Artist: Denise Cox
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 90cm x 60cm
Frame: Unframed
Shipping: Free Australia wide
Hidden Stories is a meditation on fragility—on the delicate, often unseen layers of history embedded within the landscapes of lutruwita/Tasmania. The work invites viewers to pause and consider the silent narratives that shape the land: stories of deep time, natural evolution, and the vulnerable traces of human presence.
Through heavily layered textures and acrylic surfaces, the painting echoes the terrain of the island—its crusted edges, eroded forms, and accumulated marks. Yet these layers are not fixed; they suggest surfaces that can crack, shift, or be worn away. Beneath them lie fragments of a well-known children’s novel, physically embedded within the canvas. Their partial concealment speaks to fragility: of memory, of stories, and of histories that can be easily obscured, damaged, or forgotten.
The inclusion of this text highlights the tension between what is preserved and what is lost—between dominant narratives and those that remain vulnerable to erasure. It reflects the fragile balance between fiction and truth, myth and lived experience, and raises the question: whose stories endure, and whose are at risk of disappearing?
This work is both a tribute and a quiet warning. A tribute to the ancient yet vulnerable landscapes of lutruwita/Tasmania, and a reflection on how easily the stories written upon them—human and non-human alike—can be fractured, buried, or lost if not held with care.
Artist: Denise Cox
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 90cm x 60cm
Frame: Unframed
Shipping: Free Australia wide
Hidden Stories is a meditation on fragility—on the delicate, often unseen layers of history embedded within the landscapes of lutruwita/Tasmania. The work invites viewers to pause and consider the silent narratives that shape the land: stories of deep time, natural evolution, and the vulnerable traces of human presence.
Through heavily layered textures and acrylic surfaces, the painting echoes the terrain of the island—its crusted edges, eroded forms, and accumulated marks. Yet these layers are not fixed; they suggest surfaces that can crack, shift, or be worn away. Beneath them lie fragments of a well-known children’s novel, physically embedded within the canvas. Their partial concealment speaks to fragility: of memory, of stories, and of histories that can be easily obscured, damaged, or forgotten.
The inclusion of this text highlights the tension between what is preserved and what is lost—between dominant narratives and those that remain vulnerable to erasure. It reflects the fragile balance between fiction and truth, myth and lived experience, and raises the question: whose stories endure, and whose are at risk of disappearing?
This work is both a tribute and a quiet warning. A tribute to the ancient yet vulnerable landscapes of lutruwita/Tasmania, and a reflection on how easily the stories written upon them—human and non-human alike—can be fractured, buried, or lost if not held with care.
