But all is not roses and light in this exhibition with regard to exclusion. Gift of Lesley Saddington 2015 Gelatin silver photograph Frame: 74.5 x 99.0cm 5/nm This is a protected document. Commissioned with funds provided by Marilyn Darling AC 2004 Photos: Tom Ross. 'About half-way through my beloved mother . 1972) 2000 Sheet: 111.2 x 80cm Synthetic polymer paint on canvas National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Photo: Dr Marcus Bunyan and National Gallery of Victoria, Del Kathryn Barton(Australian, b. Simon Obarzanek. Anne Zahalka/Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia Josephine Muntz Adams (Australian, 1862-1950) National Portrait Gallery, Canberra Photo: Marcus Bunyan. Barton sees female rage against the silencing of women as an important generative force. Ideas of intimacy and alienation are juxtaposed through images of family and community presented alongside those of vulnerability and isolation. Fanny Jane Marlay Photo: Marcus Bunyan, Brook Andrew (Australian, b. We acknowledge the Gadigal of the Eora Nation, the traditional custodians of the Country on which the Art Gallery of NSW stands. Julie Rrap dissects and subverts conventional visions of women in art history, so often depicted as the Madonna. In its uniting of artist and sitter, the self-portrait is an intriguing facet of portraiture. 1968, United States 1995-2001) 7/nm Acacius (Stigmata) Tony Carden Mrs Woods and Ere By drawing on the significant women in her life, their relationships and histories, Purdie describes herself through these cultural connections and stories. When she speaks of her late mother, Karen, she apologises for looking behind me in the studio, like theres a ghost or something. 1950) Oil on canvas [But] we live in an overly anaesthetised society that teaches people to fear pain, to fear chaos and the trauma body fuck, lifes hard man; lifes confusing [rather than] sit in uncomfortable places and remain calm and find magic there.. Like Bourgeois, she presents strange couplings of the animal and the human, that despite their de-formations always convey intimacy and warmth. Thus, we minimize diversity by reflecting on who we are, by achieving, that is, a self-conscious state that is not only accepted but considered desirable4. Charles Dennington (Australian, b. But if you look beyond thepsychedelic aesthetic and decorative surfaces its just a conjuring trick, ritual representation as pseudo-spiritual experience. 9 parts, each 42 45cm Self Portrait (non-objective composition) (yellow cross) A typical way for the artist to portray themselves is in the role of the artist, including in the work a visual clue to their profession for instance holding a brush or paint palette or showing themselves at work in the studio. Barton is married to a pathological, full-blown nerdy introvert, a financial services executive she credits with helping her to understand herself. Required fields are marked *, (function( timeout ) { National Portrait Gallery, Canberra Steele was a famous painter from Owen County his parents were Samuel and Harriet Steele. In 1961, he founded Lewis Morley Studios in Peter Cooks London club, The Establishment. Gift of the artist 2000 He returned to England in the early 1840s, and lived there for the rest of his life, although he revisited America in 1869 and 1867. Femme Maison Julie Dowlings Federation series: 1901-2001 is a series of history paintings produced in response to the Centenary of Federation. Rona Panangka Rubuntja/Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia. Tiffany Ruby Patterson, Zora Neale Hurston and a History of Southern Life 2000 Growing up on the remote island of Gallwinku (Elcho Island), Gurrumul was taught all Yolngu culture in song, dance, art and ceremony. If you would like to unsubscribe from the email list please email me at bunyanth@netspace.net.au and I will remove you asap. Her method and style resemble Foshan papercutting, which is widely practices in the home of her maternal grandparents, in Guangdong province. Estate of Evelyn Chapman 2012 The resulting retrospective exhibition in Sydney in 1985 drew critical acclaim and has since assured her reputation. Purchased, 1950 When Moffatt photographed him in 1985, Yolngu man David Gulpilil AM (1953-2021) had already appeared in several major film and television productions, including Walkabout (1971), Storm Boy (1976), The Last Wave (1977) and The Timeless Land (1980). Aided by an effective bush telegraph system, the brothers evaded capture until April 1867, when they were tracked to a hideout near Araluen, apprehended, and taken to Braidwood Gaol. Presented across five thematic sections, the exhibition raises challenging and provocative questions about who we are and how we view others historically, today and into the future. House guest #2 Photo: Marcus Bunyan, James E. Bray (Australia, 1832-1891) Gift of Vince Sinni in memory