Garry Shead has established a considerable reputation as one of Australia’s most prominent figurative artists.  His works invariably contain a narrative bent, a whimsical tone, and a highly stylised figurative manner that evokes both the poetic and lyrical. His scenes transpire in a uni

As he marks his three score years and ten, Tim Storrier can look back at a lifetime of achievement to which many aspire but few achieve in the arts. He made a spectacular entry into the profession as the youngest ever winner of the Sulman Prize and has built on that over fifty years, produci

Papunya has now achieved mythic status in the country’s cultural psyche for its place in the history of the Western Desert Art Movement, eclipsing its earlier symbolic place in the annals of white exploration of the interior; that of being the nearest town to the Australian ‘contine

Yorta Yorta artist Lin Onus has been described as ‘a cultural provocateur who believed that there was no distinction between the political and the beautiful.’¹

Philosophical thinking offers a useful key to unlock this statement. Australian academic Robin Ferrell

There is always a hidden visual power in Jeffrey Smart’s paintings. His paintings are never simple scenes that are simply rendered – always there is an organising principle. Behind the visible scene there is the invisible mind that orders. Smart’s paintings are never the record of a scene bu

Brett Whiteley’s tour de force painting The Paddock - Late Afternoon of 1979 shows the then forty-year old Sydney artist at his most colouristically luminous – only rarely did he ever attain, even in part, the suffused effects of this optically striking painting.

Born in Holland in 1877, Cornelius Theodorus Maria (Kees) van Dongen, began his career as a student at the Rotterdam Academy at the age of fifteen. As a young man he was also engaged in radical politics and earned some extra money as a political cartoonist and illustrator. In fact until 1908

Some artists paint what they see; others what they feel. For the Melbourne-based artist John Brack it was different. For Brack, art was more in the manner of an intellectual act.

Perhaps, this was why he was so keenly admired for the quality of his art and so respected for the deep

Most people in Australia know Lloyd Rees’s paintings. Most in Sydney value them highly. This justifiably high regard has a long history. In fairness, it must be admitted that at times such great regard has waxed and waned and that, in the minds of some, there were periods when Rees’s reputat

In Garry Shead’s oeuvre, the 1990s was a golden period for his art.  It was a time when he attained national recognition with his D.H Lawrence series and then The Royal Suite.  In 1993 he was awarded the Archibald Prize for his amazingly expressionistic portrait o