#south australian artist

[magpiesprings]

(via "Sunrise on Bennys Hill by Adelaide artist Avril Thomas at Magpie Springs" Relaxed Fit T-Shirt for Sale by MagpieSprings)

[huariqueje]

Wylie's baths, New South Wales - Alasdair Lindsay 

British , b, 1975 -

Acrylic on canvas , 80 x 80 cm.

[portrait-paintings]

Self-Portrait

Artist: Normand Baker (Australian, 1908-1955)

Date: 1937

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Description

Normand H. Baker, at twenty-nine years old, was the youngest artist to win the Archibald Prize in 1937 and, although relatively unknown, the Gallery had already purchased two of his earlier works. Coverage in the daily papers centred on the fact that Baker was the son of a confectioner and worked as a commercial artist. The winning painting was donated to the Gallery by the artist's mother, Millicent Pearl Baker in 1956.

[speedilydeepruins]

Lake Bonney (the Riverland) SA, never disappoints

[sillystringsimpsons]

BLAHAJTRIP [2022]

1:1, phone camera, in order: Corrigin, Wave Rock, Border Village, Iron Knob, Great Australian Bight, Port Augusta, Streaky Bay, Adelaide

BLAHAJTRIP is an eight-photo set of images taken while travelling through Southwestern Australia for two weeks by car. The stuffed shark plays a symbolic role, representing the transitional nature of travel, as well as the liminal stage of the photographer's life, drawing parallels between the two. All images, except the last, anthropomorphise the shark by virtue of its isolation within the frame. All eight photos appear in chronological order of the timeline of travel, and showcase the journey away from the photographer's current place of residence to his second childhood home.

Interactions are extremely appreciated.

[majormisunderstanding]

Keswick Siding, 1945, by Jeffrey Smart. Oil on jute on canvas.

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.

[moreofmealways444]

listen!!!

[flipflopitstimetomakeart]

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is this something people ship? idk,,, i just wanted to draw them LOL

(also this took me a really long time because i kept putting off rendering their clothes 😭)

[the-cricket-chirps]

N.S.W. orchid

circa 1935

Margaret Preston

[thewondermentofillustration]

Sir Arthur Ernest Streeton (1867–1943) - The Railway Station, Redfern, New South Wales, Australia, 1893, oil on canvas

[magpiesprings]

An interview by Art in Adelaide at Magpie Springs with Adelaide Artist Avril Thomas talking about the Art in Magpie Springs Art Gallery. Magpie Springs is a vineyard in South Australia with Boutique wine - Cellar Door. Original Art - Art Gallery. Exhibition:- Oil paintings:- Landscapes and portraiture. Prints discussed on Redbubble/MagpieSprings and AvrilThomasart

[huariqueje]

Lower Front Paddock in the Dry   -   Lucy Culliton , 2022.

Australian, b. 1966  -

Oil on canvas ,  137 x 137 cm.

[portrait-paintings]

Self-Portrait

Artist: Margaret Preston (Australian, 1875-1963

Date: 1930

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Description

Margaret Preston painted this portrait in 1930 at the request of the Trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. She confessed she was thrilled to receive the commission to paint what was, for her, an untested subject. As she later pointed out, '… my self-portrait is completed, but I am a flower painter – I am not a flower'. In a work as carefully designed and as uncompromising as the artist's still-lifes, Preston identifies and separates the essentials of her art: her brush and palette and a pot of wildflowers, a favourite subject, on the sill behind her.

[speedilydeepruins]

Gone but not forgotten, Garden Island Ship Graveyard, SA

The weather was calm and bright. Also was feeling a little bored. Thought that I would get out and try to get to know my little drone.

[queerasfact]

Invasion Day

On January 26 1788, the First Fleet of convicts from Britain arrived on the lands of the Eora Nation and the establishment of a British colony in Australia began.

Although the day is now official observed as Australia Day, it is, to quote Victorian community organisers, “an annual reminder of invasion, occupation, genocide and the ongoing impacts of colonisation that continue to destroy our land and waters”.

Keep reading under the cut - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be aware that below is an image and names of deceased persons.

First Nations people have publicly marked 26 January as a Day of Mourning since 1938. The photo above comes from 1988, when, on 26 January, Australia officially celebrated its bicentenary. In response to public celebrations of the day, gay Aboriginal and South Sea Islander man Malcolm Cole and artist Panos Couros came up their own way to mark the occasion – a float in Sydney’s Mardi Gras parade a month later.

The float, known as the “Aboriginal Boat”, took the form of a sailing ship manned by Malcolm, dressed as Captain Cook, the British man who “claimed” the lands of First Nations people along Australia’s east coast for Britain. Narungga and Kaurna man Rodney Junga-Williams played botanist Joseph Banks, who was also instrumental in the decision to colonise the continent. The float was pulled by their white friends.

As Australians ourselves, living on the stolen lands of the Kulin Nation, we encourage you to spend the day doing what you can to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. BlaQ Aboriginal Corporation is one organisation working to support queer First Nations people, that you in turn can support.

[Image source: Photograph taken by Ken Lovett, Australian Queer Archives, via ABC]

[majormisunderstanding]

The Olive Plantation, 1946 Oil on Canvas, by Dorrit Black.

Art Gallery of South Australia.