It is worth recalling that, in the popular mind, the media and in the public Press, Pablo Picasso dominated the first half of the twentieth century just as assuredly as Andy Warhol dominated the second.

With this in mind Warhol’s Head After Picasso of 1985 presents a uniqu

It goes without saying that John Olsen, at the age of ninety, is one of Australia’s most recognised and recognisable living artists, loved by the public and the art industry alike. Still exhibiting regularly, he attends public appearances, openings and speeches that would leave someone half

Arthur Streeton (1867–1943) is one of Australia’s most significant and recognisable artists, celebrated for his paintings that seemed to capture the very essence of the Australian landscape. As a founder of the Heidelberg school, also known as Australian Impressionism, Streeton’s late ninete

Arthur Boyd’s paintings of the Shoalhaven River express the artist’s feeling for the great river and its surrounds – the scrubby banks and hills, tidal flats and the powerful ebb and flow of the water. After returning with his family from twenty-one years in England, Boyd settled just outsid

Charles Blackman has been one of Australia’s most celebrated artists for over seventy years, establishing his reputation with his iconic Schoolgirls series (1952-1955) and then Alice in Wonderland series (1956-1957). In August 1959, he participated in Bernard Smith’s (1916-2011) landmark exh

In 1999, when Garry Shead began working on the series ‘The Artist and the Muse’, he joined a tradition of established Australian artists who, throughout their oeuvres, have paid homage to the great painters of history. Arthur Boyd’s (1920-1999) Figure by a Creek 1972, is a salute to

John Olsen is most well-known to collectors and admirers of his work as a landscape painter, depicting distinctive landforms in various stages of flux. Inherent in these depictions of the natural world is the artist’s affinity with the life forms which inhabit the landscape, bringing an ener

Irish born artist, John Doherty, is regarded internationally as one of the foremost realist artists. Early praise of his draftsmanship was closely followed by commercial success from the early age of twenty eight, from which time until now he has held a solo exhibition practically every year

In 1976, Storrier travelled with fellow artist John Olsen and his dealer Stuart Purves, the Director of Australian Galleries, to Lake Eyre. It was a key moment and a revelation:

‘I was more interested in the sense of limitless space, the flatness, the utter stillness and the mergin

Rick Amor turned seventy in March of this year, a milestone marking fifty years as a professional artist. After a measured start where he took on many ‘lower order’ tasks in the artistic life, including cartooning and comic book illustration, he has risen to the very pinnacle of Australian a