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42. GARRY SHEAD

Garry Shead’s formidable reputation is built on his powerful series of narrative works, rooted in literature and the events of the past. In that he is not unusual, echoing the likes of Sidney Nolan (1917-1992) and the Ned Kelly paintings as milestones in Australian art. The ‘narrative’ is a

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43. ARTHUR BOYD

Like his good friend Sidney Nolan (1917-1992), Arthur Boyd knew the value of a leitmotif: a theme that could furnish him with a story which could be turned to good use at will, become a framework or testbed to experiment with new ideas and be subjected to serialisation. Albert Tucke

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44. RICK AMOR

In early 1991 Rick Amor was awarded the Visual Arts and Craft Board’s studio in Barcelona.  As a keen admirer of Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Amor was thrilled to be visiting the city that had nourished this artistic hero of his youth, even citing Barcelona’s Museo Picasso in his applicat

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45. JOHN OLSEN

With a career spanning over seven decades, John Olsen is one of Australia’s most celebrated artists whose works continue to surprise and delight audiences. Olsen’s work presents the viewer with a new way to imagine and experience the land and animals. Nature, poetry, the Australian landscape

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46. ARTHUR BOYD

In 1958, Arthur Boyd was given significant recognition with an invitation to exhibit at the Venice Biennale. In a somewhat unexpected pairing, he was to be shown alongside Sir Arthur Streeton (1867-1943), Australia’s most significant painter of the previous generation who had died fifteen ye

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47. FRED WILLIAMS

Bayswater Landscape dates from a formative period of Fred Williams’ career, when the artist returned from five years in London to embark upon a radical reappraisal of the Australian landscape. Hitherto, Williams’ art had largely concentrated on the human figure – his whimsical etchi

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48. JOY HESTER

The story of Joy Hester’s art and life is bound up in the mythology of Heide, and the personal complexities that underpinned astounding developments in Australian art and homegrown modernity that evolved at Heide around the mid-twentieth century.

John and Sunday Reed purchased the

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BRETT WHITELEY

While he knew that a painter’s ‘best spokesman’ was their work, Henri Matisse (1869-1954) still went to great lengths to explain his creative process. In 1908, he recorded his thoughts about order and clarity, the way a work of art should be ‘harmonious in its entirety’ and its entire arrang

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