Tag: Australia

  • You beaut country

    In his foreword to the exhibition, Julian Agnew extolls the virtues of Australian culture:

  • Ken Done – Opera house and bridge

    To Sydneysiders and visitors alike the man-made structures of the Harbour Bridge and the Opera House have become icons with which the city is readily identified. The technology of the Harbour Bridge was recognised by artists in the 1920s as…

  • Ken Done – beaches and boats

    The view from his studio of Chinaman’s Beach long sustained Ken Done’s artistic inquiry throughout the 1980s and today he continually finds himself returning to it as a special source of inspiration. As if echoing the suffuse patterns of nature,…

  • Ken Done – The Cabin

    The Cabin studio at Mosman, overlooking Chinaman’s Beach on Middle Harbour, was acquired by Ken Done in 1979. It has been the single most important factor in the development of Ken Done’s painting in the 1980s. When Ken Done returned…

  • Ken Done’s Sydney

    Ken Done’s earliest recollections of Sydney Harbour were as a young child during the war. In the early 1940s, before the end of the war precipitated the family’s move to Maclean on the Clarence River on the north coast of…