"Manunda Station, 1980"
Oil on Board
90x120cm
Signed Lower Right
Prov: Corporate Collection Adelaide
$3,000-5,000
The South Australian landscape forms the central focus of David Dridan’s practice, with particular emphasis on the state’s remote northern regions. The present works, depicting Innamincka and Manumuda Station, relate directly to this ongoing engagement, drawing on locations that sit within the broader Cooper Basin and Channel Country—areas defined by pastoral activity, floodplain systems and a long history of settlement at the edge of viable agriculture.
Dridan has exhibited consistently in South Australia and is recognised for his disciplined approach to landscape painting, working within a tonal framework that emphasises structure, light and spatial clarity. His work aligns with a lineage of Australian painters concerned with accurate observation and a measured response to environment, rather than overt interpretation.
Executed at a mature point in the artist’s career, these works represent significant examples of his sustained engagement with the inland landscape. Their scale and resolved handling position them as major works within this period, consolidating the key concerns of his practice while documenting specific and recognisable locations within South Australia’s pastoral north.
