Artist Talk at OLSEN: Emma Itzstein, ‘Excursions Outside the Orangery’

Join artist WA based Emma Itzstein for a walk through of her solo exhibition Excursions Outside the Orangery ahead of the exhibition opening at OLSEN on Saturday 29 August. The new series of paintings are cultivated through intuition and care, a tending of the artists inner world from which seeds of renewal are germinated. Inspired by a trip to Kew Gardens, Itzstein has a unique capacity to depict floral scenes as an expression of motherhood; of yield and yearning. Excursions Outside the Orangery reminds us that art can carry us to faraway places while returning us to an inner memory of self. Stepping out from orangery to the meadow, the exhibition offers a gentle immersion into the changing seasons of maternal wandering, where growth and containment go hand in hand. – Ellen Keillar 2026

Location: Olsen Gallery, 63 Jersey Road, Woollahra, NSW, 2025, Australia