Group exhibition: Vanessa Rowe, Steve Tomlin and Jane Helmers
Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
12-27 July, 2025

This Must Be the Place draws on the 1980s Talking Heads song to explore a connection to nature and self through landscape. Blending domestic, urban, and natural settings, the works reflect on strength, vulnerability, and belonging, evoking home as a feeling amid the tensions of an uncertain world.

Through landscape, and painting in a style between figuration and abstraction, the work is inspired by a wide range of sources, from personal experience, memory, imagination and travel posters. Each work draws on observing forms in nature - glimpses of sky, moon, space, rock, flora and water - to explore imagined landscapes that feel both otherworldly and inward. The forms distort, layer, shift, and tunnel into a dreamlike space: a cave of light shaped by memory, moonlight and feeling. 

Each work may not represent a familiar ‘real’ place. More likely a place where an inner world becomes just as vivid and unique as that outside.