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unusual facts about Australian art



Ivor Hele

He was the longest serving war artist for the Australian War Memorial and completed more commissioned works than any other Australian artist in the history of Australian art.


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Christine Morrow

Her art work has been exhibited in the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art in 1998 and the Moët & Chandon touring exhibition in 1999.

Gil Jamieson

These friendships sustained and affirmed his contribution to Australian art as later in his career, fellow artists such as Cliff Pugh and Arthur Boyd supported his work.

John Symond

He has a substantial collection of Australian art deco and contemporary art including works of Brett Whiteley and Sidney Nolan.

Karaikudi Mani

The Australian Art Orchestra has adapted his Bahudari and Ranjani compositions into Jazz style and released it as "Into The Fire".

National New Media Art Award

The Premier of Queensland's National New Media Art Award is a biennial, invitational Australian art award for works of new media art, instituted in 2008 under the auspices of the Queensland Government and the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art at the Queensland Art Gallery.

Piers Maxwell Dudley-Bateman

An invitation to participate in a survey exhibition of Australian Art at the Cremorne Gallery Sydney and a painting acquired by the Caterpillar Foundation in Chicago further helped his growing recognition as an emerging landscape painter.

Russell Drysdale

Australian art scholar and gallery director Ron Radford argues that towards the end of World War II, Drysdale triggered "'a general reddening' of Australian landscape art".

Ukrainian Artists Society of Australia

Reproductions of his works appeared, not only in books on contemporary Australian art, but also on the covers of The Bulletin and the popular Australian historical monthly Parade, and in the Australian Women's Weekly.

William Hardy Wilson

In 1923 his work was hung in the Exhibition of Australian Art at Burlington House, London.