The exceptional quality of Joel Elenberg's artistic output was remarkable despite his career being cut short by cancer at the age of thirty two. Elenberg began his artistic career as a completely self taught painter, experimenting with crushing his own pigments however he later found himself

While Arthur Boyd’s unconventional and intensely creative upbringing was in many respects ideal for a prodigiously talented individual intent on an artistic career, it was far from perfect preparation for the constraints of army life.

The Boyd family’s concerns were more spiritual

In this elusive portrayal of his sleeping wife and muse, Charles Blackman masks the personal in the universal. With hindsight he was also signalling the end of his schoolgirl series (that was essentially a projection of himself) in favour of a more individual human experience in line with hi

Arthur Boyd consistently alternated between naturalistic and imaginative phases in his work; he would often return to the landscape genre after an exhaustive period of creative output. There is a certain sense of serenity present in Boyd’s depictions of the landscape, particularly after view

John Olsen, one of Australia’s best loved and most highly regarded artists, has achieved a rare feat in capturing the public imagination and the regard of critics and collectors alike. In addition to being awarded an OBE in 1977 and an Order of Australia in 20

The view towards Hobart across the Derwent River from Bellerive was popular amongst Tasmanian artists in the 19^th century. The same view appears in major works by Henry Gritten (1818-1873), Knud Bull (1811-1889) and Eugène von Guérard (1812-1901). For Haughton Forrest, who arrived

As Australia’s most celebrated painter of still life and interiors, Margaret Olley was also known for her forthright, no-nonsense attitude to life and art. She was an opinionated advocate for the traditional tenets of painting – holding views sometimes controversial in the face of theory-bas

In 1891 Melbourne was booming. The confidence of the period extended to the group of young but highly skilled and ambitious artists who emerged at the time.  In 1889 Arthur Streeton, together with his friends Tom Roberts (1856-1931) and Charles Conder (1868-1909) combined for the ‘9 x 5

Arthur Streeton first visited Venice on his honeymoon in April 1908. The famous city delighted him and he devoted the remainder of the year to painting it.

‘What a wonderful place it is, we stayed in a charming place in the Zattere … and I worked hard and did some good pieces.’

Tom Roberts is lauded for his iconic paintings of Australian cities, rural labour and the bush, but he is also an acclaimed portraitist. Among the many commissioned portraits of society women and men is a stand out group of sensitive depictions of his immediate family. These treasured works