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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 contemporary art. Th...

A talented landscape painter with a strong reputation in England (and France), Glover was never seen as an artist who 'pushed the boundaries'. The Heidelberg School was the first significant art movement in Australia. He studied impressionism in Europe ...

The winning entry is judged by the Trustees 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, the Sulman Prize and the Australian Photographic Portrai...

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...

Grace Cossington Smith 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, tempera on c...

Bark Painting, Evans Collection, Northern Territory Library. Australian Indigenous art is the oldest ongoing tradition of art in the world. There are also many galleries and exhibitions of Indigenous Art on the Internet, which have enhanced the internat...

Centred around poet Max Harris, the movement took their name from an art and literary magazine first published by Harris in 1940. The Angry Penguins, to quote Max Harris, expressed 'a noisy and aggressive revolutionary modernism' and represented the new l...

There is no doubt that the bush has an iconic status in Australian life and has featured strongly in any debate about national identity. Indeed, it has been revered as a source of national ideals by the likes of Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson. Australia...

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...

The Portia Geach Memorial Award is recognised as one of the most important celebrations of the talents and creativity of Australian female portrait painters. The Award is held each year at the National Trust's SH Ervin Gallery in Sydney. Born in Melbourn...

Art forms such as dance, theatre, writing, music and the visual arts draw on the creativity and interests of Australians of many abilities. According to The Australia Council, 'nineteen per cent of the Australian population lives with a disability and cl...

Sculpture is part of many everyday Australian places including streets, public squares, buildings, parks and gardens. The influence of sculpture is obvious in the overall design of some notable Australian buildings such as Federation Square and The Austr...

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...

Australia has a strong and vibrant history of political cartooning. Running since 1996, the National Museum of Australia hosts the Behind the Lines: The Year's Best Cartoons exhibition. Every year, young Australian cartoonists are encouraged to enter the...

In addition to the female colonists there were female Indigenous Australians - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women whose lives were changed dramatically when the English colonists arrived in large numbers. The lives of women like Truganini, Walye...

Sydney Harbour Bridge at sunset. It is the world's largest (but not the longest) steel arch bridge with the top of the bridge standing 134 metres above the harbour. Sydney Harbour Bridge, circa 1932....

The bushranger Ned Kelly is one of Australia's greatest folk heroes. More books, songs and websites have been written about Ned Kelly and the Kelly Gang than any other group of Australian historical figures. An extensive history of Ned Kelly and the Kell...

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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.

Susan Dorothea White - sculptor, painter, printmaker   (more info)

Susan Dorothea White is an internationally known artist living and working in Sydney. She is a painter, sculptor, printmaker, and author of Draw Like Da Vinci (London: Cassell, 2006). Visit this site for information about exhibitions, reviews and contact