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1968

by Allen, Joyce L. McC, Hickey, Dale, Hunter, Robert, Jacks, Robert, Johnson, Michael, Lanceley, Colin, Larter, Richard, Leach-Jones, Alun, Lendon, Nigel, Ramsden, Mel, Rooney, Robert, Sharp, Martin, Stacey, Wes, Strizic, Mark, Talbot, Henry, Worth, Margaret.

1968 was an exhibition of works from the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Australia, curated by Michael Desmond and Christine Dixon. As the ...

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Aspden, David, b. 1935
The largely self-taught painter, David Aspden, established his reputation in the 1960s by painting lyrically beautiful abstracts. In the context of the time, they were ...
The Field

by Coleing, Anthony John, Hickey, Dale, McGillick, Tony, Partos, Paul.

The Field was the first temporary exhibition in the newly opened National Gallery of Victoria building in St Kilda Road. Its curators, John Stringer and ...

Hickey, Dale, b. 1937
Melbourne artist whose paintings show an awareness of minimalism, colour field and realism.
Barlow, John, b. 1860
An authority on ecclesiastical architecture, Barlow was the editor of "Art and Architecture", co-founder of the Institute of Architects, NSW and author of a number ...
Jordan, Col, b. 1935
One of the innovators in hard edge optical painting, who was also an influential teacher of generations of artists.
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Krouzecky, Claire, b. 1986
Claire Krouzecky, painter, is a Perth-born artist who moved to Tasmania to study in 2010. She is a member of Inter Collective, a collaborative arts ...
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Leach-Jones, Alun, b. 1937
Alun Leach-Jones was one of the generation of artists who helped define Australian colourfield art in the 1960s. Hie first came to prominence exhibiting in ...
Dumbrell, Lesley, b. 1941
Throughout her sustained career Lesley Dumbrell’s painting has been characterised by precise, geometric abstraction. In 1974, at a time when women artists found it difficult ...
Magenta

by Loveday, Tom, Roberts, Margaret, West, Hayley.

*MAGENTA* was an exhibition curated by Beata Geyer. The grouping of artists with very diverse art practices and approaches to art production explores the notion ...

McMaugh, Alison, b. 1928
Alison McMaugh was one of the many young women artists trained in Sydney in the 1950s who found more opportunities abroad, in her case in ...
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Johnson, Michael, b. 1938
Michael Johnson's work is marked by a metaphysical orchestration of colour and a muscularity of presence. His paintings (and occasional works in three dimensions) are ...
Oldfield, Alan, b. 1943
Alan Oldfield’s early work was characterised by crisp clean abstract paintings which combined a hedonist sensibility with the austerity of hard edge abstraction. His later ...
Rambles at the antipodes

by Gill, Samuel.

London: W.H. Smith and Son, v, 219 p., [14] leaves of plates (2 folded): col. ill., 2 col. maps; 18 cm.

Works on paper

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Rooney, Robert, b. 1937
In the 1960s Melbourne artist became well known for his lively hard edge abstract paintings which were based on images discovered on cereal packets. Later ...
Shades of Light: Lesley Dumbrell

by Dumbrell, Lesley.

Scholarly survey exhibition of Dumbrell’s oeuvre

Shirley, Eric, b. 1919
Eric Shirley was an advertising art director who was involved with the Central Street artists and also exhibited in The Field, 1968.
Robertson-Swann, Ron, b. 1941
Ball, Sydney, b. 1933
Sydney Ball was one of the first of his generation to look to New York instead of Europe for inspiration. He consistently painted large abstract ...
Ball, Sydney, b. 1933
The Adelaide born Sydney Ball was a painter of pure colour and abstract form, and one of the first of the post-World War II artists ...