Stone:Land, Paul Gough

This book was produced in partnership with Paul Gough

Stone:Land is a visual testimony of Paul Gough’s exploration of the vastness of the Australian landscape with its ever-changing terrain and its profound social history.

Stone:Land brings together a collection of more than 80 drawings and paintings by artist Paul Gough during his time in Australia as Pro Vice-Chancellor and Vice President of RMIT University’s College of Design and Social Context. 

Far from the rolling downland and bushy-topped trees of southern England, where Paul trained as a painter, these works show a new appreciation for the intensity of light, the variety of texture and the vivid colours of Australia’s varied scenery. Through his paintings, Paul also offers his respect to the Indigenous cultures that have inhabited this land for thousands of generations.

These works trace the evolution of Paul’s pictorial language as he explores some of Australia’s most iconic and ancient places: the precipitous coastlines that follow the Great Ocean Road, the deep reds and oranges of the central Australian desert, the jagged pinnacles of Western Australia, and the pale sandy dunes of Lake Mungo.