In 1945, William Dobell moved to the small New South Wales coastal town of Wangi Wangi to seek a quieter existence. Two years before, the artist had won Australia’s most prestigious award for portraiture, the Archibald Prize, for his portrait of Joshua Smith. Following the artist’s win, two
The later paintings by Tom Roberts occupy a singular place in his career. In comparison to the famous '9 x 5s' painted early on in the artist’s career, and the great Shearing the Rams (1890) and Bailed Up (1895), his late paintings, mainly produced from ab
On 6 January 1923, Tom and Lillie Roberts departed England on board the Suevic, bound for Melbourne. The last two decades abroad had represented a ‘black period’ for the artist: his anticipated magnum opus – The Opening of the First Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia
‘This scenario has been the inspiration for my work for a number of years: my intention is to create work that encapsulates the concepts and ideas that intrigue me. I take historical subjects such as Dobell’s cows…and my own personal experience to build a framework wi During the 1970s, John Olsen’s work was greatly influenced by the journeys he made into the Australian interior, previously unexplored by the artist. He travelled with the film-makers Ken Duncan and Robert Raymond, scientist Dr Douglas Dorward and naturalist Vince Serventy. During his travel Melbourne prides itself as being one of the world’s most liveable cities, a place of culture, home to a vibrant arts scene with a penchant for festivals of every kind. A century ago it was already one of the largest urban centres of the world, but a very different place culturally and artist This remarkable painting came out of the most exhilarating period of Charles Blackman's life when his senses were on full alert and his aspirations as an artist at their height. Having won the 1960 Helena Rubenstein Travelling Scholarship, and settled in London with his family, he was living Brett Whiteley’s Study for Autumn (Near Bathurst) - Japanese Autumn of 1987-88 presents the opportunity to possess a late-period painting that amply displays the artist’s acute “eye” for visual impact and compositional panache. The present painting was created just f Nicholas Chevalier is one of the great names of Australian art of the 19th century. He arrived in Melbourne from Europe in 1854 as a young man, aged 26. His Swiss father and Russian born mother had encouraged his artistic talent from an early age, so that when he arrived he had al Garry Shead discovered the writings of Englishman David Herbert Richards “D. H” Lawrence (1885-1930) as a young man however it was not until later in life that the artist committed to a series of works on Lawrence’s book, Kangaroo. When he began the works, Shead was living in Bundee
25. JOHN KELLY
26. JOHN OLSEN
27. DANILA VASSILIEFF
28. CHARLES BLACKMAN
29. BRETT WHITELEY
30. NICHOLAS CHEVALIER
31. GARRY SHEAD