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Jirrawun: A unique model

'You need great artists - and management', says William Mora, Director of William Mora Galleries in Melbourne, when assessing what, in his wide experience, produces great Aboriginal art. This is undoubtedly not the answer that art lovers familiar only with...

Geoff Kleem: the dream world of images

A curious twilight zone has haunted Geoff Kleem's images since the early 1980s, though perhaps not as explicitly as in his recent photographic series, 'Lost and Found', 2004-05. These panoramic views of wooded landscapes seem shrouded in neither light nor...

Dorrit Black's Modern Art Centre

Late in 1929, following two years of study in London and Paris, the Adelaide-born artist Dorrit Black returned to Sydney and began searching for premises in which to establish a studio and gallery for the display of modern art. She brought back from Europe a...

The WR Burge Collection

On 6 March 2006 Christie's Australia held an auction of an art collection put together over almost three decades by Sydney solicitor William Burge and his wife Ann. The collection, and the 1960s modernist residence in Centennial Park in which it was housed...

Michelle Ussher

The drawings and paintings of Michelle Ussher have frequently depicted the bush or aspects of the natural environment. But while they, on the one hand, continue the long Australian artistic practice of representing the landscape, they are at the same time...