Clarice Beckett 'Boatsheds' photography

Clarice Beckett 'Boatsheds' photographyDespite being heralded as a visionary of Australian art, Clarice Beckett led a small life. She never married, caring for her invalid mother in the Bayside suburb of Beaumaris before her premature death at age forty eight. Posthumously, her father destroyed 200 of her works that he considered unfinished or not good enough. The remaining 2000 were stored in an open sided shed near Benalla, only to be discovered decades later; by then only 379 were

Finley was a model and friend of artists Charles Blackman and Judy Cassab

The figure

John Perceval came of artistic age as part of the Angry Penguins

Her striking features and clothing recall ancient Roman busts and Pompeian frescoes

he turns his attention to a turkey

On Fabriano Elegance paper

‘Traveling South’ is an elegant and lasting image

Rather than centered around love however

Do you recognise this face

Pugh purchased land at Cottles Bridge: the eventual site of the artist’s community ‘Dunmoochin’

Bloomfield is also known for being controversially withdrawn from the Archibald prize in 1975 for having painted his portrait of Tim Burstall from a photograph

Sidney NOLAN (1917 - 1992)