Australian Art
Australia’s regional galleries hold rich collections that demonstrate a powerful communal need to collect and display art. Victoria’s regional cities, in particular, are notably well endowed with public art collections and handsome buildings to house them. The gold rush towns were at the forefront in establishing public art galleries: the first, in Ballarat, was founded in 1884; Bendigo followed in 1887. There are now nineteen of them fairly evenly positioned across the state – between one and six hours’ drive from Melbourne – from Warrnambool (1886) in the south-west and Mildura (1956) in the north-west to Bairnsdale (1992) to the east.
... (read more)Ghost Nation: Imagined Space and Australian Visual Culture 1901–1939 by Laurie Duggan
by Isobel Crombie •
Present Tense: Anna Schwartz Gallery And Thirty-Five Years Of Contemporary Australian Art by Doug Hall
by Sophie Knezic •
Australian Art Exhibitions: Opening our eyes by Joanna Mendelssohn et al.
by Ron Radford •
Strange Country: Why Australian painting matters by Patrick McCaughey
by Mary Eagle •