Brett Whiteley’s elegantly subtle multi-media painting Heron, Rain and Wind of 1973, reveals a hidden, certainly lesser-known, side of the Sydney wunderkind...

This intriguing precursor to the Alice in Wonderland series has recently emerged from a private collection...

The relationship between artist Del Kathryn Barton, her audience, and the outlandish but very human images that find their way onto her canvas is a complex one. 

Irma Stern is one of South Africa’s best known artists and one of a few South African painters whose reputation extends beyond the African continent.

Margaret Preston painted The Green Curtain in London towards the end of her second trip to Europe...

James Gleeson carries the well-deserved mantle of being Australia’s first and foremost exponent of Surrealism.

Boyd had taken the idea of a half-caste groom wooing a half-caste bride, worked it into a series of large-scale paintings, each with their characters caged within the four sides of the picture plane, and constructed a kind of passion play about the tribulations associated with the pursuit of love.’1

Jeffrey Smart’s Study for Waiting for the Train of 1969-70 is one of his most visually balanced and acutely rendered urban scenes.

John Brack’s Backs and Fronts 1969, is one of the two key major paintings from his Ballroom dancing series which he painted largely in 1969 and exhibited for the first time in 1970.