Now that Cressida Campbell has so completely emerged and has achieved her place as one of Australia’s most important artists, it would be impossible to conceive of another painter so involved with the lived environment. Campbell’s paintings are well known for their b

Irma Stern is one of South Africa’s best-known artists and one of a few South African painters whose reputation extends beyond the African continent. Born in 1894 and raised in Transvaal, she studied art in Germany, first at the Weimar Academy in 1913, and later briefly at the famed Bauhaus.

In November 1970, Margaret Olley suffered the loss of her friend and fellow artist, David Strachan (1919-1970), when he was killed in a car accident at the age of 51. Having met during the 1940s as students of Jean Bellette (1908-1991), Olley and Strachan forged a lifelong friendship.^1<

To understand the paintings of Jeffrey Smart is to enter the world of signs and symbols and to acknowledge a language that is entirely Smart’s own. Jeffrey Smart left Australia in 1963 but it is the period prior to this that forms Smart’s thinking and marks his mature style. By the middle si

This is a large, sprawling country. Without a car, forget it. Distances shrink behind the wheel, but highways never end. If you live in one of the capital cities, you can make a life for yourself with public transport and running shoes, but there are limits. Town planners recognise the probl

Voyage within you, on the fabled ocean,
And you will find that Southern Continent,
Quiros' vision—his hidalgo heart
And mythical Australia, where reside
All things in their imagined counterpart.
It is your land of similes: the