The idea of ‘Fleeting Glimpses’ first came to her in 2003, travelling in New Zealand. 

She was struck by the quickly passing views of landscapes through the windows of buses and trains.

Many of the photographs displayed date from this period.

She was able to capture the landscape again during residencies at Dunedin in 2016 and 2017.

The exhibition plays host to a mix of photography and paintings, grouped an arranged together. 

“It’s quite eclectic in a way,” Moore said. “There are paintings that are more traditionally done… then there are other ones that are a mix of realistic stuff.”

Works are grouped thematically, within the rooms of the exhibition. 

The first features works sourced from photographs taken while travelling across NSW to Adelaide. 

The images capture the sense of motion imparted by the movement of the train.

Paintings show the effect of the vegetation streaking past a train or bus at speed, playing into the idea of ‘Fleeting Glimpses’.

New Zealand features in the second room of the show, playing again into the idea of fleeting glimpses.

After visiting the Franz Josef Glacier in 2003, Moore was shocked when returning in 2016 to discover the glacier had receded so much in 13 years it was no longer possible to walk up it.

In this sense the idea of fleeting glimpses also references the fragile state of the world’s environments, as a result of human activity. 

Environmental themes are common in Moore’s work.

The exhibition is Moore’s third at Altenburg. The first took place in 1988, two years after she had moved to Charleys Forest.

Since then, she has enjoyed the beautiful surrounds of the area.

Her love for nature has also driven her longtime involvement with the Greens. 

Between 2004 and 2012 this meant serving on Palerang council.

She found the land at Charleys Forest by chance.

“I looked in the paper, I found the land, and I got it immediately, and never looked anywhere else,” Moore said.

“I just live in the bush, and I really just love being in nature, and I love the peace and I love the tranquility.”

The backdrop of the Budawangs, inspired her to begin painting again.

An artist all her life, Moore had previously specialised in printmaking.

As a child she would accompany her father, an excellent amateur painter, to classes around the Sydney Harbour.

She later studied at Canberra School of Art, majoring in printmaking. She then completed a Masters of Visuals Arts at Monash University.

Later, living in London without the capacity to make prints, she began to paint.