In 1772, Joseph Banks commissioned the foremost painter of animals in England, George Stubbs, to paint a dingo and a kangaroo. To our modern eyes the paintings lack the vitality and strength of the ...

Lenie Namatjira, "Mt Gillen, near Alice Springs" (2016), watercolor and fiber-tipped pen over pencil, 7.87 x 11 inches (© Lenie Namatjira/Licensed by Copyright ...

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He changed the way we see our country: an achievement which will live long after all of us are gone. — John Brack The Fred Williams in the You Yangs exhibition at the Geelong Gallery is neither the ...

While Indigenous Australian art is an incredibly broad and diverse term, encompassing a range of First Nations cultures and creators, one intriguing facet is the role art centers in Indigenous ...

The Doyles award committee is investigating why it took nearly 12 months to discover a winning landscape painting was an ...

Australian artist John Olsen, who died early this year aged 95, was honoured with a state-sponsored event at the Art Gallery of New South Wales acknowledging his more than seventy-year contribution to ...

Likeness and unlikeness : the American-Australian experience / Patrick McCaughey -- Landscape painting in America and Australia in an urban century / Elizabeth Johns -- The shaping of Australian ...

Thirty-five contemporary Australian artists have been selected as finalists for the 2024 edition of this esteemed annual $100,000 acquisitive landscape prize. Hadley’s may not be Australia’s most ...

Ngura Puḻka at the National Gallery of Australia is a landmark exhibition of 30 paintings by Indigenous artists in the APY Arts Centre Collective, which was investigated over claims white workers had ...