"Splash" by Rod Pattenden

Name: "Splash" by Rod Pattenden
Start: 2026-04-09T23:00:00+10:00
End: 2026-04-10T04:00:00+10:00
Location: The Owens Collective

Schedule

Thu, 09 Apr, 2026 at 11:00 pm to Fri, 10 Apr, 2026 at 04:00 am

UTC+10:00

Location

The Owens Collective | Newcastle, NS

We’re excited to present Splash!, a new solo exhibition by Rod Pattenden at Owens Collective.
📅 Friday 10 – Sunday 19 April 2026
📍 Owens Collective, Islington NSW
🎉 Opening Night: Friday 10 April 6pm to 9pm
🥂 Artist catering on the night
Splash! is a striking series of oil paintings that explores the delicious refreshment — and dangerous depths — of being in water. Figures are suspended in fluid space, reaching for air or plunging into the unknown. Water becomes both a life-giving force and a site of risk, framing human experience through moments of buoyancy, grace, pressure and containment.
Richly coloured and deeply evocative, this exhibition presents recent works that invite viewers to reflect on vulnerability, renewal and the shifting states of being human.