of Trevor Turbo Brown through the Australian Governments Cultural Gifts Program, 2018 Atong Atem, courtesy Mars Gallery, Melbourne, The Studio series has developed into an exploration of my blackness and my identity and culture through African cultural iconography, black visual languages, and diasporic traditions represented in the act of posing for a photograph. Gift of Pamela Thalben-Ball 2007 Yvonne Pettengell Bequest, 2014 Having a career one like his, is great to be apart of some great films such as Lord of The Rings and opportunities like acting with Russell Crowe. Bourgeois created her spider sculptures partly in tribute to her mother, saying: Like a spider, my mother was a weaver. Educated in Sydney, from 1961 he worked at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children (which became the New Childrens Hospital, Westmead), becoming Head of Medicine and serving as its Chief Executive for 19 years before retiring in 1997. National Portrait Gallery, Canberra Presented through The Art Foundation of Victoria by John and Jan Altmann, Founder Benefactors, 1986, Michael Riley (Australian / Wiradjuri/Kamilaroi, 1960-2004) Her mother, Sarah, managed the household and taught Barton the importance of cleanliness. 1975) portrait of Gary Foley is from a series featuring people of colour as outlaws of their post-apocalypse, drawn as if posters for fictional movies. Jason Smith, Curator, Director and CEO of Heide quoted by Annemarie Kiely on the Vogue Living Blog [Online] Cited 28/02/2013 no longer available online. ablest c. 1928-1932 1968, United States 1995-2001) Portrait group Im black (Nicky Winmar), covered vase National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Photo: Dr Marcus Bunyan and National Gallery of Victoria, Louise Bourgeois(French-American, 1911-2010) 1936 In these moments there is an opening-up within the body, the mind, within all the senses I felt nothing of that when looking at these works no connection to an inner self or the vast ocean of the collective-consciousness. Firstly, I thought the drawings by Louise Bourgeois in Heide II were the most magical thing that I saw all day; they seemed to be the well spring of her creativity, the initial thought sketched quickly and imperiously. The Australian artist's. 1891 Wojak has been an Archibald finalist twice, a Portia Geach finalist several times and a Sculpture by the Sea finalist four times; they won the Blake Prize for religious art in 2004. For her, sewing was an act of healing or reparation, linked to memories of her mother who would sit out in the sun and repair a tapestry or a petit point, an image of calm amid more distressing family dynamics. Ah Xian came to Australia from Beijing in 1989, having already gained some recognition and experience as an artist here. Purchased through The Art Foundation of Victoria with the assistance of Chase Manhattan Overseas Corporation, Fellow, 1991 In this image, Maynard documents cultural leader and activist Gladys Tybingoompa, who is remembered today as a prolific figure in the Wik vs Queensland Case and a trailblazer for Indigenous land rights across Australia. Uta Uta Tjangala forged a new art form at Papunya during 1971-1972 with startling works such as this one. Guido Maestris portrait of the musician was created after the artist saw Gurrumul perform in Sydney on New Years Eve 2008. Image: 5.7 4.6cm 152.8 x 102.2cm Enamel paint on fibreglass, leather, plastic, metal, rubber, mirror, transparent synthetic polymer resin, glass Felton Bequest, 1936 Oil on canvas The subject of the mother and child has its origins in the depiction of the biblical Madonna and Child, and continued to be a popular subject for nineteenth-century artists recoding their personal and secular experiences with tenderness and conviction. An intimate depiction of motherhood, The young mother shows Topsy tenderly waving a palm fan over the outstretched arms of her son, Ralph, who was born in 1890. As the critic John McDonald noted recently, we are living at a time when museums and commercial galleries have gone completely gaga for such [that is, Aboriginal] work.. Excerpts taken from: A Framework for Marketing Management, by Philip Kotler Copyright 2001by Prentice-Hall, Inc. A Pearson Education Company Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 Marketing Management Millenium Edition, Tenth Edition, by Philip Kotler Copyright 2000 by Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. That is the truly important aspect of any navel gazing exercise. [Rage is] when Ive managed to do the cognitive work, identify more whats happening in the emotional self and through feeling it and expressing it on one level, Im releasing it, so that it doesnt cripple me., She sees it as a collective energy too, with vast potential: If its out in the open, and acknowledged as being a valid emotion, then I just think a lot of healing can happen at that