• Man Sunbaking on the pontoon at Redleaf, Australian Riviera, an exhibition of landscape photography of the costal areas of the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, Australia by photographer Kent Johnson.
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    Australian Riviera

    Meditations on the beauty of the coastline of Eastern Sydney.

    Tropicana Caffe, 277 Victoria Street Darlinghurst. From the Feb 14 to March 28, 2026

    1 Surfer at the jump point, Bronte Pool
    2 Sunbaking on the Vee Deck, Redleaf
    3 Anastasia Floating, Redleaf
    4 Emerald Green Water, Nielsen Park
    5 Lap swimmers at Bondi Icebergs

    Sydney, Australia

    Open Edition
    A4 $60 - A3 $125
    A2 $150 - A1 $220 - A0 $350
    Pigment ink on Bond Paper

    Canson Infinity prints by request - POA
    To order prints contact Kent on
    61 (0) 433 796 863 kent@artcommunication.com.au

  • Surfer at the jump point, Bronte Ocean Pool. Australian Riviera, an exhibition of landscape photography of the costal areas of the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, Australia by photographer Kent Johnson.
  • Sunbaking on the Vee Deck, Redleaf Harbour Pool. Australian Riviera, an exhibition of landscape photography of the costal areas of the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, Australia by photographer Kent Johnson.
  • Anastasia Floating, Redleaf. Australian Riviera, an exhibition of landscape photography of the costal areas of the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, Australia by photographer Kent Johnson.
  • Emerald Green Water, Shark Beach, Nielsen Park . Australian Riviera, an exhibition of landscape photography of the costal areas of the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, Australia by photographer Kent Johnson.
  • Lap swimmers at Bondi IcebergsAustralian Riviera, an exhibition of landscape photography of the costal areas of the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, Australia by photographer Kent Johnson.
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    Australian Riviera : Notes

    After a trip to Italy in 2018, I began documenting many of Sydney's harbour and ocean pools using 360-degree photography – in part inspired by a Venetians enthusiasm (in Venice) for a 360-shot of mine of the Andrew 'Boy' Charlton pool, nestled on the edge of Woolloomooloo bay. “Is that a pool?' they excitedly exclaimed “I want to swim there when I visit Australia”.

    I had used these Australian landscapes as locations for pictures - but now inspired by the eyes and enthusiasm of an Italian, I began to see the these locations as the subject, the form, the whole of the image.

  • Australian Riviera, an exhibition of landscape photography of the costal areas of the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, Australia by photographer Kent Johnson.
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    Australian Riviera : Notes, Continued

    I started wondering why social media was flooded with the Amalfi Coast (from fellow Australians) and yet so little is shown of our country, when they are at home. I thought about how I had been taught that early European artists in Australia had trouble painting the landscape as they had no experience, no tradition that allowed them to paint the landscape as it really was. So we have those strange hybrid paintings where it's obviously a painting of Australia, but painted in the style of a northern European landscape. It wasn't until The Heidelberg School (1880s–1890s) that 'Europeans' started painting the lived landscape and not perhaps until Albert Namatjira (1902–1959) that the colour of Australia was brought fully to life.

    My Australian Riviera series is an attempt to showcase the beauty of Sydney's shoreline with a returning travellers eyes, to discard my my own pictorial biases and baggage and to see what it is really here.

    To order prints please contact Kent on
    61 (0)433 796 863 or kent@artcommunication.com.au

  • Australian Riviera, an exhibition of landscape photography of the costal areas of the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, Australia by photographer Kent Johnson.
  • Poster for Australian Riviera, an exhibition of landscape photography of the costal areas of the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, Australia by photographer Kent Johnson.
  • Poster for Australian Riviera, an exhibition of landscape photography of the costal areas of the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, Australia by photographer Kent Johnson.
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