The world in painting

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The world in painting offers a perspective into how Australian artists, from a range of generations and locations, are painting their worlds from domestic interiors to dream-like landscapes. It explores a number of themes including the workings of subjectivity and power, the strangeness and fantasy of the natural world, and the desire to encourage forms of creativity that are accessible to all.

Featured Artists

John Citizen

John Citizen limits his subject matter to contemporary interiors, which suggest their source in design magazines. The discordant colours and compressed perspective imply Citizen...

Amanda Davies

The paintings of Amanda Davies suggest their inspiration may lie in biographical introspection. However, this artist is primarily interested in the ability...

Diena Georgetti

Diena Georgetti explores the role and effect of paintings in the everyday world. Following her interest in modernism and the legacy of...

Raafat Ishak

In 2006 Rafaat Ishak commenced a project generated by his reflections on the reality of concepts such as citizenship, subject, home, nationality,...

Boxer Milner Tjampitjin and Nancy Naninurra Napanangka

For Boxer Milner Tjampitjin and Nancy Naninurra Napanangka in remote Western Australia, painting expresses deep affinities with ancestral lands. Each seemingly abstract composition...

James Morrison

Images by James Morrison derive from a felt response to nature, combined with a documentary impulse and the artist’s vivid imagination and...

Elizabeth Newman

Painting today reflects the diversity of cultures and personal sensibilities within societies. Elizabeth Newman refers to the objects she creates as ‘painting’. Employing...