Collectors, connoisseurs and curators alike have long recognised John Olsen’s enduring status as one of Australia’s most successful contemporary artists. The present painting, Popping Blue Bottles, Life by the Sea of 2007, is in the uppermost register of the quality of paintings tha

Finale 1973, was the last and most ambitious of John Brack’s Ice skating rink paintings. It was one of the key paintings in his exhibition held at the Joseph Brown Gallery in Melbourne in July 1973, where it promptly sold and later that year it was re-exhibited, marked ‘not

Sidney Nolan’s standing as Australia’s most significant modernist painter is universally recognised –demonstrated most recently by the landmark retrospective exhibition curated by Barry Pearce for the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 2007.

Central to this exhibition was, of course

In Eugene von Guérard’s paintings what is offered is always more than what is depicted. That is the essence of artistic Romanticism. Always, there is a reaching beyond the mere appearance of things – that is, beyond the more meagre grasp of Realism. So it is with von Guérar

Rodin is the world’s best-known Twentieth Century sculptor. In fact, he is almost history’s best-known sculptor, falling somewhere behind the incomparable Michelangelo in the public mind. This is something that Rodin would certainly have accepted since Michelangelo was the sculptor who he ad

The winner of the 1993 Moet and Chandon Fellowship, Tim Maguire’s work came to prominence as a research project into the effects of light on paired water tanks. He had already been immersed in theoretical developments through Art history studies at the University of Sydney and later at East

As one of Australia’s most significant contemporary artists, Tim Storrier has developed a body of work that is instantly recognisable and universally admired. His outback paintings evoke wondrous feelings of nature and of the Earth as an arena of mysterious rituals, ceremony and elemental su

Described by the curator Margo Neale as a ‘cultural terrorist of gentle irreverence’,¹ Onus, a self-taught artist of Yorta Yorta and Scottish descent, left school at the age of 14 and worked as a motor mechanic and spray painter before joining his father making artifacts for the t

Garry Shead is one of Australia’s greatest living artists and arguably amongst our greatest figurative painters with an impressive career spanning over half a century.  Bedroom Tango c2000 has a spiritual-like responsiveness to the intricacies of human desire. It is a veritable foray in

The present painting, The Absence of Philosophy depicts a small street with a narrow footpath at the base of a large monolithic building with a single multi-paned arch window within which may be seen the torso of a human skeleton. The street, almost certainly Little Lonsdale Street