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Breaking the News is an 1887 painting by Australian artist John Longstaff. It shows the interior of a miner's cottage on the Victorian goldfields with an old man breaking the news to a woman of her husband's death in a mining accident. The woman holds an infant in her arms, and two other miners appear in the doorway, carrying the body of the ...
The oldest firmly dated evidence of rock art painting in Australia is a charcoal drawing on a small rock fragment found during the excavation of the Narwala Gabarnmang rock shelter in south-western Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. Dated at 28,000 years, it is one of the oldest known pieces of rock art on Earth with a confirmed date. [8]
Garry Andrews (born 1957): painter, printmaker and art teacher; Gordon Andrews (1914–2001): industrial and graphic designer; designed Australia's first decimal banknotes; George French Angas (1822–1886): painter; James Angus (born 1970): sculptor; Giulio Anivitti (1850–1881): artist, art teacher, portrait painter and gallery curator
John Glover's work features in many prominent art galleries throughout Australia (and the world). His work has been the subject of numerous exhibitions [21] and a symposium in Australia. [22] From 2004, The John Glover Society has awarded the Glover Prize for depictions of Tasmanian landscapes. It is the richest art prize in Australia for ...
Albert Namatjira painting in Alice Springs (Mparntwe), c.1957. Albert Namatjira (pronounced; born Elea Namatjira; 28 July 1902 – 8 August 1959) was an Arrernte painter from the MacDonnell Ranges in Central Australia, widely considered one of the most notable Australian artists.
According to Walsh, Gwion Gwion art was associated with a period he called the Erudite Epoch, a time before Aboriginal people populated Australia. He suggested that the art may be the product of an ethnic group who had likely arrived in Australia from Indonesia, only to be displaced by the ancestors of present-day Aboriginal people. Walsh based ...
Australia's Oldest Man Famous For His Penguin Sweaters Passes Away Alfie Date, who became an internet sensation after knitting sweaters for penguins in need, passed away at age 110 on Monday.
Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri AO (1932 – 21 June 2002) was an Australian painter, considered to be one of the most collected and renowned Australian Aboriginal artists.His paintings are held in galleries and collections in Australia and elsewhere, including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the National Gallery of Australia, the Kelton Foundation and the Royal Collection.