Queensland-born Hugh Sawrey painted scenes from his own life experiences; the people he met and the places he visited. During his early years, he worked as a drover and shearer throughout Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Australia. Memories from this period of his life became t
The celebrated Japanese ukiyo-e printmaker, Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), described himself as an ‘old man mad about drawing.’1 Hokusai’s working life spanned seven decades. At the age of seventy, the artist embarked upon his magnum opus, the Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji,
Emily Kame Kngwarreye lived her entire life in one of the world’s most remote regions, an area called Utopia on the edge of the Simpson Desert, a good 230 kilometres from the already-remote Alice Springs. It was here that Kngwarreye began to paint on canvas for the first time at almost eight
Rover Thomas was born in 1926 however did not begin painting until 1981. He was prompted by a senior kinsman, Paddy Jaminj (c1912-1996), who had had paintings commissioned by Mary Macha, a Perth-based field officer working for Aboriginal Arts and Crafts Pty Ltd, an organisation that was supp
Rover Thomas was born in 1926 however did not begin painting until 1981. He was prompted by a senior kinsman, Paddy Jaminj (c1912-1996), who had had paintings commissioned by Mary Macha, a Perth-based field officer working for Aboriginal Arts and Crafts Pty Ltd, an organisation that was supp
In May 2018, Menzies was delighted to host the exhibition and auction of the M Collection in our Melbourne gallery. M Collection is a Melbourne-based art collective that formed in 2008 with the aim to gather an extraordinary collection of contemporary Australian art over a ten year period. T
Cameron Menzies talks about the highlights from Menzies' twenty years in the auction market.
This lithograph by the British-born Augustus Earle is among the most significant images produced during the early colonial years of Sydney. Earle lived in Sydney from 1825 to 1828, punctuated by a seven-month side journey to New Zealand in 1828. An inveterate traveller, he is noted for being
During the three years Augustus Earle spent in Sydney, he produced a series of painted portraits of local identities and is noted for having produced the first ever lithographs in the colony. Based on sketches of the colony and its citizens, Earle produced these prints in 1826 on a lithograp
Throughout the nineteenth century Rupert Bunny’s major paintings delighted in depictions of figures by the seashore. His 1890 Tritons (Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney) was awarded a mention honorable at the Paris Salon (an Australian first), and in 1892 Alfred Felton’s first gift to M