To a place I have never been: Adam Nudelman
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TO A PLACE I HAVE NEVER BEEN
5 – 21 FEBRUARY, 2026
In To a Place I Have Never Been, Adam Nudelman presents a body of work that inhabits the fluctuating threshold between sea and land. While the paintings do reference specific coastal locations—Cape Pillar in Tasmania, Wilsons Promontory, Cape Schanck, Byron Bay—these places are not rendered as documentation, but instead reconstructed through imagination and emotional recall, operating as liminal landscapes that lean into the sublime rather than the literal.
Nudelman’s seascapes resist narrative certainty. They offer neither a clear point of arrival, nor a fixed sense of place. Horizons stretch endlessly, waters remain calm yet inscrutable, monumental rock formations rise with an almost ceremonial gravity. It is clear Nudelman is echoing a long tradition of Romantic landscape painting. Here, nature is not passive scenery but an active psychological force; it humbles, unsettles, and forces introspection on even the most unsuspecting viewer.