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Brett Whiteley - Australia's Culture PortalBrett Whiteley is one of Australia's most revered artists. He won many prizes and awards and his work hangs in numerous galleries, including the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, the Tate Gallery in London and the Museum of Modern Art in New Yor...
Barbara Tucker, Albert Tucker, Arthur Boyd and Sidney Nolan, Hurstbridge, c. The Angry Penguin painters are considered to be the major figures of a modernist movement in Australian art, based in Melbourne, which has determined and shaped Australian conte...
Winner of the 2008 Archibald Prize. Image courtesy of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. An exhibition of the paintings shortlisted for judging, in conjunction with those shortlisted for the Wynne Prize and the Sulman Prize, is held at the Art Gallery o...
Artbank was founded by the Australian Government in 1980 to buy Australian contemporary art and rent it out to public and private sector clients. Instead of only seeing Australian art in galleries, Artbank ensures that more Australian art can be seen in m...
Grace Cossington Smith (1892-1984) was a leading Sydney painter in the Australian modernist movement, and her painting The Sock Knitter (1915) is generally regarded as Australia's first modernist work. Grace Cossington Smith, The Bridge in-Curve, c.1930, ...
Russell Drysdale, Picture of Donald Friend, 1948. Hill End, a gold-rush town, 85km north of Bathurst in central New South Wales (NSW) is a sacred site in both NSW and also Australian art history. These artists include: John Olsen, Margaret Olley, Jeffre...
The art of Margaret Olley is the art of deliberate choices. Olley's art teacher at Somerville House persuaded Olley's parents to send Margaret to art school. Margaret Olley is represented at the National Gallery of Australia, the Art Gallery of NSW, the...
Margaret Preston was an Australian painter and printmaker who was a leading example of early Australian modernism. Her essays and articles were published in Australian journals including Art in Australia , Undergrowth, Jindyworobak Review and Australia N...
John Glover (1767-1849), Australian landscape with cattle: the artist's property Patterdale , c. Image courtesy of the National Library of Australia: an2253188. The Heidelberg School was the first significant art movement in Australia. ...
Employing dream imagery, poetry and precarious juxtapositions, Australian artists in the 1930s and early 1940s responded to European surrealists and were part of an international surrealist movement - 'in all its clarity'. Many of Australia's best known a...
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The Brett Whiteley Studio was the workplace and home of Australian artist Brett Whiteley (1939-1992). The visitor is offered the unique opportunity to experience the atmosphere of the studio and living space, and the gallery has changing exhibitions of th
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Difficult Pleasure: A Portrait of Brett Whiteley (1989) - australian screen (website australianscreen )A biographical documentary that follows Australian artist Brett Whiteley as he travels from his studio in Sydney to London. Whiteley started painting in the 1960s in London and Paris before returning to Sydney. Producer-director Don Featherstone has mad...
irn=153615&search=david+mist&site_id=3 > 96/44/1-1/5 Photographic print, b&w, David Mist and Len Evans, paper, photographer unknown, Sydney, 1969 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=153615&search=david+mist&site_id=3 http://www.p...
category choose Category - Aboriginal Contemporary Modern Photography Prints and Drawings Tribal Asian Colonial Sculpture Ceramics Decorative Arts Furniture artist Lauraine Diggins Fine Art specialises in Australian colonial, impressionist, modern, conte...
Brett Whiteley’s talent and energy are legendary in Australian art. This Art Gallery of New South Wales travelling exhibition traces the nine phases of the artist’s life and career – from his earliest painting Self portrait at sixteen 1...
Robert Adamson (NSW) is the publisher of Paper Bark Press, one of Australia’s leading poetry publishing companies. He is the author of seventeen books of poetry such as The Clean Dark, which won the Victorian and NSW Premiers' prizes and Australia's...
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