The Shower, painted in 1984, is a relatively late example of Brett Whiteley’s much-loved theme of...
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Art Reviews
By Emeritus Professor Sasha Grishin AM FAHA
29 Jan 2020
John Brack is one of Australia’s most acclaimed and outstanding artists of the second half of the twentieth century. His Reclining Nude 1980, is the standout painting in the series of five major nude oil paintings that the artist...
By Rodney James BA (Hons.), MA
29 Jan 2020
Conversation Piece 1998 is an exemplary work by Jeffrey Smart that highlights the importance of pictorial innovation and its interaction with time-honoured visual traditions. Smart wanted his paintings and drawings to match the great artists of the past but look and feel contemporary....
By Ken Wach
28 Jan 2020
Whiteley created his rare and almost forgotten masterwork Gauguin at the infamous Chelsea Hotel in New York in 1968. It is one of Whiteley’s most...
By Rodney James, B.A. (Hons.), M.A
28 Jan 2020
A Choir for Christabel 1972, is a little-known family portrait that depicts...
By Gavin Fry
28 Jan 2020
For more than four decades Tony Bevan has been creating works that combine a disarming simplicity with a great intensity, deeply personal explorations of the artistic psyche. Through a narrow range of subjects he delves over and over into the...
By Timothy Abdallah BA
28 Jan 2020
A noted English painter, Tony Bevan has enjoyed some success with his work in Australia, where he has exhibited with Liverpool Street Gallery in Sydney and Niagara Galleries in Melbourne. Since the 1960s he has exhibited extensively in Europe and the United States, as well as...
By Dr Gary Hickey Grad Dip SUT Grad Dip SUT Fellowship RMIT
28 Jan 2020
Judy Watson was born at Yarungkanji, Mount Doreen Station, a cattle station north-west of Alice Springs. This was at a time when the Warlpiri, indigenous peoples of the Tanami Desert, were following a traditional nomadic life travelling on foot throughout their country, hunting...
By Dr Gary Hickey Grad Dip SUT Grad Dip SUT Fellowship RMIT
28 Jan 2020
Emily Kame Kngwarreye began creating art when she was in her late seventies. Many of these early works, produced when she was working with the Utopia Women’s Batik Group from 1977 to 1988, were...
By Gavin Fry
28 Jan 2020
Art serves countless purposes in our lives, from simple decoration, commercial enterprise, political protest and cultural identity, to explorations of the human condition and our relationship to spiritual dimensions, belief and our relationship with the world and the cosmos. As...
