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42. ROBERT KLIPPEL

Robert Klippel’s work was always recognised by those with discernment. The late and great Robert Hughes was typically incisive in his judgement. Writing in the national journal Art and Australia in 1964, Hughes delivered the following prodding assertion: ‘Five years ago, it would ha

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43. EMILY KAME KNGWARREYE

Emily Kame Kngwarreye lived her entire life in one of the world’s most remote regions, an area called Utopia on the edge of the Simpson Desert. It was here that Kngwarreye began to paint on canvas for the first time at almost eighty years of age, after a lifetime of transient mark-making in

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52. RETNA

RETNA, born Marquis Lewis, is one of the most successful street artists in the world. Born and raised in Los Angeles, he was inspired by the booming L.A. graffiti scene from a young age, picking up his first can of spray paint at just nine years old. As a teenager in the 1990s, Lewis chose h

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The Week's Focus – Women Artists

The Australian auction market is currently experiencing a welcome increase in demand for works by women artists across all genres.

This comes off the back of a dedicated push by public institutions, for example, the Know

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20. BEN QUILTY

The birds are important. The budgies, mynas and cockatoos that populate Ben Quilty’s work are far more than just cutesy, faintly menacing characters. They are ciphers for a provocative exploration of Australian masculinity and the inexorable degradation of the Australian environment as a res

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20. BEN QUILTY

The birds are important. The budgies, mynas and cockatoos that populate Ben Quilty’s work are far more than just cutesy, faintly menacing characters. They are ciphers for a provocative exploration of Australian masculinity and the inexorable degradation of the Australian environment as a res

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21. SIDNEY NOLAN

‘Nolan’s Antarctica is the anxious and apprehensive land; the paint is clogged, swirled, cluttered, the spirit troubled.’

Elwyn Lynn, September 1965

Sidney Nolan was captivated by places that were vast, remote and often inhospitable. Antarctica was one su

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22. JOHN PERCEVAL

John Perceval’s 1961 painting, Beach Studio, captures the jovial atmosphere of the Aspendale beach house owned by his friends and patrons, John and Sunday Reed. Designed by Melbourne architect David McGlashan – who would go on to create the Reeds’ most famous home, Heide II

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23. JOHN OLSEN

Ken McGregor and Jenny Zimmer chose Businessman Getting Ready for Work 2003 for a full-page illustration in their monograph on John Olsen, Journeys into the ‘You Beaut Country’. It appears alongside an excerpt from the artist’s diary praising the simple pleasure of a poache

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