Brett Whiteley 'Hullo (Cockatoo)' romantic

Brett Whiteley 'Hullo (Cockatoo)' romanticBirds recur throughout Brett Whiteleys work. As a child, he would steal eggs from nests and as an adult, paint them in his work. Forever moving around, he often thought of the flight paths of birds, his representations of them tinged with yearning for freedom and domestic stability. Hullo (Cockatoo) is a portrait of Australias most talkative bird, the cockatoo. It knocks at the cage, addressing the viewer with a hullo. From one perspective, it is a

Giardino draws an angel

a watercolor painted around the turn of the 20th century

he carves out her elegance

Image Size: 92 x 61 cm

For the framed variant

she reveals a layered complexity within this tonal composition of enriched bushland hues of chartreuse green

Multi-plate etching

Without the artist’s emotionality

Image Size: 57 x 32 cm

In an attempt to articulate the visceral potency of Christopher Rimmer’s photography

but also about Australia’s own often unspoken history of violence and displacement

this print focuses on a handheld mirror