Transience Atlas

Rob Howe

30 May - 9 August 2026

Transience Atlas maps impermanence through a year-long study of seasonal change across New South Wales. In a series of weekly paintings, Rob Howe translates the shifting light and rhythm of each season into landscape, still life and figure painting, revealing how cycles of change can offer calm amid uncertainty.

Both personal and universal, Howe’s observations remind us that nothing lasts forever — that beauty resides in the fleeting and the overlooked. Through this sustained practice, the artist transforms transience into a meditation on time, place and renewal.

Commissioned and presented by Wollongong Art Gallery.

Image: Rob Howe, Payne Road (detail), 2021, oil on board, 40.5 x 52 cm. Private collection. Photograph: Jennifer Leahy