56. CHARLES BLACKMAN
The grand scale of Blackman’s paintings was precipitated by his studies of tapestries and work on tapestry cartoons. After being granted the Moya Dyring studio at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris in 1970 he travell
62. GRACE COSSINGTON-SMITH
Grace Cossington-Smith’s portraits are relatively few, with landscapes and still-lifes dominating her oeuvre. The 1930s saw the artist depict people close to her in more traditional portrait formats, including Figure Through Flowers c1932 and
63. RUPERT BUNNY
Portrait of the Artist’s Wife c1910 depicts Jeanne Morel, daughter of a French army colonel and an artist’s model, whom Rupert Bunny married in 1902. The pair met as art students in Paris in the 1890s, and Jeanne started appearing in Bunny’s pai
53. CRESSIDA CAMPBELL
To visit the home and studio of Cressida Campbell is a great privilege. The sound of water trickles in the background as the cool air of the studio mixes with the humid February heat. The space feels like organised chaos. Hundreds of contorting watercolour tubes sit a
54. BEN QUILTY
Sleepless (Kenny) 2018 combines many of Ben Quilty’s characteristic themes and visual motifs. Portraiture is at the heart of his practice and having won the Archibald Prize in 2011 for his portrait of Margaret Olley (1923-2011), Quilty went on to produ
55. ARTHUR BOYD
Arthur Boyd’s Bathers on Rocks and Water Tower combines a highly imaginative response to the traditional bather or ‘figure in the landscape’ theme with a distinctly Australian setting. It alludes to classical mythology and contains biting social commentary on o
1. BRETT WHITELEY
Now, I am not interested in ornithology … not even particularly in birds. But what does interest me is MOOD, a force I find as difficult to understand as the existentialism in a gnat. The sudden peculiar plummet of an atmosphere in a room. Or weather? Or the thing that keeps friendship consi
5. RAY CROOKE
Ray Crooke is celebrated for his quiet but intensely poignant landscapes of people and their environment. The images of Thursday Island Crooke created in the late 1950s remain amongst the most evocative images in his oeuvre. These compositions have a keen sense of locality, and describe with
10. JOHN PERCEVAL
John Perceval’s Mordialloc Creek 1946 tells the story of a close friendship and an evolving artistic style. Perceval was only twenty-three years of age when he painted the work which brims with the talent and confidence of youth. The focus on a small portion of nature; implied human
11. ARTHUR BOYD
Arthur Boyd is well known for his love of the Australian bush and his long association with two historic pastoral and bush properties along the Shoalhaven River, near Nowra in New South Wales. Less well known is that when Arthur and Yvonne initially purchased Riversdale, and later Bundanon,