Art Reviews

George Baldessin’s surrealist sculpture and printmaking quickly saw him rise to prominence within the Melbourne art scene in the 1970s, until his untimely death in a car accident at just 39 years of age.

After establishing himself as a leading artist in Australia with the Bride series, Arthur Boyd travelled to London with his family in 1959, where they remained until 1971. Boyd extended his success from Australia to Europe by exhibiting at numerous London galleries throughout the 1960s…

From his first solo exhibition at Sydney’s Mori Gallery in 1984, the year of his postgraduate art studies in Sydney, Tim Maguire had looked beyond Australia to foreign fields as the ground for his maturation as an artist. His early international experience began that same year with a travel…

Born into a working-class family in the UK, John Kelly was raised and educated in Australia, and now resides in County Cork, Ireland. As a university student, he came across a small and overlooked moment in Australian art history, in which the painter William Dobell was enlisted as a camoufleur…

To date, Queen Elizabeth II has been the only reigning monarch to have visited Australia’s shores. It was a momentous occasion that stopped the nation and created inconceivable fanfare that lasted the entirety of her fifty-eight-day trip. As a young boy, Garry Shead was one of the hundreds of…

The ‘figure in landscape’ occupies a long and honourable position in the iconography of Australian art, with Arthur Boyd one of its most acclaimed exponents. Historian Bernard Smith even coined the term ‘iconomorphic’ to describe paintings by Boyd (and fellow artist Sidney Nolan) in which image…

Figures with a Dog represents a significant and highly accomplished painting from Arthur Boyd’s early years in England. Following his relocation from Australia in November 1959, a period of significant consolidation and change occurred in Boyd’s art. He had left behind the familiarity…

Garry Shead is regarded as one of Australia’s finest narrative painters and printmakers. Along with Sidney Nolan and Arthur Boyd, Shead has illuminated the Australian story and its myths to a wide and appreciative audience. His imagery has an ability to transcend the personal and reach into that…

Garry Shead is regarded as one of Australia’s finest narrative painters and printmakers. Along with Sidney Nolan and Arthur Boyd, Shead has illuminated the Australian story and its myths to a wide and appreciative audience. His imagery has an ability to transcend the personal and reach into that…

Fred Williams knows Australia. He is not an artist who would disdain a gum tree. He is not a foreigner seeking to impose a natural paradise on some strange exotic land.

He is, however, a romantic artist and his approach to landscape is narrative. His images may at first seem abstract, but…