An artist and a photographer walk into a blizzard and come out with the exhibition Familiarity & Strangeness What do you get when you mix printmaking, photography and places? Familiarity & Strangeness is an exhibition of prints, photographs, paintings and objects. Rowena and Rob Evans share impressions of diverse places - from the icebergs of Greenland and poetry of Iceland’s coast to Cooma bushland and the headlands of Merimbula. Come and see prints depicting the sounds and emotions of strange places and photos from beyond the Arctic Circle. Experience the strangeness of 5-metre-tall water birds and pictures of sounds from distant and familiar places: enjoy photographs of lands made of icebergs and the sky painted by the Aurora Borealis. Add a little silliness with a few creatures from these exotic places (and stranger ones). Rowena and Rob Evans have lived in Cooma since 1985. Rowena is an artist interested in investigating seen and unseen aspects of significant places. She showed two exhibitions of prints and drawings exploring this theme in Canberra in 2025. Rob Evans has been engaging with photography since childhood and combines it with his interests in walking, ski touring and travelling to share the beauty of places he visits. Familiarity & Strangeness will be more than a visit to the gallery; it will be a shared experience of exciting and significant places, strange creatures and colourful sounds through Rowena and Rob’s artworks. See it at the Raglan Gallery, Cooma between the 5th August and the 20th September 2026, opening 3pm on Saturday 8th August at the Raglan Gallery, Cooma *ALSO* in an exciting collaboration experimental/ improvisational Canberra jazz trio Library of Alexandria will play a couple of Rowena’s artworks as graphic scores at Smith’s Alternative’s Dual Trio Night from 7pm 23rd July 2026 •Familiarity & Strangeness Raglan Gallery & Cultural Centre, 9-11 Lambie Street Cooma 5th August - 20th September 2026 •Official opening 3pm Saturday 8th August at the Raglan Gallery in conjunction with Frequency of Floating: photos by Wendy McDougall •Dual Trio Night with Library of Alexandria from 7pm Thursday 23rd July 2026 at Smith’s Alternative 76 Alinga St Canberra