The numbers don’t lie. CJ Hendry, born in South Africa, raised in Australia and now based in New York, has built a social media empire considerably larger than her peers. And she’s done it by harnessing the power of her art.

On Instagram, Hendry has accumulated almost 600,000 follo

By the late 1960s, when the present work was created, Charles Blackman had already exhibited his three major series: the Schoolgirls paintings of 1951 to 1954, the Alice in Wonderland paintings of 1956, and the Faces and Flowers paintings of the late 1950s – all mo

A solitary woman is walking away from us, strolling down the road of a modern city. There is a breeze: a scrap of paper tumbles across the road. Sharp shadows cut cross the scene and streaks of cloud darken the sky. The woman has an umbrella open and yet there is no sign of rain. Although th

Patricia with Fruit and Flowers belongs to a rare and important group of works created in Brisbane during the 1960s, when Margaret Olley first achieved recognition on a national scale.  In 1962 Olley was heralded by the Courier-Mail as Australia’s ‘top woman painter’ f

Were Grace Cossington Smith to be alive today, she would probably have been unfazed by the prospect of spending months at home.  Of course, Cossington Smith never had to run the gauntlet of Zoom calls or home-schooling – though she was a devoted carer to her sister Diddy, who fell ill i

Ethel Carrick’s depictions of France during la Belle Époque are undoubtedly some of her best and most accomplished works. This period of the artist’s life was one full of contentment and discovery which is evident in the subjects and execution of these works.

Born in Engla

The heady artistic atmosphere of fin de siècle Paris captivated the young Rupert Bunny, when he moved there in 1886 as a twenty-four-year-old art student. By the late 1880s Bunny’s sociable nature was well known and earned him a place in artistic circles that included some of the cr

Arthur Streeton is unquestionably the greatest Australian landscape painter of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His position is unique as was his ability to have straddled both centuries and to have painted within Australia and abroad with all the customary energy and commi

Study for ‘Still Glides the Stream’ 1887-88 was painted when Arthur Streeton was twenty-one. Already recognised as a rising star of Australian art – Streeton had painted from the age of thirteen – the precociously talented and highly ambitious painter eschewed formal art school trai

Returning to Australia in December 1964 after several months in Europe, Fred Williams embarked on a sequence of works that would cement his reputation as Australia’s most accomplished landscape painter in the post-war era. The Upwey series of 1964-66 stands as Williams’ central artistic achi