Magnetic documents Dettmer’s months spent sketching and painting on Magnetic Island off the coast of Queensland, nestled in a beach hut on a bush block. A sequence of Utopian landscapes wrought with palm fringed beaches and granite boulders. Quintessential holiday destinations void of tourists that offer a calming mystery, and draw us deeper in search of solitude.Magnetic maps out locations to find refuge, abstracted into something nostalgic yet alien. Nice places we would like to visit with no delusion of departure or arrival.
