Saint Cloche is pleased to present Where We Once Were, a new solo exhibition by award-winning Wiradjuri artist Hannah Lange, exploring transformation, impermanence and the enduring relationship between personal identity and Country.

Grounded in the understanding that Country exists in a continual state of change, Lange considers the shifting conditions of the natural world as a reflection of human experience. Rivers alter their course, sandstone yields to time, vegetation regenerates and tidal movements reshape familiar terrain. Within these processes, change becomes a form of continuity rather than an absolute ending.

Through her distinctive visual language of intricate, rhythmic mark-making, Lange translates these observations into layered compositions that move between abstraction and the physical textures of Country. Repeated gestures, organic formations and subtle shifts in colour evoke the accumulated traces of time, revealing the relationship between what is altered and what endures.

While deeply informed by her Wiradjuri heritage and ancestral knowledge, Where We Once Werealso marks a personal turning point in Lange’s practice. The exhibition reflects on the experience of relinquishing familiar structures, embracing uncertainty and recognising transformation as an essential condition of growth.

Rather than seeking a return to the past, Where We Once Were proposes a more expansive understanding of identity, one shaped through movement, adaptation and the continuous exchange between memory, experience and Country.

The exhibition opens on Thursday 19th November with a special reception and live Yiḏaki performance by Nathan Leslie as part of Paddo Night Out 2026.

“Through a period of profound change, I have found myself considering what it means to let go of what once was, to make space for what is yet to come, and to recognise that something can change without being lost entirely.”