Arthur Boyd sits in the highest echelon of Australian landscape painters. For over five decades, Boyd investigated the complexity and variety of the Australian bush, capturing its peculiarities and topographical features and imbuing it with his own idiosyncratic motifs and personal symbols.

Brett Whiteley wasn’t supposed to be back so soon. He had left home in 1960, destined for Europe, hungry for art, culture, experience. In Paris, from ‘Modigliani’s country’, he said he wanted to sit alone to see how ‘environment can mould, shape or even stain the personality of a genius.’

Brett Whiteley wasn’t supposed to be back so soon. He had left home in 1960, destined for Europe, hungry for art, culture, experience. In Paris, from ‘Modigliani’s country’, he said he wanted to sit alone to see how ‘environment can mould, shape or even stain the personality of a genius.’

In January 1963, John and Mary Perceval sold their family home in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs and moved to London. Their arrival coincided with what curator Bryan Robertson described as ‘the most auspicious moment in [the twentieth] century for the reception of Australian art by the English.

In January 1963, John and Mary Perceval sold their family home in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs and moved to London. Their arrival coincided with what curator Bryan Robertson described as ‘the most auspicious moment in [the twentieth] century for the reception of Australian art by the English.

Arthur Streeton began painting flowers while living in London, shortly after his marriage to Nora Clench in 1908. The artist and his wife settled into their new life and home, establishing a decorative English garden which would provide inspiration for his study of floral subjects. Streeton

Rural labour with a nationalist ethos has been a dominant theme in Australian art and literature from the mid-nineteenth century on. The art of Frederick McCubbin was at the forefront of these investigations; his fascination with epic narrative paintings of white settlement in Australia prod

Writing to fellow artist Walter Withers (1854-1914) in May 1909, Arthur Streeton reported, ‘I’m off with [Tom] Roberts on a cycling trip through Dorset to look for subjects for the Summer.’¹ This excursion through Roberts’ native county would follow in the footsteps of JMW Turner

In a career of six decades Arthur Boyd encompassed almost every form of artistic expression in two and three dimensions. Biographical notes tend to introduce him simply as a figurative expressionist painter, ceramicist and printmaker, but within those three simple modes he left no f

Occupying a unique position within the fabric of Australian art history, Robert Dickerson is one of our most celebrated figurative painters. Dickerson first rose to nationwide prominence as a member of the Antipodeans, alongside his contemporaries John Brack (1920-1999), Charles Blackman (19