Local photographer brings landscape series to Lon this weekend

These beautiful works will mirror the coastal surrounds.

Geelong-based photographer Jane Fitzgerald invites viewers to step into a world that lies just beyond the visible with Unseen, her latest series of infrared images that reimagine the familiar coastline of Point Lonsdale.

The exhibition opens this weekend on Sunday 24 May at Lon Retreat and Spa in Point Lonsdale, with a celebration from 12 – 2pm with refreshments available.

Jane Fitzgerald presents Unseen

What: Unseen — Opening May 24, 2026, 12-2pm, refreshments available
Where: Lon Retreat and Spa, Point Lonsdale, Victoria

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Using an all-spectrum camera, Fitzgerald transforms ordinary scenes—trees, fences, pathways, and open stretches of land—into compositions that feel quietly abstract, almost otherworldly. Shadows deepen, light shifts, and textures emerge that often go unnoticed, revealing the subtle architecture of the coast. In these images, the everyday is rendered extraordinary, and the coastline, so familiar to many, becomes a place of reflection and quiet discovery.

Rather than documenting the coast as it appears to the naked eye, Fitzgerald’s use of infrared photography teeters between reality and imagination, creating a tension that invites viewers to slow down, to linger on what might otherwise be overlooked. Each frame celebrates the understated rhythms of the landscape—the gentle curve of a path, the way light falls across a stretch of sand, the delicate structure of a tree against the sky. These details, often invisible in daily life, are elevated to the centre of her compositions, allowing the coast to reveal a hidden narrative of shape, texture, and light.

Fitzgerald is a Geelong-based, internationally award-winning photographer whose practice spans art, travel, weddings, restaurants, and commercial work. She is known for a natural, documentary approach that balances intimacy with expansiveness, capturing moments that feel at once personal and universal. Her work has been exhibited locally and internationally, and featured in photography publications across Australia and overseas. Recent exhibitions and accolades include Streets Beats at Wolfhound Gallery in 2023, The Laneway Gallery in Geelong the same year, winning the Metro Tunnel Art Prize in 2023, and the Geelong Portrait Prize in 2024. In Unseen, Fitzgerald continues her exploration of place, perception, and the subtle poetry of the everyday, inviting viewers to see the coastline anew, through her lens and beyond the surface of the visible world.

Find out more about Jane Fitzgerald here.