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Senior Lecturer, Critical and Theoretical Studies, Victorian College of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, The University of Melbourne In 1772, Joseph Banks commissioned the foremost painter of ...

The last surviving member of a generation that defined his country’s modern art, he painted exuberant landscapes that changed the way Australia saw its environment. By Yan Zhuang Reporting from Sydney ...

An oil painting of an enormous cow is the star attraction at a regional Australian gallery. How did the genre of massive ...

Seven years ago, I spent a few days at Newhaven, a property on the edge of the Great Sandy Desert owned and administered by the Australian Wildlife Conservancy (AWC). Last week, I returned, in company ...

Alexandra Crosby does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

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 ...

Enter the 2026 Harden Art Prize – a $15,000 national acquisitive landscape painting award celebrating Australia’s finest ...

Impressionism is often seen as an exclusively European movement, dominated by the likes of Monet, Degas and Manet. A new exhibition at the National Gallery pushes these Europeans into the background. ...

Baron Field, the first Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, wondered whether Australia was, in fact, an aberration, calling it a “barren wood” and an “after-birth”. In 1906 an English ...