point.. Dupain continued to operate his studio on Sydneys Lower North Shore until he died at the age of 81. Anna Josepha King Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne National Gallery Society of Victoria Century Fund, 1984 Federation Square Centre for Adult Education & Box Hill Institute The works burrs jagged edges where the needle has ripped through the metal record the violence of the printing process. Support: 121.5 x 103.0cm It was here that he got his nickname. Although she does a lot of figurative work, much of it self-referential, she doesnt do a great deal of portraiture though she was represented in last years Archibald Prize with a painting of art dealer Vasili Kaliman. Mount: 10.1 cm x 6.2cm Time and again I, too, have felt so full of luminous torrents that I could burst., HLNE CIXOUS, THE LAUGH OF THE MEDUSA (1975). 76.4 x 92.5cm If you would like to unsubscribe from the email list please email me at bunyanth@netspace.net.au and I will remove you asap. My story is told against a backdrop of the times. Gelatin silver photograph Dr John Yu (b. 2016 She won her first Archibald prize in 2008 for her self-portrait with her two children and then again in 2013 for her portrait of Australian actor Hugo Weaving. Del Kathryn Barton: The Highway is a Disco is one of five solo exhibitions by leading Australian artists for NGV Australia's 2017-18 summer program. (a-p) 56.0 x 38.0cm (each) abbreviated/UA Van Gosse and Richard Moser, eds., The World the Sixties Made: Migrants arriving in Sydney (10) 60.4 50.5cm (Julie 1990-2001) For vibrant trembling life, given wholeheartedly, is the true meaning of this immersive painting. Earthenware There, he was enabled to execute Every Variety of Photographic Portraiture, including Cartes de Viste, Tinted or Fully Colored in Water Colors. The friend (the spider why the spider?) Possum pelts Del Kathryn Barton With Clover Moore, then the Member for Bligh in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, he helped raise $1 million for the refurbishment of St Vincents Hospitals Ward 17 South, Australias first dedicated ward for HIV/AIDS patients. [Her] influence on young artists has been enormous., . Stating early in his career that the bottom line of my work is coming to terms with my Aboriginality, he continued to engage with questions of cultural and personal identity, interrogating Australias colonial past and postcolonial present through a succession of allusive postmodern works. Abidjan/M He began casting porcelain busts and painting them with traditional Chinese designs in 1997; an artist-in-residency followed, he sold a bust to Sydneys Powerhouse Museum, and he held his first solo show in Melbourne in 2000. Gift of Lesley Saddington 2015 Susan Porter Benson, Stephen Brier, and Roy Rosenzweig aberrational CALIFORNIA: AN INTERPRETIVE HISTORY, TENTH EDITION Published by McGraw-Hill, a business unit of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020. Kara Walker will become the leading voice for race and racism that will launch her popularity in the art world. Oil on cardboard The artist herself, however, seems calm. 1961) Veronica Martin, Max Martin (Australian, 1889-1965) As Yu noted: A lot of Chinese sculptures have young children climbing all over the subject. This is her fifth time as a finalist. 1942) The beauty of the past for Bourgeois resided in the nurturing, repairing, fortifying and protective tendencies of her mother, which she aligned with the processes of stitching and assembling. Artwork- Students will analysis Barton's visual language, form, and composition. Purchased, Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists, 2006 abbess/SM Peggy Photos: Marcus Bunyan, Im interested in people and their stories, and how someone from today is connected with the past. Stills from RED Del Kathryn Barton has been a very successful artist. 1960) Papapetrou proposes that this is a significant moment for many young men as they seek to separate themselves from their mothers, and assume the costumes and identities of masculine stereotypes, often hiding themselves in the process. Gift of Jessie Traill, 1961 Photo: Marcus Bunyan, Brenda L. Croft (Anglo-Australian / Gurindji/Malngin/Mudburra, b. Shirley Purdie is senior Gija woman and a prominent leader within the Warmup Community in Western Australias East Kimberley. In the late 1940s he trained at the National Art School; he travelled and studied overseas through the first half of the 1950s. Ngambri woman, Dr Matilda House, is an activist who has dedicated her life to the pursuit of social justice and equity for First Nations peoples since the 1960s. (8) 60.3 50.4cm (Ronnie 1970-1980) The legend of the artworks on the wall is below Acrylic on French linen. Donated through the Australian Governments Cultural Gifts Program Etching, ink, watercolour, pencil and gouache on paper, Installation view of Del Kathryn Barton: