Acting on its mandate to collect and preserve Victoria's documentary heritage, the State Library of Victoria acquires paintings, maps, diaries and documents that showcase all facets of Victorian life. This work is a celebrati

Howard Arkley was more interested in the suburbs than any artist of his generation ? indeed of any painter in the history of Australian art. Critics have puzzled over his gaze on suburbia: do his paintings mock suburban lif

At the core of Fiona Hall?s work is the intersection of nature and culture. Over the past four decades her art has focussed on the natural world?its complex processes as well as its wonders?and in recent years has reflected

Focuses on the elusive nature of Australian nationalism as it is defined by visual images drawn from a vast variety of sources.

Imants Tillers: one world many visions is a landmark publications on a major Australia artist. Tillers? art received considerable international recognition in the 1980s. In 1986 he was selected as the artist to represent Australia at the Venice

Perhaps more than any other post-war artists, John Olsen and Fred Williams have helped Australians see their landscape and its features with fresh vision. This book presents a selection of several hundred paintings and drawin

The art of Jon Cattapan--from his student days of Dadaist grotesquerie and surrealist erotica to more modern explorations of global information flows and urbanism--is vividly presented in this monograph. Containing e

Harper's subject matter is restricted to a simple vocabulary of pure abstract shapes and colours. her paintings are a celebration of colour, forming a visual kaleidoscope painted in a systematic way and usually in groups and

Richly illustrated and beautifully designed, "Modern Times: The Untold Story of Modernism in Australia" reveals how modernism transformed all aspects of Australian culture across five tumultuous decades from 1917 to

Alfred Felton, a bachelor of definite opinions and benignly eccentric habits, was one of the remarkable group of Melbourne merchants who dominated the economy of the Australian colonies in the decades after the gold r

Featuring more than 160 images, this biography on Ian Burn, an art historian, explores his unique contribution to Australian art as an artist, writer, and curator. It traces his extraordinary body of work, presenting it throu

Rick Amor was born in Frankston, Victoria Australia. He has a certificate in art from the Caulfield Institute of Technology, and Associate Diploma in Painting from the National Gallery School, Melbourne.

He began exhibiting at the

Salvatore Zofrea: the Palms Of Life is a journey; a journey now

Established in 1895, the Venice Biennale is one of the world's most important critical forums for contemporary visual art. For the 2007 Venice Biennale, three Australian artists have been selected to represent Australia. This