Lithic Art Gallery

LITHIC GALLERY is a contemporary art gallery founded by Shay Pappas, Samantha Gardiner & Itta Somaia, from the Macedon Ranges

  • Samantha Gardiner-Artist
    Shay Pappas-Artist
    Itta Somaia-Artist

    We are three artists shaped by a shared landscape, the Macedon Ranges, country Victoria, Australia. Lithic Gallery was founded as a pop-up gallery for exhibitions and art fairs.

    Sam collects stones, holding them like memory, reminders of place, weight, and quiet presence.

    Itta studied stone as science and finds endless inspiration from the landscape and contours of the land.

    Shay loves to paint boulders, the great guardian of our region, Hanging Rock and capturing the emotional gravity of the land.

    Together, we form LITHIC.

    We are drawn to what endures.
    To the stories held in stone.
    To the way earth remembers what we forget.

    Our work is contemporary and diverse but it meets in this truth:
    The ground beneath us shapes us.

    In our studios across the Macedon Ranges, we create from the slow time of geology and the quick time of the human heart. Textures, pigments, marks, and forms echo the ridges, escarpments, sediments, and spirits of this ancient volcanic country.

    We invite you to stand here with us, to feel the weight of the land, the tenderness of touch, and the quiet pull of home.

    LITHIC
    Born of stone.
    Made by hand.
    Rooted in place.