Sidney Nolan is universally regarded as Australia’s foremost modernist artist. Famed for his prodigious output in a career that spanned over five decades, there is no question that his most celebrated creation remains his paintings on the subject of Australia’s most notorious bushranger Ned
Smart’s was an observational aesthetic. He presented ‘freeze frame’ mental snapshots captured while scanning the urban environment. These images, unusual events and odd placements were then carefully arranged into compositions in his studio. Smart’s compositions are always arresting and myst
Emily Kame Kngwarreye began painting at the age of seventy-nine and in just eight years completed no less than four thousand works of art yet she never went to art school, never looked through art books and rarely went to galleries. Her first experience of serious painting was the maki
Judy Watson Napangardi is a Warlpiri artist who was born at Yarungkanji on Mt. Doreen Station, a cattle station northwest of Alice Springs. Warlpiri country is located in the Tanami Desert, and this is where Judy spent most of her life, embracing the traditional nomadic lifestyle of the Warl
‘One evening in 1981, Storrier stuck a couple of steel posts into some arid clayish earth and strung a rope between them. Then he went to the back of his ute, found a tin of lacquer, coated the rope and set it alight. He says he can’t remember why he decided to do it and has no idea where th
Dear, dear! How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next questio
Charles Blackman was an artist who found inspiration in nature – throughout his long and prolific career, the beauty of the natural world provided the artist with a bounty of subject matter. Gardens, flowers, forests and animals were a constant feature in Blackman’s art and the artist would
The plays and sonnets of William Shakespeare have inspired artists right from the time they were first produced more than four centuries ago. His ideas of high drama, comedy, colour and action have always provided rich pickings for painters, perhaps none more so than the pre-Raphaelite and R
Described by the curator Margo Neale as a ‘cultural terrorist of gentle irreverence’,1 Lin Onus, a self-taught artist of Yorta Yorta and Scottish descent, left school at the age of fourteen and worked as a motor mechanic and spray painter before joining his father making artifacts
Described by the curator Margo Neale as a ‘cultural terrorist of gentle irreverence’,1 Lin Onus, a self-taught artist of Yorta Yorta and Scottish descent, left school at the age of fourteen and worked as a motor mechanic and spray painter before joining his father making artifacts