Michael Johnson’s paintings depict the process of managing colour- observing its nature and exploring its depths; examining the place where areas of colour meet: ‘The edge is where the colours meet, not where the shapes change… the shape is the container for the colour. I’m interested in the
An important late work, Colour Abstract (Scene on the Harbour) 1960 encapsulates a defining moment within Dobell’s career. A keynote to his celebrated later style, the work delicately depicts the harbour at Wangi. Wangi was a special place for Dobell, initially providing refuge afte
The D.H. Lawrence paintings are the expression of an intimate bond between Garry Shead and the British author - famous for Lady Chatterley’s Lover and Sons and Lovers. Lawrence’s Kangaroo, written in 1922 and set in Australia, was inspiration for a highly personal
Robert Dickerson was born and raised in the inner Sydney suburb of Hurstville. He left school at the age of fourteen to work in a factory and for a time was also a professional boxer. In 1940 he joined the RAAF and served in Darwin and the Islands north of Australia before returning to facto
Morning Mist c1814 is a fine example of John Glover’s coveted English landscape paintings and contains the hallmarks of the picturesque movement that dominated English art in the early 1800s. It is also an important precursor to the paintings that Glover painted when he moved to Aus
Dickerson was in his mid-twenties when he painted The Literates, soon after his service in the Royal Australian Air Force in Darwin and Southeast Asia during the Second World War. After the war ended, Dickerson spent about a year on Morotai Island in Indonesia, waiting to be demobilised, whe
CJ HENDRY (born 1988)
Prada IT Bag 2014
ink on paper
150.0 x 223.0 cm
signed lower right: CJ Hendry
In traditional landscape painting, trees are typically employed as a compositional device – a means of framing a particular passage or view. In this watercolour by Albert Namatjira, the central tree has become a subject unto itself: we are presented with a portrait of an individual liv
The death of George Lambert in 1930 marked the end of the extraordinary life of a painter who in passing called neither Australia nor England home. Restlessness and energy marked Lambert’s life, and in death the tributes flowed from painters who saw Lambert as the great light of Australian p
Although the many mountain ranges that you catch sight of here both on the African as well as on the Arabian side appeared almost universally bare, the imposing forms and colours with the variation of the lighting are indescribably beautiful. I could hardly tear m