George Hairbrush
George Hairbrush Tjungurrayi arrived at Papunya in 1962 after walking in from the Gibson Desert in Western Australia. When the Desert Art painting movement began at Papunya in 1971 George assisted other senior artists with their paintings. Then he began painting his own works around 1976 with the encouragement of senior lawman Nosepeg Tjupurrula. The […]
Benjamin Storch
Michael Whitehead
‘I believe a painting has to be instinctive and have a sense of urgency, but at the same time it has to be a considered work. If paint runs across a canvas it’s because I’m happy for it to go there or I may have even encouraged it to do so. Every stroke, line and […]
Crispin Akerman
Crispin Akerman is a visual artist living and working in the South West of Western Australia. He grew up in the Perth Hills then Wanneroo where he spent his spare time in the bush, drawing, painting, and playing music. He went to Claremont art school for a brief time before joining Perth band Eurogliders. After […]
John Santucci
Moving to Byron Bay a few years ago my work was mainly focused on surreal cityscapes and whimsical caravans, new surroundings launched thoughts of new directions. I didn’t want to pursue seascapes and lighthouses, instead I chose a subject that was quite literally staring me in the face. Our garden was somewhat basic, but Byron’s […]
Chanelle Rose
Chanelle Rose is an Australian contemporary fine artist, known for her striking characters and highly detailed large-scale artworks using ink, and more recently oil paint. With a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Contemporary Art, Chanelle’s work is inspired by human behaviour during life events, where good people are challenged to override the impacts of […]
Peter Smets
Peter Smets is the man of the moment in the Australian art world. He is the country’s young Old Master. For this exquisite example of his eloquent and highly finessed painting style, it is the old master he has most assiduously emulated. If bright is a thing, he has the advantage early of being born […]
Anne Smerdon
Anne Smerdon is an Australian artist documenting the symbiotic relationship between humans and animals, particularly birds and horses. Facebeak are her pet birds Vonnegut and Schiele. Anne has an extensive knowledge of body language and psychology in birds and horses. She uses this to work with live birds to create each of her artworks. She may […]
Michael Davis
Michael Davis: Michael Davis’s most recent series of works blend together the realms of abstraction and landscape. For his larger works, bold colours flow across the canvas, making visible the figures of trees and the contours of river banks before slipping seamlessly back into abstraction.We are invited into an image of a landscape, yet not […]
Mathew Lynn
Mathew Lynn lives and works between Sydney and the Blue Mountains, Australia. For over twenty years he has been one of Australia’s best known and successful portrait artists. Whilst this continues, his practice focuses primarily on contemporary figurative and landscape painting. His first exhibition Coogee Is Everywhere (August 2019) followed by The Silver Expanse (August […]