Rover Thomas Joolama (Julama) was born at Yalda Soak in the Great Sandy Desert near Kunawarritji (Gunawaggi or Well 33) on the Canning Stock Route, which runs north/south for over 1,000 kilometres in Western Australia. Now recognised as a colonial folly, the creation and management

When Lloyd Rees died in 1988 the nation lost one of its most loved and admired artists, lauded in that year by the Australian Bicentennial Authority as one of ‘two hundred people who made Australia great’. Despite the public outpourings of grief and recognition, Rees had not always been

Margaret Olley’s most well-known and best loved paintings are undoubtedly her still life works – throughout her life, the artist had the ability to create beautifully crafted tableaux from the objects which she lived with. Her home and studio, which have been recreated at the Tweed Regional

In Interior with Josephine, London 1934, Nora Heysen extends the art of still life to embrace a sitter and domestic scene, bathed in autumnal light. The light and stillness recall the great Dutch seventeenth-century painter Johannes Vermeer (1632-1795), whom she greatly admired

Margaret Preston painted The Green Curtain in London towards the end of her second trip to Europe, a stay that lasted for seven years – from 1912 to 1919 – and was of critical importance in shaping the direction of her art. During that period her still life painting transformed from

John Perceval, a prodigiously talented yet largely self-taught artist, held his first solo exhibition in 1948 at the age of 23 and went on to win the Wynne Prize for landscape painting in 1960. The following year, several examples of his work were featured in the Whitechapel Gallery’s iconic

Sweet Shop is a jewel in the sizable group of pictures that were based on hand-painted advertisements, posters and signs adorning railway platforms and corner shops. Charles Blackman embarked on them after altering the coach house to make way for larger paintings. He later recalled