This May, The Pop-Up Project is proud to share Seven Seasons, a vibrant Bowral art exhibition bringing together seven women artists from the Southern Highlands for a group show shaped by creativity, change and lived experience.
Running from 28 May to 2 June 2026 at Bowral Art Gallery, Seven Seasons is an exhibition about more than artwork alone. It is about transition, identity, resilience and creative momentum. Across painting, sculpture, fibre art and mixed media, the exhibition reflects the distinct seasons each artist is living through right now.Visitors are also warmly invited to attend Drinks with the Artists on Saturday 30 May from 4pm to 6pm, offering the opportunity to meet the artists and experience the exhibition in a relaxed and welcoming setting.
A Southern Highlands art exhibition shaped by personal seasons
As a platform dedicated to championing Southern Highlands artists, The Pop-Up Project artist collective exists to create opportunities for local creatives to share their work more widely. Seven Seasons is a beautiful example of that purpose in action.
What makes this Southern Highlands art exhibition especially compelling is its emotional honesty. Each artist approaches the idea of “season” differently. For some, this season is one of discovery. For others, it is about stillness, devotion, reversion, presence, ascension or journey. Together, these works create a layered portrait of what it means to keep making art through all the shifting stages of life.
Rather than presenting a single curatorial theme in the traditional sense, Seven Seasons feels more like a collective snapshot of becoming. It captures seven women artists at meaningful points in their creative lives, each working in her own language, yet connected by a shared commitment to process, truth and expression.
The artists of Seven Seasons
Jacqui Brown: The Season of Ascension
Jacqui Brown is a Southern Highlands artist whose work moves between landscape, cottage-core aesthetics and bespoke interiors. For Seven Seasons, Jacqui presents a body of acrylic paintings that reflects an intensely personal season of growth, uncertainty and emotional honesty.
Her works place furniture in open landscapes, bringing private feeling into public space. Expressive weather, shifting skies and symbolic interiors become ways of exploring rejection, change, endurance and the long path toward self-belief. Rather than dividing life into neat chapters, Jacqui’s work holds many feelings at once – doubt, frustration, vulnerability and the steady determination to keep going.
Living and working in the Southern Highlands, Jacqui paints from a place of lived experience. Her contribution to the exhibition captures a turning point: a refusal to keep pushing creative dreams aside in favour of safety. There is a sense of urgency and emotional release in these works, as though they mark the beginning of a new and more honest chapter.
You can explore more of Jacqui Brown’s artwork on Instagram and through her official artist website.
Sarah Norton: The Season of Discovery
Sarah Norton Creative is an interdisciplinary Australian artist and creative facilitator whose practice brings together clay, fibre and paint. Based in the Southern Highlands, Sarah’s work is grounded in attentiveness to texture, form and process, with creativity approached not as a destination, but as a way of living.
Her current season is one of discovery and play. Moving away from ambition and external competition, Sarah is allowing curiosity, trust and embodied making to lead the work. In the studio, materials become collaborators rather than tools, guiding pace, direction and form through repetition, slowness and responsiveness.
This deeply intuitive approach is evident in the contemplative quality of her work. Whether working in fibre, clay or paint, Sarah creates pieces that feel quiet yet grounded, inviting viewers into a more attentive and reflective mode of seeing. Her contribution to Seven Seasons speaks beautifully to the idea of process as practice, and of creativity as something lived rather than pursued.Explore Sarah Norton’s creative practice on her official website and connect with Sarah Norton on Instagram.
Monique Turczynski: The Season of Devotion
Monique Turczynski is an Australian artist whose contemporary fluid art practice explores nature, the universe and connection. Her works often evoke water, rockpools and cosmic landscapes, inviting reflection while also carrying a strong sense of movement and energy.
For Monique, this current season is one of devotion. Her life is full – motherhood, family, work, home and art all demanding her attention at once – and yet her practice remains a central thread through it all. Fluid painting mirrors that reality perfectly: layered, messy, unpredictable and constantly in motion, before eventually settling into something calm and cohesive.
