Rachel Carmichael was born in Oxford in the United Kingdom in 1955. In 1960 when she was five years old she arrived in Australia, where her father had accepted an academic appointment at Sydney University. The family moved to the … Read more
Robert David Pope was born in Bendigo, Victoria in 1939. He is a Landscape and abstract painter in oil, acrylic, pen and ink. Pope worked for ten years in the Australian outback as an oil and mineral surveyor and a … Read more
The story of Albert Namatjira is one of both triumph and tragedy. Albert has often been referred to as “a wanderer between two worlds”. The unique situation he found himself in, with his artistic talent providing the bridge to cross … Read more
Hugh Ramsay was born in Glasgow, Scotland on 25 May, 1877. He relocated to Melbourne in Australia with his family the following year in 1878. Ramsay’s father, a pastor and a tradesman, moved to Australia in search of a better … Read more
Ida Rentoul Outhwaite (1888-1960) is one of Australia’s most famous and beloved artists. She rose to fame in the early 1900’s as an illustrator of children’s books, working in watercolour and pen and ink. Her beautiful and exquisitely delicate artworks, … Read more
Born in Bognor Regis, in Sussex, England on 7 February 1912, Russell Drysdale arrived in Australia as a child and went on to become one of Australia’s most famous and influential artists. He died in New South Wales on 29 … Read more
Albert Sherman was born in Truro, Cornwall, England in 1882. In his youth he displayed a love for colour and design by painting the coats of arms on the carriages made in the old coach building works of his father. … Read more
Born in Lismore, New South Wales on 22 June in 1923, Margaret Olley was an Expressionist painter in oil, watercolour, pen and wash and her subjects were mostly landscape, interiors and still-life. Margaret Olley was the eldest of three children … Read more
Bob Marchant was born in 1938 in Dimboola, in the Wimmera district in Victoria. His experiences from his early years growing up in this farming community are often reflected in the subjects of his paintings which are mainly figurative works … Read more