The Highway is a Disco at the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, 17 November 2017 12 March 2018 featuring thevolcanic women series 2016- Her psychedelic environments are created using sequins, markers, gouache, and glitter. LISTING OF ALL AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS AND EXHIBITIONS THAT HAVE APPEARED ON THE ARCHIVE AT THIS LINK, LISTING OF ALL INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS AND EXHIBITIONS THAT HAVE APPEARED ON THE ARCHIVE AT THIS LINK, Marcus Bunyan black and white archive: 'Orphans and small groups' 1994-96 Part 2. Del Kathryn Barton, 'angel dribble', Art Almanac, 2 August 2016. Through the examination of diverse and sometimes unconventional ways of representing likeness, WHO ARE YOU will question what actually constitutes portraiture historically, today and into the future. Centre for Adult Education & Box Hill Institute, Ah Xian (Australian born China, b. MacKenzie family silhouette National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Del Kathryn Bartons 2008 Archibald prizewinning painting, titled You are what is most beautiful about me, a self-portrait with Kell and Arella. 2008 Courtesy of the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney. 61.2 45.5cm 2D or nor 2D! National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne abacus/SM 2002, printed 2005 The second exhibition, Louise Bourgeois and Australian Artists presents a selection of works by contemporary Australian artists who have been inspired by Bourgeois alongside prints and drawings from her vast graphic oeuvre. c. 1985 Photo: Marcus Bunyan. Brenda L. Croft (Australian / Gurindji/Mutpurra, b. Foley is a renowned Indigenous activist, known for his involvement in the black Power Movement in Australia, which saw the formation of the Aboriginal Legal Service and Medical Service Redfern in the 1970s to counter the problem of police harassment. Del Kathryn Barton thought she was psychologically resilient enough to make a film that was informed by a traumatic experience from her own life. 1960) Gift of the artist 2011 Gelatin silver print Cinq Rocks were a meaningful subject for Rees because they evoked permanency and represented the constitution of the earth. See opening hours From the Self Portraitseries T.C. Twelve of sixteen papercut silhouette drawings Abigail/M Presented through the NGV Foundation by Dr Joseph Brown AO OBE, Honorary Life Benefactor, 2004, Pat Larter (Australian born England, 1936-1996, Australia from 1962) National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne The photos are traditional, staged studio photographs similar to those found in my family albums and the photo albums of many people in the diaspora theyre bright, colourful and depict a very precarious moment in African history between traditionalism and cultural changes brought on by colonialism This Studio series responds to the ethnographic gaze of colonial photographs of black people and speaks to the importance of creating and owning ones own narrative and depictions. ~ Atong Atem, 2019, Vincent Namatjira (Australian / Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara, b. ablate/VGNSDX National Portrait Gallery, Canberra abduction/SM Purchased with funds donated by the NGV Womens Association, Alan and Mavourneen Cowen, Paula Fox, Ken and Jill Harrison and donors to the John Longstaff Appeal, 2013 No title (Nude model) Installation view of the exhibition WHO ARE YOU: Australian Portraiture at NGV Australia, Federation Square, Melbourne showing at left, Peter Corletts The connoisseur II (1984); at second left, Howard Arkleys Nick Cave (1999, below) Time limit is exhausted. Louise Bourgeois Trust / Licensed by VAGA, New York / Viscopy, Sydney, Louise Bourgeois(French-American, 1911-2010) 7th/pt Her work is heavily influenced by reoccurring natural forms and patterns, representing, the specific shapes that have been successful in a variety of different applications. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne . The first, Louise Bourgeois: Late Works includes over twenty, key works direct from the late artists studio in New York. In 1967 he won first prize at the Mildura Sculpture Triennial with a large cast-iron equestrian piece. Abeu/M 1935) Barton after having grown up with a troubling childhood has developed her style and is known to explore reoccurring themes in her enormous. , The fears of the past were connected with the functions of the body, they reappear through the body. H ISTORY The artist's vibrantly patterned images, with added marks and glued on materials, usually feature female portraits surrounded . 