Even before he moved to Lavender Bay, Brett Whiteley had felt entranced by the contours of Sydney Harbour. He grew up in Longueville, a suburb on the lower north shore—a short boat ride from his future home—and that was where he liked to play in the mangroves and explore the edges of a city
Banksy's Weston Super Mare is one of the artist’s most well-known prints. Pictures on Walls originally published the screenprint in 2003 in an edition of 750, with only the first 150 copies signed, including the present example. It depicts an elderly citizen sitting blissfu
Seeking to escape the public attention garnered by winning both the Archibald and Wynne Prizes for 1948, William Dobell accepted an invitation from Sir Edward Hallstrom to travel to New Guinea’s highlands. For the famously reclusive artist, it would seem an out-of-character decision to fly t
As an English artist, the climate and architecture of Los Angeles was a revelation to the young David Hockney. Amidst its people and pools Hockney quickly found an artistic footing and a new subject in water. The idea of painting moving water as Hockney said, was ‘… very appealing to me … It
The artist Banksy is a provocateur who uses art to make political points. His prints and paintings critique authority and take air from serious issues by stealth. Banksy uses walls as the site for new meaning and inversions. Why practise art in a studio when life is more real at street level
Andy Warhol is arguably the most important contemporary artist of the twentieth century. The reasons are as many as they are various but perhaps the most far-reaching is Warhol’s use of serial imagery. By 1956, artists in London and New York were drawing upon popular and secondary media for
David Hockney is one of the most influential British artists of the twentieth century. Now well into the twenty-first century and into his eighties, Hockney shows no signs of fading from the cutting edge of artistic practice. Hockney has worked in a vast array of media including painting, ph
The sculpture Vault 1980 was commissioned in 1978 for Melbourne City Square. Once installed the sculpture provoked discussion and acrimony that led to Vault being relocated to Batman Park in 1981 and subsequently to Australian Centre of Contemporary Art in 2002.
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