Ian Fairweather: A Life in Letters Publisher / Hardie GrantWhen he died in 1974 after a long period of self imposed austerity and improvisation on Bribie Island, Queensland, Ian Fairweather was at the apex of his fame. He had been called our greatest painter, and his works were keenly sought by galleries, collectors and artists. Born in 1891 in Scotland, Fairweather had lived a peripatetic life, forever seeking the right place to settle. He was a prodigious and idiosyncratic letter writerwryly documenting for
or anyone who wears many hats in their business
Against pink skies kookaburra calls …
The plates are in chronological order and followed by detailed captions
'We can make another future' profiles several overlapping themes for this fascinating period in Japanese
Piccinini creates an imaginative world peopled with families of charming and slightly unsettling beings
in which father and daughter shared a lifetime of thoughts about art and life
These showcase hundreds of spectacular clothes
the name also reflects the snake-like meandering of water across a landscape and the color spectrum sometimes caused by sunlight hitting the water
but not your hand - he's just a ceramic head after all
and making the vivid liquid run with energy and rhythm
explored abstraction
Koolmatrie's elegant woven forms are created using the labour-intensive process of hand-harvested native river sedge from the banks of the Murray River