LIGHTHOUSE
Robin Gibson Gallery’s 50th Anniversary Exhibition
6 – 27 June 2026
opening 3-5pm Saturday 6 June
Vilma Bader
Peter Baka
Richard Byrnes
Tom Carment (courtesy King Steet Gallery on William)
Amy Crowther
Margaret Early
David Eastwood
Guy Gilmour
Geoff Harvey
Andrew Hopkins
Paul Maher
Sassy Park
Ian Pearson
Jeff Rigby
Samantha Stephenson
Terry Stringer
and recent graduates
Sasha Hart
Til Kathriner
Omi McCurdie
Oliver McLachlan
Imogen Eve Rowe
Charlotte Vanderstappen
Peter Baka
Come and sail your ships around me
mixed media including fairy lights
approximately 70cm high
$1,800
Vilma Bader
Thrídrangaviti and the Midnight Sun 2026 41×26cm acrylic on primed calico, cotton thread, hand stitch
$850
Thrídrangaviti Lighthouse, located off the southwest coast of Iceland, is one of the world’s most isolated lighthouses. Perched atop a remote sea stack 36.5 metres (120 feet) above the ocean, the active lighthouse was constructed between 1938 and 1939 under the direction of engineer Árni Þórarinsson.
Building the lighthouse required extraordinary determination and ingenuity. Skilled climbers from the Westman Islands established access to the sea stack by drilling metal spikes into the rock face and linking them with chains to create a climbing route. Near the summit, where no natural handholds existed, they formed a three-person human ladder to reach the top.
The hand stitching throughout my work echoes the painstaking, entirely manual construction of the lighthouse. Each stitch references the labour, endurance, and precision required to build such a remarkable structure by hand in an extreme and isolated environment.
The work is also connected to my experience of the midnight sun, a phenomenon I witnessed during the same year that I encountered Thrídrangaviti.
Tom Carment
Corny Point Lighthouse – Nine Views 2024
35×230cm (framed size)
oil on marine ply
(courtesy King Street Gallery on William)
$16,000