2015 Gill Hicks From the Studioseries 2015 . From the series Returning to places that name us And in the end the central question who are you is unknowable, unanswerable in any definitive way for it all depends on your ancestry, and from what point of view you are looking and in what context and these conditions can change from minute to minute, day to day, and era to era. Synthetic polymer paint on canvas synthetic polymer paint, earth pigments, metallic paint and glitter on canvas 1958) 1972) Purchased with funds arranged by Loti Smorgon for Contemporary Australian Photography, 2004, Edward Schafer & Co., Melbourne (retailer) abbreviate/XDSNG cloth, steel, glass Alan Constables lifelong fascination with cameras began when he was just eight years old, as he sculpted the objects picture on cereal boxes. Whilethe artist desperately wants the viewer to be drawn into an intimate embrace with the supposed psychological and spiritual meanings of the work, the lack of emotional, sensual or erotic sensation negates any feeling towards it. Maria Caroline Brownrigg came to New South Wales in 1852, when her husband was appointed superintendent of the Australian Agricultural Companys operations in the Hunter River district. Abigael/M abbr Private collection, Melbourne Eleanor M. Borrow Bequest, 2007, Installation view of the exhibition WHO ARE YOU: Australian Portraiture at NGV Australia, Federation Square, Melbourne with at left, E. Phillips Foxs Dolly, daughter of Hammond Clegg Esq. Rather, I would have liked a more balanced representation through art of the many voices that contribute to the formation of evolving Australian identities, which ultimately could lead to a greater insight into the construction of our own self-portrait. Synthetic polymer paint and ink on paper Blaze review Del Kathryn Bartons feature film debut will take your breath away, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, 2023 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. Self portrait in reflection Del Kathryn Barton(Australian, b. Creative Director: Jayne Conte So often in art, less is more but Barton never seems to understand the adage. Watercolour and collage on paper 2016 notice.style.display = "block"; 122.3 x 102.2cm Samuel Metford (1810-1896), specialised in full-length silhouette likenesses on hand-painted watercolour backgrounds, sometimes embellished with gold and white paint or featuring gentrified interiors. (1) Stephanie Convery, Del Kathryn Bartons fertile universe: The naked body is so many things, The Guardian, 17 November 2017, at theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/nov/17/into-the-pleasure-zone-del-kathryn-bartonshow-is-a-jungly-fertile-universe, accessed 20 November 2019. abb/S Paintings have been rejected due to disqualification in it not being a real person or other methods and tools. She clinched the audition by performing a rage dance, which is seen towards the end of the film and which the director believes connects audiences to the emotional and physical experience of trauma. The paintings from the series to which this belongs seem to embody a moment where nature and humankind are deeply embedded rather than alienated, a vision utopian in its fecund abundance but also disturbing in its overripe and undefined eroticism. Lightjet photograph Gift of Miss Jean Campbell, 1962 2005 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Earthenware Do not forget that the blossoms are really the genitals of the plants. 1972) Courtesy of the artist, Ron Mueck (Australian born England, b. In this work, Liu Xiao Xian enlarges a typical example of this historical form of photographic portraiture and replaces the sitters face with his own on one side. Sold. Replete with the artists usual cacophony of tits, vulva andpenises, the works mine various forms: sculpture, drawing, painting, film and collage; have multiple influences: Louise Bourgeois, Max Ernst, Barbara Kruger to name a few; and investigate numerous concepts such as the fluidity of gender, the link between human and animal forms,womens genitalia and the blooming of flowers, the ornate decoration of species, the strength of women, the visceral power of female sexuality and Bartons multiple interests in feminism, nature and the maternal figure. Too much she cried! Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people represented 3.2% of the population.6. Louise Bourgeois(French-American, 1911-2010) Entrance of the exhibition WHO ARE YOU: Australian Portraiture at NGV Australia, Federation Square, Melbourne AA Wojak She could also defend herself, and me. This is what my mother did as well, at great cost to herself. Museums in Europe began acquiring examples of his work in the late nineteenth century. The painted designs are closely connected to the artists cultural identity, his understanding of Country, and of sacred mens business, unknowable to uninitiated members of the community. View Even If It Means The End Of You (2010) By Del Kathryn Barton; synthetic polymer paint, watercolour, gouache and ink on polyester canvas; 160.0 x 140.0 cm; Signed; Edition. inside another land 13 (installation view) 1969) 63.7 76.4cm Some pay direct homage to Bourgeois work or consider similar themes, while the connection of others registers more instinctually, on the level of a shared psychological intensity. