Acclaimed as a cultural leader and the seminal figure in establishing the East Kimberley School, Rover Thomas holds a primary place in the history of the Aboriginal art movement. However, he did not begin painting until in his fifties, having spent forty years as a stockman, droving cattle b

In 1980, John Olsen moved from Sydney to the regional centre of Wagga Wagga on the Murrumbidgee River. It was during his time here that he began experimenting with the idea of applying oil washes onto large canvases with great success – although these works had a notably different palette to

Garry Shead’s Royal Suite of paintings have become iconic images of their time. The works refer to a bygone innocence of Australian culture and society providing a glimpse of the reality which was realised much later, a reality where the Aboriginal people were marginalised and Australian sov

John Kelly (born 1965) burst onto the international art scene in 1999 when his bronze sculpture, Cow Up a Tree 1999 was selected to be displayed on the Champs-Elysées in Paris as part of an international exhibition of fifty sculptures celebrating t

Jason Benjamin visited Sicily in 2002 following the death of his father-in-law whose dream it had been to travel there – the artist and his extended family saw this wish through and rented a villa in the hills behind Catania. Benjamin’s time there was pivotal in shifting his thinking from th

Roger Kemp’s ‘Quest for Enlightenment’¹, a spiritual journey that engaged the artist over the length of his career, represents an important component of the Melbourne painting scene of the 50s and 60s. In many ways, Kemp’s work runs parallel to those of his friends and contemporar

Born around 1943 at Tjiturrunya, Ronnie Tjampitjinpa grew up as a member of the Pintupi tribe approximately one hundred kilometres west of the Kintore Ranges across the Western Australian border. Spending most of his early years with his family traveling throughout the remote and vast desert

In this monumental work, Pintupi artist Ronnie Tjampitjinpa depicts Kampuralagna, an area east of Kintoke, close to the Northern Territory and Western Australian border, in which he has links through his father. The Tjukurrpa (Dreaming) of this site is associated with the Tingari Cycle, a se

William Kentridge’s lively imagination and thoughtful intelligence, combined with his technical expertise across a wide range of media, have led to his exhibiting in cities around the world to wide acclaim. In 2003 he was awarded the prestigious Goslar Kaiserring Award, a prize which has bee

Fairweather’s painting Figures – Study of c1965, created around the time of his seventy-fourth year, is offered up for auction for the first time. Overall, it displays Fairweather’s process of semi-abstract ideation approximately nine years before his death of heart failure at the a