Artists statement

For more than a quarter of a century, Tony Clark has been working on one of Australian art's most enduring, significant yet elusive projects, Myriorama. Yet he refuses to discuss it in resolved or unambiguous terms. ''I've never known where this was going to lead,'' he says almost guiltily of the theoretically endless project, sections of which are now part of nearly every large public collection in Australia.

The series is modular and interchangeable - the point at which the horizon concludes on both sides of each panel is consistent, making every panel interchangeable. It concerns same rambling, meandering, romantic landscape, ostensibly Australian, chiefly painted on compact canvas boards, and, since 2002, rendered in a restricted palette of black, light pink, light blue and raw sienna. Self-imposed constraints and tenets are not only Myriorama's defining cues but its great strength.