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30. WILLIAM ROBINSON

Few artists have captured the beauty and sheer luxuriance of the Australian rainforest as successfully as William Robinson. While we associate Australia’s best-known artists with their convincing representations of the scrubby bush or sun-bleached rugged coast, it is Robinson who stands abov

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31. ARTHUR BOYD

Arthur Boyd’s Potter Dreaming of Gold is a subject that presents a thought-provoking depiction of the preciousness and precariousness of human existence. A central theme of Arthur Boyd’s oeuvre, the preciousness/precariousness duality, so often commented on by other writers,1 <

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32. JOHN PERCEVAL

John Perceval’s maritime scenes, which capture the chaos and joy of the docks at Williamstown, are considered the pinnacle of his eminent career. They are among the most jubilant depictions of the Australian landscape, which is more often portrayed as vast and desolate. Instead of endless de

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33. TIM MAGUIRE

Tim Maguire’s signature flower paintings are no more about flowers than those of such earlier painters of the motif as Georgia O’Keeffe and Andy Warhol. It is a means to an end, as Maguire’s own remark makes clear: ‘If the flower paintings mean anything, it’s to do with the way they are made

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38. ROBERT OWEN

[My work] also attempts to embody a sense of presence; it gives a direct experience to the viewer … it is always that direct relationship you have with the viewer that causes something to stir.1

Robert Owen’s Afternoon Glow #2 harmoniously records the colour gam

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59. RUSSELL DRYSDALE

The year of 1941 proved to be a watershed in the development of Russell Drysdale’s art. Drysdale relinquished a long-held desire to work the land and instead chose to focus exclusively on painting and drawing. He produced his most significant pictures after moving from his family’s property

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03. MARGARET OLLEY

Columbines 1962 dates from a critical phase of Margaret Olley’s career, when she first achieved recognition on a national scale.  In 1962, Olley was heralded by the Courier-Mail as Australia’s ‘top woman painter’ following a sell-out sh

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04. CRESSIDA CAMPBELL

Now that Cressida Campbell has so completely emerged and has achieved her place as one of Australia’s most important contemporary artists, it would be impossible to conceive of another painter so involved with the lived environment. She is both painter and

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12. JEFFREY SMART

It’s a rare occurrence in Jeffrey Smart’s work that we find a figure in motion – let alone the strenuous, spectacular motion of a gymnast. Smart built his art on stillness, the kind of stillness found in the paintings of Piero della Francesca, as celebrated in monogra

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