The genesis of Emily Kame Kngwarreye’s painting lies in a range of experiences and custodial obligations she shared with other women in caring for Country and presiding over the transference of law – one ‘grows up’ the land as one ‘grows up’ children.¹ Her genius, however, stems f

Lloyd Rees lived an exceptionally long and creative life and rightfully came to be considered the ‘grand old man’ of Australian art having both the profile and the body of works suited to such an elevated position. Rees ennobled his vision of Australia with a European association and grandeu

Throughout an illustrious career of over ninety solo exhibitions, Margaret Olley never conformed to artistic trends. She showed little regard for contemporary modernism and abstraction, instead persisting with the subject of still-life. Olley’s richly textured and colourful compositions were

Throughout an illustrious career of over ninety solo exhibitions, Margaret Olley never conformed to artistic trends. She showed little regard for contemporary modernism and abstraction, instead persisting with the subject of still-life. Olley’s richly textured and colourful compositions were

The power of love is the galvanising force in Garry Shead’s recent creation, Grande Amore. For most of the last decade, the multi-award-winning artist has immersed himself in the work of Dante Alighieri, the great Italian poet born in Florence in 1265. The force that drove Dante and

Landscape, allegory, mythology: three defining characteristics of Boyd’s work come together in the present painting to create this powerful image from Boyd’s Shoalhaven period.

Boyd saw great beauty in the wild, untamed landscape surrounding the Shoalhaven, which so strongly contra

At Serengeti the great herds in migration are just like the walls of Lascaux come alive … These animals have a message for us in that they are unique – the message will become fossilized as the species die out.  One comes to view them as works which will not

Arthur Boyd’s Nebuchadnezzar series of the late 1960s is one of the defining groups of paintings of his career. Following the success of his seminal Brides series in 1958-59, Boyd moved to London where he continued to create darkly mythic paintings that culminated in the

That Fred Williams is in the first rank of landscape painters internationally needs little discussion. To investigate Williams’ world of painting is to see an artist so deeply engaged with the subject of landscape that the boast of being-best or indeed world-class is rendered obsolete.