Name: LAST WEEK! Exhibition: 'Soft Return' by Shaz Rhodes and India Swinton
Start: 2026-03-18T00:00:00+11:00
End: 2026-03-21T06:00:00+11:00
Location: 28 Lawson St, Byron Bay, NSW, Australia, New South Wales 2481

LAST WEEK! Exhibition: 'Soft Return' by Shaz Rhodes and India Swinton

This is the last week to see our current exhibition 'Soft Return' which brings together the work of two emerging local painters and recent art school graduates, Shaz Rhodes (Byron School of Art) and India Swinton (National Art School).
Although their styles are very different, both artists explore the inner world – where sensation, memory, and emotion sit just beneath the surface.
Swinton works with soft, sculptural canvases and gentle colour fields to explore quiet states of feeling and moments of transcendence. Whereas Rhodes presents portraits that function like masks, floating in a psychological, dreamlike space revealing traces of past experiences and deeper, archetypal feelings.
Together, the works in 'Soft Return' offer a gentle immersion into the complexity of human experience inviting viewers to move between tenderness and intensity, between what can be seen and what is quietly held within.
Shaz Rhodes is a South African born multidisciplinary artist working across oil painting and sculptural installation, exploring the inner landscapes of the unconscious through mythology, psychology, poetry, and personal history.
India Swinton is a British–Australian artist based on Bundjalung Country in the Northern Rivers, NSW. Her early immersion into spirituality continues to shape her practice, which seeks to explore transcendence through painting.
Exhibition continues until 21 March, open Wed to Sat 10am – 4pm.
View available works www.lonegoatgallery.com
Installation view of small works by India Swinton, 2026.