Ethel Carrick’s depictions of France during la Belle Époque are undoubtedly some of her best and most accomplished works. This period of the artist’s life was one full of contentment and discovery which is evident in the subjects and execution of these works.
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Art Reviews
By Marguerite Brown MA - Art Curatorship
04 Nov 2021
The heady artistic atmosphere of fin de siècle Paris captivated the young Rupert Bunny, when he moved there in 1886 as a twenty-four-year-old art student. By the late 1880s Bunny’s sociable nature was well known and earned him a place in artistic circles that included some of the...
By BRETT BALLARD
04 Nov 2021
Arthur Streeton is unquestionably the greatest Australian landscape painter of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His position is unique as was his ability to have straddled both centuries and to have painted within Australia and abroad with all the customary energy and...
By Rodney James
04 Nov 2021
Study for ‘Still Glides the Stream’ 1887-88 was painted when Arthur Streeton was twenty-one. Already recognised as a rising star of Australian art – Streeton had painted from the age of thirteen – the precociously talented and highly ambitious painter eschewed formal art school training...
By Catherine Baxendale
04 Nov 2021
Returning to Australia in December 1964 after several months in Europe, Fred Williams embarked on a sequence of works that would cement his reputation as Australia’s most accomplished landscape painter in the post-war era. The Upwey series of 1964-66 stands as Williams’ central artistic...
By Rodney James
04 Nov 2021
What I’m talking about is the artist as hunter gatherer. Being daring, and not frightened of the outcome. You’re a journeyman, in the real sense. It’s not the question of failure, it’s the question of understanding and feeling, where you’re able to inhabit your...
By Jane Raffan
04 Nov 2021
The genesis of Emily Kame Kngwarreye’s painting lies in a range of experiences and custodial obligations she shared with other women in caring for Country and presiding over the transference of law – one ‘grows up’ the land as one ‘grows up’ children.1 Her genius, however, stems from...
By Anonymous
04 Nov 2021
Lloyd Rees lived an exceptionally long and creative life and rightfully came to be considered the ‘grand old man’ of Australian art having both the profile and the body of works suited to such an elevated position. Rees ennobled his vision of Australia with a European association and grandeur...
By Asta Cameron
04 Nov 2021
Throughout an illustrious career of over ninety solo exhibitions, Margaret Olley never conformed to artistic trends. She showed little regard for contemporary modernism and abstraction, instead persisting with the subject of still-life. Olley’s richly textured and colourful compositions were in...
By Asta Cameron
04 Nov 2021
Throughout an illustrious career of over ninety solo exhibitions, Margaret Olley never conformed to artistic trends. She showed little regard for contemporary modernism and abstraction, instead persisting with the subject of still-life. Olley’s richly textured and colourful compositions were in...