Cypriot-born sculptor Phillip Piperides describes his practice with a succinctness which belies the inspiration, craftsmanship and sheer toil required to create works such as Sensuous Nude 2003.
‘I have forever been intrigued with the human form. More than naturalistic representations
During his long and prestigious career, Arthur Boyd depicted subjects ranging from sparse, yet elegant landscapes to intensely allegorical pictures overflowing with imagery.
His prodigious talents, which extended across a broad range of media, including painting in oil and
My garden holds me like its private dream
A secret pleasure, guarded and apart.
Now as I lean above the pool I seem
The image of my image in its heart.
In that inverted world a scarlet fish
Drifts through the trees and swims into the sky,
So in the c
There are certain landscapes that appeal to an individual’s sensibility. In the case of Jason Benjamin (born 1971), that region stretches from the Hay Plain to the Monaro in the south-east of New South Wales. Love Goes On! 2013, is a work that had its origins in the austere expanse of these
Having spent five years in London, Fred Williams returned to Australia in December 1956 to immerse himself in a landscape familiar in its strangeness.1 In dramatic contrast to the picturesque greenery of the English countryside, Williams observed an Australian landscape that was brown, flat
The current work, Velázquez and Muse (Homage to Las Meninas), from the ‘Artist and Muse’ series, is from a group of works in which Shead pays homage to the great European Masters – Rembrandt, Goya and Velázquez. The artist first studied these painters in detail during the 1980s when tr
John Olsen painted Mallee Road to Nhill 1981, soon after he had left Wagga Wagga to live in Adelaide. Enlivened by the dry climate, sunny skies, fresh surroundings and the conviviality of making new friends, Olsen relived the joie de vivre of his Spanish period, in particular the time he had
In 1918 while living in London, Arthur Streeton was appointed an official war artist by the Australian War Memorial. The artist travelled to France to record the involvement of Australian soldiers in the battles along the Somme River. The old city of Amiens lays approximately one hundred kil
The sun and it’s light…a metaphor of life, but also of the incomprehensible and unencompassable universe, its expression is metaphysical.1
Titan of Australian landscape painting, Lloyd Rees, had an extensive career spanning over seven decades. It was in the
Roger Kemp is the Australian painter who most the embodies the philosophy, aims and values of Abstract art. Of the big names: Godfrey Miller (1893-1964), John Passmore (1914-2004), Tony Tuckson (1921-1973), John Coburn (1925-2006) and Robert Klippel (1920-2001), Kemp is the individual who mo