Tim Storrier’s burning objects are among the most recognisable and successful motifs in Australian contemporary art. They dominate his oeuvre and have brought him immense critical and commercial acclaim both in Australia and internationally. Yet their inception was a...
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By menzies
28 May 2019
John Olsen has cultivated an impressive career spanning over six decades. His distinctive visual language combined with an intimate relationship with the Australian landscape sees his artworks propelled into a sphere of greatness unlike any other artist. We...
By menzies
28 May 2019
Amor’s paintings have a distinctive mood – an autumnal wistfulness. They often present a world that is haunted rather than peopled and they always seem to be created by a displaced witness – a Hitchcockian suspense pervades his paintings. Furthermore there is...
By menzies
28 May 2019
In 1980 the Rudy Komon Gallery in Sydney exhibited twenty- three Kelly paintings which were executed by Sidney Nolan in 1979 for an exhibition that was to coincide with the centenary of Ned Kelly’s death in 1880. The series, of which the present work formed a part,...
By menzies
28 May 2019
Metamorphosis belongs to the highly important series of paintings produced by Arthur Boyd after leaving Australia for England in 1959. Success in Australia meant that Boyd and his family could make the trip, and he arrived in England supported by letters of...
By menzies
28 May 2019
Margaret Olley is one of Australia’s most well-renowned painters of the still life subject. Her legacy to Australian art history is significant and her characteristic interior scenes are highly regarded and collected worldwide. Throughout her long and successful career, the still life was the...
By menzies
28 May 2019
The life and career of Arthur Boyd neatly spans most of the twentieth century, from his birth just after the end of the Great War until his death on the eve of the new century. Committed to the life of the artist from childhood, he achieved a unique place in...
By menzies
28 May 2019
Edwin Tanner began his working life at the Port Kembla steelworks in New South Wales, before qualifying as a civil engineer.1 Tanner’s early interests were manifold and extended to cycling, mathematics, aeronautics, classical music, poetry and analytic...
By menzies
28 May 2019
Charles Blackman strode on to the international stage with the Whitechapel Gallery’s 1961 exhibition, Recent Australian Painting, in which ‘a hothouse of geniuses suddenly stepped on to the pages of history.’1
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By menzies
28 May 2019
It is indeed a simple image made by a famous painter; one that situates the dilemma of all painters as they reach out into the world. Is it a mask that they hide behind? In Face 1979, Sidney Nolan toys with his lifelong image of the Ned Kelly mask. He moves it from the stuff of myth, to...
