Kneeling Figure with Canvas and Black Can 1973, is the largest and one of the most powerful paintings that Arthur Boyd produced in England during 1972-73. Though painted at the Boyd’s rural property in Suffolk, England’s dappled light and heavy, moisture-laden skies are nowhere to b

The painter Sidney Nolan is universally regarded as Australia’s foremost modernist artist. Famed for his prodigious output in a career that spanned over five decades, there is no question that his most celebrated creation remains his paintings on the subject of Australia’s most notorious bus

Arthur Streeton painted this accomplished oil on canvas work at the height of his powers at the age fifty-seven, thirteen years before he was knighted for services to art. As such, it is typical of the skill and painterly qualities that brought him many justly earned acknowledgements. Most s

Queen Elizabeth II visited Australia for the first time on 3 February 1954, when Garry Shead was just twelve years old: she was the first reigning monarch to ever visit Australia. At the time, there was a massive outpouring of nationalism and it was estimated that seventy percent of the popu

Although Charles Blackman’s first exhibition took place in the modest surroundings of his suburban Melbourne studio in 1952, the evocative works which he was to paint in the early years of his career would set him on a trajectory leading to future critical success and popular adulation.

During and after the 1940s war years Sidney Nolan engaged both memory and myth, producing innovative modernist works from his St Kilda childhood and beginning his first tentative mediations on the Ned Kelly theme. The St Kilda works had a rebellious and escapist feel. They had been formulate

Arthur Boyd’s creative oeuvre covers a vast gamut of themes and stylistic developments; from naturalistic landscapes, to allegorical works charged with potent expressive symbolism. Boyd’s use of mythological and biblical subjects as a framework to create deeply expressive and original painti

This painting has been exhibited before the Queen, compared to works by Francis Bacon (1909-1992) and was held in Nolan’s own collection, then his estate, until 2011, a representation of his commitment to the father of modernism, French poet Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891).

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