The man synonymous with the spare, wide open landscapes of Central Otago is fighting to stop them being erased. An article in the Listener, March 2023. Written by Sharon Stephenson.

There are two ways to think about Central Otago’s Cambrian Valley – a place you sweep through on the way to somewhere else, or a stunning landscape of vast skies, alpine field and crumpled mountains dusted with snow. Sir Grahame Sydney is definitely in the latter camp. One of our greatest living painters, Sydney has called the Cambrian Valley – a tiny dot on a part off the map that’s full of tiny dots – home since 1999.

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