experience of place, distilling into visual form her response to her surroundings, including Australia’s unique landforms and ecology, as well as beloved internal spaces. Since the 1970s she has lived and worked in a secluded bushland setting at Wedderburn on Dharawal Country in Sydney’s south-west. Intrepid trips have taken her across the continent to absorb and paint magnificent locations, including the Monaro and Darling regions in NSW, Flinders Ranges in South Australia and the Kimberley in far-north West Australia. She has also travelled and worked extensively overseas. Image: Elisabeth Cummings, Mornington, Kimberley, 2012, oil on canvas, 150 x 175 cm Private Collection. Image courtesy of the artist and King Street Gallery on William