Ken McGregor

Selected artists and their families were asked to travel to destinations of their choice and to create new artworks as a result of their experiences.

Unfinished Journey

John Olsen

Jenny Zimmer

John Olsen's prolific work has illuminated Australia's landscape for decades. Here, its features are seen anew as he approaches them with his distinctive artistic style. Containing several hundred glorious reproductions of paintings and drawings, accompanied by an historical overview and comments drawn from the artist's diaries, John Olsen: Journeys into the 'You Beaut Country' provides both the familiar and the uninitiated with a unique vision of Australia.

Journeys Into the You Beaut Country

This volume, companion to John Olsen: Teeming With Life (2005) which contained this artist's complete printmaking oeuvre of more than 900 editions, presents a selection of several hundred paintings and drawings created over more than four decades. Perhaps more than any other post-war artists, John Olsen and Fred Williams have helped Australians see their unique landscape and its features with fresh vision. The several hundred glorious reproductions, accompanied by an historical overview and comments drawn from the artist's diaries, is certain to provide the viewer with an unique vision of Australia and particularly the spectacular 'outback' - as well as honour the artist in his eightieth year.

Journeys Into the "You Beaut Country'

Fred Cress is a Sydney artist who divides his time between Australia and rural France, where he maintains a second studio. He is a keen student of human nature. While his quizzical gaze detects the subjects those who flirt, chase, dance, banquet and otherwise engage in the whole gamut of human affairs his drawing skills, honed over five decades, provide the means of recording them on paper or canvas. This book is about drawing, and about the artists use of drawing to capture multiple nuances of human behaviour. Cress is an Australian artist who subscribes to the tradition of artists like Rembrandt and Goya who sought to express aspects of the human condition as they saw it in their times. The more than 900 drawings reproduced in this book are arranged in series which date from the 1950s to the present.

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