signed lower right: H S Tiernan
copyright the artist

Tiernan’s recent paintings playfully remind us that landscapes are neither innocent or pristine, but rather, cultured spaces; repositories of ancient knowledge and deep memory where, from an Indigenous Australian perspective, they are storied with Songlines and Tjukurrpa and inflected with the moralities arising from mythology that remind us of how values and identities formed. Wrong Way makes a statement about climate change and environmental concerns.