Artworks from Dylan Mooney Intertwined series are on display at Redland Art Gallery.
Drawn from his Intertwined series, the artworks Grevillea Venusta – Grevillea, Graptophyllum Excelsum – Scarlet Fuchsia, and Phaius Australis – Swamp Orchid reflect Mooney’s exploration of connection, identity and the significance of native flora.
Intertwined continues Dylan Mooney’s practice of speaking to resilience, resistance, and connection, shifting the still life genre toward something living, watchful, and culturally charged. Rather than depicting cuttings and arrangements, Mooney observes native flora in situ, using the vitality of plants to mirror the endurance of Indigenous culture and the ongoing relationship to Country.
Across the series, flora becomes a lens onto Australian culture itself, where ideas of belonging, invasion, and stewardship sit close together. By foregrounding living plants, Intertwined highlights resistance to introduced species while celebrating continuance, reframing “still life” as a portrait of persistence. The result is an image-world that feels optimistic without softening its politics, holding pride, tenderness, and strength in the same breath.
Presented as works that fuse Mooney’s digital illustrations with hand-painted Yuwi ochre sourced from Yuwi Country, Intertwined brings traditional material knowledge into direct conversation with contemporary image-making. This blend of digital technology and ochre gives the series its distinctive charge, where colour, surface, and symbolism carry profound substance, and where connection is not an idea, but a material fact.
These works will be on display from 21 June – 25 August 2026.
Artwork:
Dylan Mooney
Grevillea Venusta – Grevillea, 2022
digital illustration hand-painted with Yuwi ochre
120 x 88 cm | ed. of 5 + 2 AP
60 x 44 cm | ed. of 10 + 2 AP
