Chris Proctor
If I had Known Above The Mountains Lies Eternal Sunshine I Never Would Have Stopped Climbing.
5 April 2025 - 26 April 2025
This body of work explores the profound tension between ambition, struggle, and revelation.
The title, "If I Had Known Above the Mountains Lies Eternal Sunshine I Never Would Have Stopped Climbing," speaks to the human condition - the ever-present push to ascend, to reach, to transcend..desperate for whatever peace or fulfilment awaits on the other side of our toil.
Each piece in this exhibition reflects a journey - some personal, some universal. The mountains act as obstacles, challenges, and aspirations; they represent the highs and lows of life’s pursuits.
The "eternal sunshine" that lies beyond is not just a destination, but an awareness: the moment of clarity, peace, or understanding that comes when we are able to step back and see the bigger picture, or perhaps when we finally pause long enough to notice that we were already there.
These works challenge the viewer to question their own relationships with ambition and stillness - and reflect on the tension between the relentless pursuit of success and the quiet contentment of simply being.
Chris Proctor, 2025
Chris Proctor. The wind doesn’t change for dreamers but it carries them just the same (2025). House paint on found wood. 600x600mm. $650
Chris Proctor. The mountain doesn’t care if you reach the top (2025). House paint on found wood. 600x600mm. $655
Chris Proctor. Somewhere flowers grow where we used to stand (2025). House paint on found wood. 560x570mm. $710
Chris Proctor. Alone together (2025). House paint on found wood. 580x570mm. $800
Chris Proctor. And now the horizon calls me by name in a voice I almost recognise (2025). House paint on found wood. 1210x370mm. $1800
Chris Proctor. The flowers speak of your beauty (2025). House paint on found wood. 685x310mm. $500
Chris Proctor. Everything was supposed to make sense up here (2025). House paint on found wood. 600x345mm. $470
Chris Proctor. Everything we left behind is still there (2025). House paint on found wood. 600x460mm. $585
Chris Proctor. The higher we go the smaller the mountain becomes. 2025. House paint on found wood (cut outs, two pieces). Bird: 590x315mm. Bird + mountain: $550 .
Chris Proctor. The higher we go the smaller the mountain becomes. 2025. House paint on found wood (cut outs, two pieces). Mountain: 600x360mm. Bird + mountain: $550 .
Chris Proctor. Waiting for a sun I have never seen but know, somehow, was waiting for me (2025). House paint on found wood. 600x480mm. $670
Chris Proctor. I know I was but what am I now? House paint on found wood. 900x600mm. $1100
Chris Proctor. I can tell you what’s at the highest peak but I never learnt to fly. House paint on found wood. 910x620mm. $1200
Chris Proctor. Forever free (as a bird). 2025. 1230 mm x 660mm. House paint on found wood. Cut out. $650
Chris Proctor. I stopped climbing and the sky came to me (2025). House paint on found wood. 500mm x 350mm x 500mm $700
Chris Proctor. Where the Earth ends and the sky begins (2025). Multiple cut outs of various small sizes. House paint on both found and recycled wood. $350
Previously at Luminance Gallery…
In This World and Another, Malcolm Harding explores similarities between scientific representation of the natural world and artistic abstraction.
“Many microscopic images have an uncanny similarity to their macroscopic counterparts. Often these images look more like art than science. This observation has captured my interest for many years and is expressed in my paintings through the use of shapes, marks, colours and textures that suggest things that exist in microscopic and macroscopic worlds.
“The paintings employ techniques of chance such as decalcomania and frottage to create organisms such as cells, amoeba, planets or stars. These organisms float on the canvas; they allude to life under a glass slide or the infinity of outer space.
“Some of the works use a finely-etched grid to give an impression of scientific credibility and to suggest a governing principle that holds everything together.
“The grid operates as a visible representation of order. It articulates an organising theory for natural phenomena.”
Art enthusiasts, friends & neighbours gathered to launch Luminance Art Gallery, on Birpai Country, Mid North Coast.