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Works by many contemporary visual artists in Western Australia demonstrate a vital consciousness of the land. Western Australian art traces a presence on the land, a cultural loss and, ultimately, a belief in the future. Contemporary artists such as pai...
Winner of the 2007 Portia Geach Award. The Portia Geach Memorial Award is recognised as one of the most important celebrations of the talents and creativity of Australian female portrait painters. Winner of the 1992 Portia Geach Award. ...
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...
Brett 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...
Dion Archibald - Painter and Artist (more info)
An online gallery of Dion Archibald, based in Newcastle. Figurative, contemporary Australian painter/artist. Also includes a free weekly art quotes, art news, and art links newsletter.
Important Australian Painters "Winter Exhibition" Australian Abstract exhibition. Including works by important Australian painters such as Sidney Nolan, Carl Plate, John Coburn, Ken Whisson, Alun Leach-Jones and David Aspden. Sorry, there are no unsold w...
Painting, Sculpture, sculpture design - in stone, wood, metal, water. Internal-external Lamps, Furniture - tables, Civic design - Playgrounds, Commemorative walls. More recently he has worked extensively with several Landscape Architects on various design...
A variety of tiny imaginary creatures of the submarine world of the great oceans. Energetic activity of all creatures great and small. Beautiful ultramarine blue background and multi-coloured creatures all over the place....
1938 Born in Sydney 1953-59 Studied at the Julian Ashton Art School and National Art School, Sydney 1960-67 Lived in London 1961-62 Studied at Central School of Art, London 1963-64 Lecturer, Art History, St Michael’s School of Art, London 1965-67 Le...
Biography Margaret Preston was born Margaret Rose McPherson in Port Adelaide, 1875, and died in Mosman, Sydney in 1963. Collections National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and all state gallery collections Regional collections in Australia and New Zealand...
1963 Leveson Street Gallery, Melbourne 1965 Leveson Street Gallery, Melbourne 1972 Osborne and Polak Gallery, Melbourne 1974 Stuart Gerstman Gallery, Melbourne 1976 Coventry Gallery, Sydney 1976 Victor Mace Gallery, Brisbane 1977 Coventry Gallery, Sydney ...
Selected Solo Exhibitions 2002 Niagara Galleries, Melbourne 2001 Watters Gallery, Sydney 2000 Niagara Galleries, Melbourne 1999 Watters Gallery, Sydney 1998 Niagara Galleries, Melbourne 1997 Richard Salmon Gallery, London 1996 Niagara Galleries, Melbourne...
Collections Aspden is represented in National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Museums and Galleries of the Northern Territory, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of South Australia, and other ...
> Corio Prize Invitation Exhibition, Geelong Art Gallery, VIC (winner)> Contemporary Australian Painting, New Delhi, India> Benalla Invitation Prize, Benalla Art Gallery, VIC, (Acquired through the prize)> Directions, Arts Council of Australia, Canberra, ...
Updated 15/ 10/ 2008 KEN WHISSON Born in Lilydale, outside Melbourne, in 1927, Ken Whisson studied at Swinburne Technical College between 1944 and 1945. Te Papa Tangarewa, Museum of New Zealand, Wellington University Art Museum, Queensland University of ...
Works by many contemporary visual artists in Western Australia demonstrate a vital consciousness of the land. Western Australian art traces a presence on the land, a cultural loss and, ultimately, a belief in the future. Contemporary artists such as pai...
"Melbourne-born painter, John Firth-Smith, has lived for most of his life in Sydney close to the harbour and boats which provide the subject matter for much of his work. 2000 Macquarie Apartments, Sydney, designed by Renzo Piano, painting 1998 Deutsche Ba...
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1966 Bonython Art Gallery, Adelaide. 1970 Bonython Art Gallery, Adelaide. Capital Works , Contemporary Art from the Australian National Capital, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra; Takashimaya Gallery, Singapore; University Museum and Art Gallery, The Museum of...
1966 Bonython Art Gallery, Adelaide. 1970 Bonython Art Gallery, Adelaide. Survey 7, National Gallery of Victoria,Melb1980 Bonython Art Gallery, Adelaide....
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