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The Rick Amor Portrait Prize has been running for several years at Montsalvat Eltham Victoria and reopened for submissions earlier in the year after last year’s exhibition was halted due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Rick Amor is one of A… Read More “The Rick Amor Self Portrait Prize 2022”
Norman Lindsay achieved the mantle of one of Australia’s most significant artists of his generation, he was born in Creswick, Victoria, the son of Irish Surgeon Robert Charles William Alexander Lindsay (1843–1915) and Jane Elizabeth Lindsay (1848–1932).
His grandfather Re… Read More “Norman Lindsay (Australia 1879-1969) Artist Biography”
Jane Sutherland was an Australian impressionist artist, landscape painter, and teacher who was part of the burgeoning late nineteenth-century Australian “Plein-air” movement.
She significantly influenced professional and amateur women artists who followed her ground-breaki… Read More “Jane Sutherland (1853 – 1928) Biography”
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Charles Conder was a talented artist and critical contributor to the Heidelberg School Movement.
Conder was born in 1868 in London, the son of a civil engineer, and a direct descendant of Louis François Roubiliac, the 18th century sculptor, Conder was sent in 1884 to Sydney, Australia, age… Read More “Charles Conder (1868-1909) Biography”
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Thomas William (Tom) Roberts, was an Australian painter and one of the first impressionist artists in Australia.
He became a leading figure and had a profound impact on the Heidelberg School, a group of more than 20 Australian impressionist painters who used impressionistic techniques an… Read More “Tom Roberts (1856 – 1931) Biography”
The portrait of Mr Charles Stewart Paterson (1840-1915), by prolific Australian artist Tom Roberts (1856 – 1931) sold at a Menzies Sale 30th of June 2021 Sydney Australia.
The sale exceeded the presale top estimate A$120,000 – A$180,000 with the hammer coming down for the late 19th Century… Read More “Historical Artwork Goes Under the Hammer.”
Born in Sydney, 1924, was raised in the Depression era. At age 5 Dickerson took up drawing, mostly aeroplanes and warships. At age 14 trained as a boxer to help pay for the day to day expenses as life in general was tough & money was hard to earn, later Dickerson joined the RAAF as a guard, sket… Read More “Robert Henry Dickerson (Australian 1924-2015) AO”
Margaret Hannah Olley AC (1923 – 2011) Bio
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Margaret was one of Australia’s most significant still-life and interior painters She drew inspiration from her home and studio and the beauty of the everyday objects she gathered around her. Many of her paintings feature arrangem… Read More “Margaret Hannah Olley AC (1923 – 2011)”