Implement blue
She feels that this is a mechanical age - a scientific one - highly civilised and unaesthetic. She knows that the time has come to express her surroun...
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Explore works from our Australian collection. Click on the linked artwork to find out if it is currently on display in the Gallery. Sidney Nolan First-class marksman 1946 (detail)
brumby mound #6
Since the 1980s, Rosemary Laing has explored the power of photography to invoke and unravel assumptions about landscape and place. In her series one d...
Bugatti Type 35
James Angus’s sculptures usually find their subject in things that already exist in the world. His works can be divided into two main spheres, natural...
Counting: one, two, three
This painting is from 'The book of power' series of multi-canvas appropriation works which Imants Tillers began in 1981 and still continues. Tillers c...
No 329
With a career spanning six decades, Robert Klippel was one of Australia’s leading sculptors. His work investigates the relationship between the organi...
White lines (vertical) on ultramarine
If we consider the several components manifested in a work of art ... foremost is man himself, the artist ... but equally important is the use of his ...
Last Supper
After returning to Australia following his ill-fated raft journey to Timor in 1952, Ian Fairweather moved to Bribie Island in Queensland. Here he bega...
First-class marksman
'First-class marksman' shows the isolated figure of Ned Kelly in the solid black armour that is Nolan's most inventive pictorial device, its flat abst...
The expulsion
'The expulsion' completes Arthur Boyd’s cycle of biblical-themed paintings which he began in 1944. Based on the Old Testament story of Adam and Eve ex...
Five bells
Five bells was my first commission to paint in situ to cover a wall … I didn’t hesitate. I brushed a line around the core theme, the seed-burst, the l...