Onespace is proud to announce that represented artist Jo Lankester is featured in Rockhampton Museum of Art’s (RMOA) new exhibition, ‘Intimacy,’ open from 28 March to 5 July 2026.
Jo Lankester is a printmaker who lives and works in Townsville, North Queensland, Australia. Lankester creates impressive and ravishing prints about the landscape. Her work is powerfully evocative, exuding emotion, memory and a sense of place. For Lankester, the natural environment is a constant source of inspiration providing an endless supply of subjects including found objects, natural forming patterns, textures and colours that translate beautifully through a multitude of printmaking techniques. Lankester seeks out the many stories the landscape has to be told and expresses them in detailed and multi-textured unique state prints. She explores ideas of experience, recollections, and elements of the landscape which convert to colour, line, texture, and form. Her work is specifically inspired by her local regions’ dry and wet tropical landscape, extending west of Townsville to Charters Towers, Magnetic Island, and as far North as Weipa.
‘Intimacy brings together artists whose practices align with the personal, the meditative, the internal and the profound, to create an experience that will stay with the viewer long after they leave the exhibition. With the flood of images available at the swipe of a finger, the average person spends 15-30 seconds looking at a work of art, and suggests an alarming equivalence between the screen of a device and the broader wall of a gallery, a window, or even the world beyond.
Intimacy inverts this – rather than filling the space with ‘Instagrammable’ art works, which tends to favour form and size over substance, Intimacy encourages audiences to spend time with each work, creating memorable and rewarding moments, a personal and emotive whole. Sensitively arranged and lit, and avoiding the fake, the clever, the ironic and the spectacular in favour of the felt, the experienced and the authentic, Intimacy arranges art works that pack an intense emotional punch, curated specifically for the large RMOA space to create an opportunity for communion with each work, and each viewer.’
Images: Louis Lim. Courtesy of the artist and Onespace.