Miranda Hampson
Artwork title: Not Everything Caught is Meant to be Kept
Medium: acrylic and ink on cotton canvas
Size: 101.7 × 91.5 cm
Year: 2026
$4,800
About the Artwork
This work approaches landscape as a network of relationships rather than a fixed view. Drawing from coastal ecologies and traditional ecological knowledge, it is an environment shaped by flow, resistance and intervention. A landscape where currents, tidal shifts and human systems intersect. It considers the ethics of taking, what is kept, what is returned and what cannot be possessed.
About the Artist
Miranda Hampson is an artist of Anaiwan descent, recognised within the Aboriginal community at Uralla and currently practicing on Dharawal Country.
Her practice explores systems of containment and release, drawing on First Nations relationships to Country alongside her background in cultural heritage management. Through layered mark-making and repetition, Hampson constructs surfaces that hold, resist and eventually yield, mirroring the pressures placed on human, ecological and cultural systems.
Her work considers what is carried, what is constrained, and what must be released, positioning landscape not as a fixed entity but as a dynamic field of tension, memory and exchange.
Photo: Xiaoxiao Zhang