Prudence Flint was and is ahead of her time. For decades, she has been painitng women in domestic settings, in bedrooms alone or reflectively with a companion, introspectively quiet and unsettlingly full of emotionless emotion. They are stunningly tender and intense. When the pandemic began, and we were all sent to our rooms and our homes, we were all forced to confront our surroundings and, mainly, ourselves, and Prudence Flint was authoring these scenes for years. 

Through March 2022 and on view at Fine Arts, Sydney, Flint presents new works in a series called Conditions for Sprouting Seeds. It seems like a perfectly apt title, both non-specific but clear that the seeds that are being planted are both internal and universal. The works, the gallery notes, have characters that are "wilfully distorted and statuesque," and yet they have action that seems to suggest a change that needs to be made. Perhaps it's personal change, maybe societal, and maybe these are the works of a woman who has observed the changing social landscape over the course of her career. But these works are quietly loud, subdued but powerful. Flint seems at the top of her game, and in a world that was forced into introspection, Flint was already working on the blueprint. —Evan Pricco