Antipodeans: Australian Art

Celebration of all types of Australian art: painting, sculpture, design, performance, street art, and so on. Labour of love by Zuleyka Zevallos. Submissions welcome.
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“Understanding Country” by Paniny Mick

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Gordon Bennett. 1993. Untitled (Dismay, display, disperse, dispirit, display, dismiss).

Source: Museum of Contemporary Art.

Vitor dos Santos. Untitled I.

Mixed media on canvas on board. 100 x 70 cm.

Source: Anthea Polson Art.

Rene Sinkjaer. Sattelite of Love.

Source: Rene Sinkjaer.

Brett Whiteley, 1976,  Interior With Time Past.

Painting, oil, charcoal and ink on canvas.

Source: National Gallery of Australia.

Rene Sinkjaer. P1180308.

Source: Rene Sinkjaer.

George Edwards Peacock (b. England 1806, arrived Sydney 1837, d. 1890). View North from Craigend Looking Over Woolloomooloo and Port Jackson, 1845.

Oil painting.

Via: State Library of NSW.

Captain John Hunter (1737-1821.) Laughing Kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae) (1788-1790)

Watercolour. 22.6 x 18.3 cm.

Part of Birds & flowers of New South Wales drawn on the spot in 1788, ‘89 & ‘90 [picture] 1788-1790.

Via: Digital Collections -National Gallery of Australia.

Aby Altson. The Golden Age. 1893.

Oil on canvas.

Source: National Galley of Victoria.

Jeffrey Smart. Cahill Expressway. 1962.

Oil on plywood.

Via: National Gallery of Victoria.

Francis Lymburner (1916-1972). Girl with Lute, 1950.

Oil on canvas on composition board. 41.0 x 51.0 cm.

Source: Menzies.

Emily Kame Kngwarreye. Emu Woman 1988–89.

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 92.0 x 61.0cm.

Samuel Thomas Gill, c.1887, Deep Sinking Bakery, Ballarat- 1853.

This illustration portrays the process of “deep lead mining in Ballarat… The windsails were used to ventilate the shafts.” 

Photo National Library of Australia. Via: National Museum of Australia.

David Zampatti, Story Time.

Acrylic on canvas.

Via: Gallery 360.

Gordon Bennett. 2001. Notes to Basquiat (Jackson Pollock and his other).

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas. 152.0 x 304.0 cm.

Via: National Gallery of Victoria.