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23. ROY LICHTENSTEIN

The master of artifice, the philosopher of the static image, Roy Lichtenstein encourages us to look again at our selected means of representation. To some admirers he will be forever cool, detached, ironic, ‘heroically untempted by meaning’1; the stylised, deadpan paragon of Pop w

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38. TIM STORRIER

Within the sculptural realm, Tim Storrier’s remarkable talent for capturing fine detail in two-dimensional form is further amplified. Storrier’s art stems from his ability to isolate a moment in time and perfect it with intense detail. Within his canvases, we see Storrier champion expansive

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39. GEORGE BALDESSIN

George Baldessin’s surrealist sculpture and printmaking quickly saw him rise to prominence within the Melbourne art scene in the 1970s, until his untimely death in a car accident at just 39 years of age.

Baldessin’s most prominent motif was his pears, which were employed as a symbo

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6. ARTHUR BOYD

After establishing himself as a leading artist in Australia with the Bride series, Arthur Boyd travelled to London with his family in 1959, where they remained until 1971. Boyd extended his success from Australia to Europe by exhibiting at numerous London galleries throughout the 19

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13. TIM MAGUIRE

From his first solo exhibition at Sydney’s Mori Gallery in 1984, the year of his postgraduate art studies in Sydney, Tim Maguire had looked beyond Australia to foreign fields as the ground for his maturation as an artist. His early international experience began that same year with a travel

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14. JOHN KELLY

Born into a working-class family in the UK, John Kelly was raised and educated in Australia, and now resides in County Cork, Ireland. As a university student, he came across a small and overlooked moment in Australian art history, in which the painter William Dobell was enlisted as a camoufl

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15. GARRY SHEAD

To date, Queen Elizabeth II has been the only reigning monarch to have visited Australia’s shores. It was a momentous occasion that stopped the nation and created inconceivable fanfare that lasted the entirety of her fifty-eight-day trip. As a young boy, Garry Shead was one of the hundreds o

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16. ARTHUR BOYD

The ‘figure in landscape’ occupies a long and honourable position in the iconography of Australian art, with Arthur Boyd one of its most acclaimed exponents. Historian Bernard Smith even coined the term ‘iconomorphic’ to describe paintings by Boyd (and fellow artist Sidney Nolan) in which im

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17. ARTHUR BOYD

Figures with a Dog represents a significant and highly accomplished painting from Arthur Boyd’s early years in England. Following his relocation from Australia in November 1959, a period of significant consolidation and change occurred in Boyd’s art. He had left behind the familiari

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18. GARRY SHEAD

Garry Shead is regarded as one of Australia’s finest narrative painters and printmakers. Along with Sidney Nolan and Arthur Boyd, Shead has illuminated the Australian story and its myths to a wide and appreciative audience. His imagery has an ability to transcend the personal and reach into

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