Art Reviews

Many Australian artists have taken the landscape and stamped it with their own image … Arthur Boyd’s Shoalhaven pictures give us a new depth of understanding of landscape, a new set of forms and vistas to look upon … Each work is tied to a specific place that has been watched and observed hour…

The paintings of Garry Shead’s D.H. Lawrence series are the expression of an intimate nexus between himself and the British author - famous for Sons and Lovers 1913 and Women in Love 1920. Shead first encountered the letters of D.H. Lawrence on a trip to Papua New Guinea in…

Robert Dickerson had forever possessed an infatuation with Sydney, an affinity that he maintained throughout his career. Dickerson was compelled to paint his surroundings and chose to capture the close-to-hand realities of his environment. In turn, he documented Sydney’s atmosphere and a way of…

Rick Amor’s place as one of Australia’s greatest contemporary artists has its roots in an appreciation of classical art theory. The present work was heralded by art critic Robert Nelson as an example of Amor’s commitment to the traditional geometric values of the Renaissance:

Scattered amongst the Toranas, budgies, and Rorschachs is Quilty’s portraiture, which has an enduring presence in his oeuvre. He initially chose to portray himself and his friends as a way of investigating modern masculinity, and later captured the faces of Australian soldiers as an official war…

Ben Quilty has a public profile and media presence now unrivalled by any other Australian artist of his generation. The ardent engagement of his art practice with probing representations of personal, cultural and national identity, whether toxic or benign, is filtered through his own lived…

A viewer of a Dale Frank painting does not attempt to decode its content, but to feel and participate in the forces that infuse it. We can think of his works more as immobilised substances than paintings on a canvas. They hold our attention differently to the traditional gestural and geometric…

Since the late 1960s Robert Owen has exhibited a deep and multi-disciplinary interest in the underlying scientific, philosophical, and emotional qualities of light, geometric abstraction, and colour theory. He has explored their interrelationships across painting, installation, architecture,…

The master of artifice, the philosopher of the static image, Roy Lichtenstein encourages us to look again at our selected means of representation. To some admirers he will be forever cool, detached, ironic, ‘heroically untempted by meaning’¹; the stylised, deadpan paragon of Pop who…

Within the sculptural realm, Tim Storrier’s remarkable talent for capturing fine detail in two-dimensional form is further amplified. Storrier’s art stems from his ability to isolate a moment in time and perfect it with intense detail. Within his canvases, we see Storrier champion expansive and…