Anna Fitzpatrick
Anna Fitzpatrick is known for the compositional rhythms, bold coloration, and sweeping gestural brushstrokes of her large and often multi-paneled paintings. Inspired by landscape and nature, there is a visceral quality to her artwork and her paintings resonate with energy. Influenced by the gestural painting of abstract expressionism, Anna’s abstract artwork comprises a highly spontaneous, richly […]
Craig Parnaby
Craig Parnaby creates a unique visual iconography of coastal living. His imagery pays homage to the architectural forms and easy-going lifestyle of the urban coastal landscape. Craig’s perspective is positive, youthful and essentially humanist in its celebration of life’s simple pleasures. Parnaby’s figurative works are developing as sculptural studies of the human form. The poses, […]
Lauren Esplin
Acclaimed painter Lauren Esplin says she feels most herself with her feet sunk deeply into the sand, cool sea on her skin, and taste of salt on her lips. This evocative description lends itself to the stunning works she creates, the viewer instantly transported to the distinct beauty and raw-edged power of the coastline and […]
Kathrin Longhurst
Kathrin Longhurst is a fearless storyteller and an uncompromising voice in contemporary art. Born during the Cold War in East Berlin, her early years were shaped by the rigid ideals of a totalitarian regime. At 15, she escaped to the West, a seismic shift that ignited her passion for freedom, self-expression, and the reclamation of identity. […]
Goompi Ugerabah
Goompi has traced his Aboriginal lineage as far back as possible to Pialba in Queensland. Upon European contact and settlement, his 2 female ancestors who were coincidentally gathered from the same region and placed on the Pialba mission. Knowledge of the specific tribes both women came from in that area is not yet verified. Both […]
Mel Brigg
Mel Brigg was born in 1950 in South Africa and lives in Australia. As a self-taught artist, he began to paint full time in the ’70s and has established himself as one of Australia’s leading contemporary artists. He is known for his support of institutions such as Child Welfare, Wildlife Trust, Save the Rhino Foundation, […]
Anita West
Anita West is an Australian Landscape, Sea Scape artists who’s artwork have been purchased by Parliament House for their permanent collection from Gallery One in 2019. Anita states about her artworks:“Glimpsing an ancient landscape through the Eucalypts breathing in the quiet. Feeling the Australian Bush opening pages of my memory. Looking through the windows of my […]
Richard Dunlop
Richard Dunlop has had a distinguished professional practice for almost four decades, and according to Curator Eric Nash has been instrumental for that duration for the resurgence of interest in, and making a highly original contribution to painting in Australia. Richard’s work is in the collections of several universities (QUT, UCQ, UTAS, Griffith), many regional […]
Peter Watts
Peter Watts is a distinguished Australian landscape artist, widely recognised for his evocative depictions of Southern Australia’s skies and rural terrain. A four-time finalist in the prestigious Glover Prize in Tasmania, he was awarded the People’s Choice Award in 2022 and the Hangers Prize in 2026, affirming both public and critical appreciation of his work. […]
Christopher McVinish
Contemporary realist painter Christopher McVinish is a master of light. It is essentially this element of his work, which invites us to see the commonplace as special and suffused with potential. While McVinish’s urban landscapes tell intriguingly oblique narratives revealing contemporary life as a kind of half-remembered dream, his still life paintings convey a reverence […]