With nearly a decade of experience in fluid art, Monique has developed a refined understanding of paint movement, chemistry and organic pattern formation. Her works hold both chaos and stillness, offering a powerful visual reflection of a life that feels busy, loud and beautiful all at once. In 2024, she received the BOCCA Art Prize People’s Choice Award, a recognition of the strong emotional connection audiences have with her work.View Monique Turczynski’s contemporary paintings on Instagram and explore her official artist website.
Corinne Dany: The Season of Stillness
Southern Highlands-based artist Corinne Dany creates narrative-rich ceramic sculptures that explore memory, personal history and the architecture of the mind. As the founder of Corinne Dany Studios she has also built a thriving creative space in Mittagong that supports artists and community connection.
Her visual language was shaped early by a life surrounded by books, antiques and art history, as well as by the influence of sculpture within her family. After careers in photography and design, she returned to hands-on making and found in clay the medium that most deeply aligned with her need for slowness, structure and intentionality.
For Seven Seasons, Corinne’s work reflects a season of stillness and inward turning. Through intricate vessels and figurative sculpture, she explores the relationship between physical form and inner mental space. Her current series, Show me a Story, continues that investigation, celebrating both the beauty of the past and the stories still waiting to emerge.
Natalie Will: The Season of Reversion
Southern Highlands artist Natalie Will creates contemporary mixed-media works shaped by storytelling, pattern and repurposed materials. Her practice brings together collage, painting and intricate drawing to create layered landscape compositions that feel both playful and sophisticated.
For Natalie, Seven Seasons reflects the life chapters that have led to this point – daughter, sibling, wife, mother – and the emerging sense that this current season is a return to self. Her work becomes a form of reclamation, one in which identity is no longer defined by roles or relationships, but by an increasingly confident and distinctive visual language.
There is an arresting tension in Natalie’s work between simplicity and complexity. Large areas of colour are interrupted by dense, lace-like patterning and meditative repetition, creating a contemporary interpretation of landscape that is at once graphic, organic and emotionally resonant. With recent residencies, solo exhibitions and prize finalist placements, Natalie continues to build a strong presence in regional contemporary art.
Jodie Kilmister: the season of presence
Jodie Kilmister is a painter living and working in Mittagong on Gundungurra Country. Her work is grounded in close observation of local landscapes, particularly across the shifting seasons of the Southern Highlands, and often leans toward expressionism through bright colour and expressive mark making.
Jodie describes this season of life as one of presence. At midlife, she has committed more deeply to painting as a way of staying focused on the physical world. Her practice is intentionally rooted in painting from life, offering a direct response to shape, colour and atmosphere without reliance on digital processes.
This attentiveness gives her paintings a generosity of feeling. Reflections, repetition, familiar places and everyday beauty are all central to her work. In Seven Seasons, Jodie’s contribution offers a powerful reminder that looking deeply at the world can be both grounding and transformative.
Kate Tribe: the season of the journey
Kate Tribe is a textile artist whose embroidered works are often stitched while travelling by train. Working without rigid pre-planning or detailed patterns, she allows motion, repetition and the rhythm of the journey to shape the work.
For Seven Seasons, Kate turns outward. After a period of stitching more introspective, geometric abstractions, she now focuses on the landscape beyond the train window and the stories gathered along the way. Journeys between Newcastle, Melbourne, Adelaide and the Southern Highlands become source material, with travel companions and passing views transformed through thread and structure.Her work celebrates the joy of noticing. It reminds us that when we begin to enjoy the journey, rather than only the destination, the everyday becomes full of story. In Seven Seasons, Kate’s stitched landscapes and train-born works bring a distinct and quietly joyful energy to the exhibition.
Plan your visit
Seven Seasons will be held at Bowral Art Gallery 1 Short Street, Bowral NSW 2576, from 28 May to 2 June 2026.
Visitors are warmly invited to attend Drinks with the Artists on Saturday 30 May, 4pm to 6pm.To explore more upcoming Southern Highlands art exhibitions, discover The Pop-Up Project artist directory, or learn more about joining The Pop-Up Project in 2026, visit the links above.
