Artists who explore Place
Brett Whiteley
Vincent van Gogh
William Robinson
John Olsen
Tim Storrier
Brett Whiteley is one of Australia's most celebrated artists. He won the Art Gallery of NSW Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes several times, and his artistic career was bolstered by his celebrity status in Australia and overseas.
William Robinson has reached the greatest heights available to an Australian artist and is the only living Australian artist with a gallery dedicated to his work, the William Robinson Gallery at Old Government House in Brisbane. Robinson works across subjects from epic landscape paintings to characterful portraits and, increasingly in recent years where age restricts his ability to be in the landscape, still-life. In his 82nd year, he remains committed to taking his paintings into new territory.
John Olsen is one of Australia's most celebrated artists, with a career spanning more than seven decades. Primarily a painter, he has also worked in ceramics, tapestry and printmaking. His energetic and distinctive style is defined by experimentation with line, colour and figuration.
He painted almost 900 paintings in 10 years, van Gogh's staples were coffee, cigarettes and bread, The truth behind van Gogh's ear is still unknown, Starry Night was created in an asylum, van Gogh was a pioneer of the post-impressionistic selfie.
Tim Storrier is a contemporary Australian painter known for his surreal depictions fires in the Australian Outback. He was the winner of the 2012 Archibald Prize, for his self-portrait, The Histrionic Wayfarer after Bosch 2012. Time and the event won't happen again, he said esoterically