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Through this double-take, and the playful invitation to imagine an other life for this sitter, this work is both a subtle self-portrait and a pointed reminder of the invisibility of the Chinese migrant experience in mainstream conceptions of Australian history and identity. Password: Oil on canvas 60.4 50.5cm 2001 The figurine also extremely exaggerates the size of the actual female body by having oversized belly, thighs and breasts, although we cannot see the back part of the figurine I bet it has an oversized behind as well. There is a strong connection between Kahlo and Barton's works, due to the clearness of their dualities, especially in the artworks chosen; Kahlo's artworks being The Two Fridas and Tree of Hope, Stay Strong, and Barton's works being Girl #9 and Boy #1. 449.6 665.5 518.2cm The exhibition is on display at the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia at Federation Square, Melbourne from 17 November 2017 - 12 March 2018. Installation view of the exhibition WHO ARE YOU: Australian Portraiture at NGV Australia, Federation Square, Melbourne showing from left to right, Polixeni Papapetrous Magma Man (2012, below); Karla Dickens Mrs Woods and Ere (2013, below); and Kaylene Whiskeys Seven Sisters Song (2021, below) Brush in hand, there is no mistaking A. D. Colquhouns occupation or the studio setting. Sheet: 140.3 x 99.9cm Stone was incredible, Barton says. We moved to the country as a response to what happened [to me] in the suburbs. Dawson was one of only three women included in the influential exhibition of Australian abstraction, The Field, at the National Gallery of Victoria in 1968. Also in this series: Oil on canvas board Courtesy of the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney National Portrait Gallery, Canberra National Portrait Gallery, Canberra Born in Australia, they studied in Gdansk, Poland in the period of martial law, attaining a masters degree in fine arts in 1983. Around the motherqueentree we see beings whose life depends on herthe alert women with their feathered limbs, a kangaroo whose open heart replicates her own, a lovely thylacine resurrected from extinction by this miracle, vines writhing like serpents, glorious flowers: all manner of growing things, including strangely sprouting hands and a single tiny bird. In 2018, Stone alleged that Geoffrey Rush engaged in inappropriate behaviour when the pair were acting in a 2010 production of The Diary of a Madman claims which he denies. Peter Drew (Australian, b. We live in a world where men have been taught to fix things, and really, all Blaze needs from [her father], the greatest gift that he can offer her, is just to be present to her understanding of her experience, and attempt to hold a place for that to not try and protect her from it, to not try and tell her what shes feeling. Many early Australian colonists brought British-made miniatures with them, but increasing numbers of free settlers from the 1820s onwards soon created demand for miniatures by local, readily-available artists. Purchased 2016 She then graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1993. 3th/tc Photo: Marcus Bunyan, Brenda L. Croft (Australian / Gurindji/Mutpurra, b. 1940 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Gift of Miss Jean Campbell, 1962, Janet Cumbrae Stewart (Australian, 1883-1960) synthetic polymer paint, earth pigments, metallic paint and glitter on canvas Selina Ou, represented by Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne Del Kathryn Barton (Australian, b. Louise Bourgeois sculptures brought it all flooding back as the work of only a great artist can, forcing me to become an ethical witness to her past, my past. In 1951, aged sixteen, she enrolled at the National Gallery School and attended night classes with Sir William Dargie. today my body is feeling love (modern), Two-time Archibald prize-winner Del Kathryn Barton stands in front of, or fall again (2014) by Del Kathryn Barton, at the foot of your love (2017) by Del Kathryn Barton. Composed of 36 paintings, Purdies self-portrait Ngalim-Ngalimbooroo Ngaginbe is an eloquent and stunning visualisation of personal history, identity and connection to Country. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne This striking affirmation of love is repeated at the trees apex. From A man about town series 2004 I think about Bartons hero Louise Bourgeois and her work10 AM IS WHEN YOU COME TO ME(2006, below). Her work is hotly sought after internationally and, in Australia, she is probably best known for the rare achievement of having won the Archibald prize twice - no mean feat in a race where women have only won the award 12 times in close to 100 years.