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36. GARRY SHEAD

Garry Shead is one of Australia’s greatest narrative painters and one of our most celebrated living artists. After training at the National Art School in 1961-62 he briefly worked in the media as an editor, cartoonist, and filmmaker. His fi

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37. JOHN KELLY

Despite having spent much of his life abroad in Ireland and the UK, John Kelly is best known for painting subjects that are distinctively Australian. In this sense Kelly has much in common with two of Australia’s most important artists of the last century, Russell Drysdale (1912-1981) and Si

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38. JOHN PERCEVAL

A member of the Angry Penguins and the Antipodeans, John Perceval’s place in Australian art history is significant. His career is littered with accolades; most notably, winning the Wynne Prize in 1960 and being made an Officer of the Order

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39. JOHN GLOVER

John Glover migrated to Australia from England as a free colonist in 1831 at the age of 64. He was a self-taught artist who is viewed as one of Australia’s finest colonial painters and the country’s first great landscape painter. Before leaving England for Australia, he a

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ROBERT KLIPPEL

Robert Klippel is recognised as Australia’s most significant sculptor. It is thus no surprise that in advance of the National Gallery of Australia opening in Canberra in 1982, Klippel was commissioned by the founding director, James Mollison, to produce a public sculpture funded by the Feder

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RICK AMOR

As an artist, Rick Amor is determined, meticulous and unpretentious in his public persona. After a measured start including cartooning and comic book illustration, he has risen to the very pinnacle of the Australian art world, esteemed by critics and collectors alike.

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WILLIAM ROBINSON

…the painting simultaneously does so many different things, exquisitely orchestrated to the finest pitch, that you can feel exhilarated, drunk, as you stand before it.  You do feel intoxicated, or at least pleasurably seasick, because you are immediately plun

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NORMAN LINDSAY

Shown wearing little more than a headdress and silk slippers, Iris is a striking embodiment of sensuality and mystique. As with many of Norman Lindsay’s nudes, the sitter’s lack of attire does not imply her vulnerability - rather, Iris appears emboldened by the viewer’s gaze, a

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ROBERT DICKERSON

Born and raised in Depression-era Sydney, Robert Dickerson was no stranger to adversity; a trait evident in the melancholy, gaunt faces of the characters in his paintings. From a young age he drew compulsively, usually warships and aircraft, but his attention was drawn elsewhere as he grew o

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GARRY SHEAD

Dante's Vision

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri is universally accepted to be one of the greatest works of Western literature. Written as an epic poem in 14th-century Italy, it is an imaginative vision of the afterlife and traces the journey o

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