Tolerance

Keryn Hyslop's work is grounded in a lifelong relationship with the Australian landscape and its living creatures. Work primarily with mixed media, drawing, painting, handmade paper, and found or repurposed materials, Keryn is interested in the relationship between place, movement, and belonging - and in the ways landscapes hold traces of where we have been.

Birds appear frequently in Keryn's work. She observes them closely, focusing on how they move, gather, rest, respond to weather, and occupy their environment. Yet she doesn't use them simply as representations of nature - they become participants in a larger conversation about living; about adaptation, resilience, connection, and finding one's place.

Keryn's practice has moved through many places and forms. Rather than seeing movement as something that needs to be resolved, she has come to understand it as part of the work itself. Each place leaves something behind; each experience becomes part of what comes next. Her work encourages others to notice and to wonder, leaving enough room for the viewer to make their own acquaintance with it.

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Two terns fly above a turbulent sea. The water is unsettled, yet the birds move confidently through the wind and waves; at home within an environment that may appear difficult from the shore. Tolerance considers resilience not as the absence of difficulty, but as the capacity to move through changing conditions - to know the environment, adapt to it, and continue.