Northwood's fifth solo exhibition, Love and Fear, considers the entanglement of vulnerability, transformation and ecological becoming. Emerging from a period marked by environmental upheaval and collective uncertainty, the exhibition reflects on the ways lived experience is shaped by forces that exceed the individual, where the boundaries between body, landscape and atmosphere become increasingly porous.

Comprising six large-scale paintings, the exhibition extends Northwood's ongoing investigation into the affective dimensions of abstraction. Rather than depicting place, the works register encounters between internal and external conditions, where sensation, memory and environment coalesce. Love and fear are approached not as opposing emotional states, but as relational forces that structure perception and orient our experience of instability, intimacy and care.

Developed through an intuitive and materially responsive process, these paintings inhabit the threshold between psychic and ecological space. They gesture towards cycles of dissolution and renewal, suggesting that transformation emerges through sustained attention to uncertainty rather than its resolution. In this way, Love and Fear proposes abstraction as a site through which individual experience becomes entangled with broader questions of collective existence, interdependence and resilience.

death dance, 2020 60 x 60cm found pigment, acrylic, ink

stained heart, 2020 100 x 80cm found pigment, charcoal, acrylic

ocean sounds, 2020 60 x 60cm found pigment, acrylic

searching, 2020 60 x 60cm found pigment, charcoal, ash, acrylic

bushfire, 2020 60 x 60cm charcoal, found pigment, acrylic