I am in the landscape, and the landscape is in me, that’s the experience that drives the line. Once I get a central rhythm going, it propels itself. I feel a rapport and one thing suggests another, asks a question, sees a connection just like a poetical form. It’s telling me, push me this wa
Ian Fairweather’s paintings are very keenly sought by discerning collectors and galleries right through the nation. Once they are bought they tend to be held and rarely appear on the market. In fact, the artist’s works have been offered for public sale in Australia as few as seventy-one time
The world evoked by Del Kathryn Barton can appear disturbing and fractionate yet the multiplicity of parts also convey a reassuring sense of wholeness and depth of coexistence. A two-time winner of the Archibald Prize, Barton investigates ideas to do with the representation of human identity
Cubism was the most important art movement in the last Century and art historians now agree that Jacques Lipchitz was the first Cubist sculptor. 1.
Lipchitz’s sculptures have always been very highly regarded and the incisively perceptive Pablo Picasso was one of their ea
One extraordinary thing is often forgotten: the collection of Australian Art at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra is housed in the Fred Williams Galleries. This unusual and fitting honour was awarded in tribute to an extraordinary artist.
One of the most remarka
Russell Drysdale was an unusually significant artist. He not only changed how we see and perceive Australia’s rural interior landscapes, but also lived long enough to see his artistic themes and broad humanist convictions adopted by a later generation of artists and accepted by the Australia
John Perceval’s Williamstown series of paintings form a coveted collection of works. Most of the thirty or so paintings that he produced around Williamstown and the mouth of the Yarra River during 1956 to 1959 are held either in major public collections or were acquired early on by astute pr
Most people in Australia know Lloyd Rees’s paintings. Most in Sydney value them highly. This justifiably high regard has a long history. In fairness, it must be admitted that at times such great regard has waxed and waned and that, in the minds of some, there were periods when Rees’s reputat
Young Prince of Tyre and Colloquy with John Keats, both painted in 2003, are two early key paintings in the Ern Malley series in which there is a specific reference to the verse of Ern Malley, details from the poet’s biography, as well as a general philosophical exploration of the idea that
Jeffrey Smart was an extremely well-travelled artist. His many road trips as a passenger (he did not drive) provided him with the opportunity to scan urban and suburban landscapes looking for strange juxtapositions, unusual events and odd placements. Such metropolitan vignettes were collecte