A painter of sporadic genius, John Perceval’s life swung from the occasional low point, mainly characterised by inactivity, to the greatest heights. His work invites comparison with that of his friend and brother-in-law Arthur Boyd. Both artists started their careers in the late 1930s and after...
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By Tessa Dorman MA Art History and Theory
24 Oct 2018
Garry Shead is one of Australia’s most renowned artists for his poetic depictions of Australian culture and the essence of human love. Arguably his most powerful series, Dance Sequence, is one of the artist’s most adored series and includes the present work, Dancers (Sloping) 2000. The...
By Anonymous
24 Oct 2018
Regular travellers on the Hume Highway, heading north from Melbourne towards Sydney will be familiar with the town of Avenel, about one and a half hours into the trip. The landscape there is heavily treed and yet to the right, you are aware of Strathbogie Ranges as they rise steeply, not that...
By Anonymous
24 Oct 2018
Eugene von Guérard, born in 1811, began his life in courtly Vienna1 where his father Bernhard, a painter of miniatures, enjoyed the patronage of the Royal family. With changes in taste over time, however, von Guérard senior was obliged to seek patronage elsewhere, and so in 1830...
By Anonymous
24 Oct 2018
Ti –Tree and She Oaks belongs to a key group of landscape paintings produced by John Perceval during a highly productive period working in and around Melbourne in the late 1950s.
Perceval’s career as a painter began during a period convalescing from polio in the 1930s, and...
By Catherine Baxendale B Phil Hons
24 Oct 2018
Although Frederick McCubbin is best known for his affiliation with the Heidelberg school, his finest works arguably resulted from a subsequent period of relative isolation. During the final decade of McCubbin’s life, from 1907 to 1917, the artist mainly worked alone and in the open air,...
By Marguerite Brown MA - Art Curatorship
24 Oct 2018
Arthur Boyd had been living in London for seven years when he painted the present work, and his position as a leading Australian artist on the international stage was well established. Following the success of his seminal Brides series in 1958/59, he left for London and continued the...
By Caroline Jones MA (Art Admin.)
24 Oct 2018
Although Garry Shead could be broadly described as a republican and his Royal Suite paintings promptly entered the Australian republican debate of the late 1990s, this was not the primary intention of the series. It had been a long time in the making, in fact about forty years...
By Ken Wach
24 Oct 2018
Charles Blackman’s School Children at Play, created when he was just twenty-five years old, holds an impressive threefold significance.
Firstly, the rare and early painting was created in 1953 exactly midpoint in the three-year pivotal time slot during which he developed his...
By Ken Wach
24 Oct 2018
Maguire came from a family of teachers and always assumed that he too would join that profession. This was shattered when Maguire was very badly injured in a serious train crash that left him unable to study or work for a full three years. After this period, he enrolled at The University of...
