Following recent solo shows at The Royal  Botanic Gardens, Kew, London, MUAC Mexico City, Mexico and the  Bonnefanten Museum Maastricht, The Netherlands, Jan Hendrix’s exhibition  Passing Through will launch Shapero Modern’s exciting new gallery space  on Maddox Street in the heart of London’s Mayfair.   

Hendrix explores the fragility of the natural world and the transformation of landscape through man’s intervention.

This  exhibition focusses on two particular contrasting landscapes: the land  around the Bundanon Trust, New South Wales where Hendrix has had several  residencies, learning about the landscape along the Shoalhaven River  and the work of the trust with the Dharawal people to preserve this  ‘first landscape’. The other is further north, nowadays a suburb of  Sydney, called chronologically, Stingray Bay, Botany Bay and now Kamay.  The bay was the first landing point of Captain Cook’s famous 1770 Endeavour expedition and was  the place of the first collection of many plant species by the botanists  on board, Sir Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander.