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It was early in 1989 when I decided to head down to the South Coast, taking the Princes Highway from Sydney to Shoalhaven, to visit the painter Gary Willis, who at the time was living in the Singleman’s Hut at Bundanon.

In July 1983, Arthur Boyd received the kind of commission that artists both dream about and dread: to create two large paintings and a suite of smaller works for the new Arts Centre Melbourne.

This summer Heide Museum of Modern Art presents the first major survey in Australia of the celebrated British artist Dame Barbara Hepworth DBE (1903–1

Works by Arthur Streeton, Sidney Nolan, and Rosalie Gascoigne, from the Cbus Collection of Important Australian Art will go under the hammer this month.

There's scarcely any wall space left inside Paul Guest's home.

The spectacular sweeping views from Sydney’s Lavender Bay have inspired generations of artists but none more influential than the bohemian community drawn to the bay during the 70s and 80s.

A new generation occupied the glittering silver foil walls of the exhibitions space in the new National Gallery of Victoria on St Kilda Road. Most of the Field artists attended the opening and very few of the older generation.

Robert Jacks (1943–2014) was the cool cat of Australian art. His works, like his personality, are charming, adroit, cheeky and winsome. A large retrospective

If colours apparently reflect our moods, then Robert Hunter’s art is enticingly mysterious. A large white work by Hunter can still draw the eye

Robert Jacks's assessment of the act of making art is unequivocal, if not blunt. ''Painting,'' he says, ''is not about bullshit.''