The Cavern is the debut artist book by Melbourne-based painter Travis MacDonald. Drawing on key works from the preceding three years, the book forwards MacDonald's quietly idiosyncratic take on the more traditional genres of figuration and landscape painting, revealing a sensitivity and wit that extends to both his surroundings and to art history. At once dreamlike in its atmosphere and palette, and dry in its humour, The Cavern speaks not so much to a wider historical narrative, but to fragments of time within it. From his Cavern, MacDonald offers a contemplative and ever-so-slightly incongruous vantage on the world as we thought we knew it.