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Artist: Garry Zeck
Title: Kangaroo
Signature: Initialled lower left
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 89 x 113cm

Garry Zeck was born in Perth in 1941, studied at Edith Cowan University and is renowned for his ceramics, drawings and painting.

“The authentic journey is a journey from the heart. To be an artist is to experience that journey every day, to ask what I want to say with my art and how the materials I use are going to contribute to this expression” – Garry Zeck.

Artist: Frederick Ronald Williams
Title: Yan Yean Landscape
Signature: Signed lower left
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 79.5 x 70.5cm

Artist: Frederick Ronald Williams
Title: Arid Landscape
Signature: Signed lower left
Medium: Mixed Media on paper
Size : 55 x 74.5 cm

Fred Williams (Born Richmond Vic 1927-1982 died Melbourne) must be one of Australia's greatest and innovative landscape artists of the last century.This piece, painted in 1965-67 reflects his open landscape style of the time and is very recognisable as a "Fred Williams" work.

Artist: Fred Williams
Title: Landscape with water ponds
Signature: Signed lower left
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 153 x 183cm

Fred Williams (Born Richmond Vic 1927, died Melbourne 1982) must be one of Australia's greatest and innovative landscape artists of the last century.
This piece, painted in 1965-67 reflects his open landscape style of the time and is very recognisable as a "Fred Williams" work.

Artist: Danila Vassilieff
Title: Alleyway (Street scene Surry Hills)

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Danila (Daniel) Vassilieff. Born in Russia 1897 – died 1958 Bullen VIC). Vassilieff was a painter and sculptor who grew up in Russia and served in the Russian Civil War. After being captured and then escaping the Red Army, he made his way to China, eventually moving to Australia in 1923. He took Australian Citizenship in 1929 and promptly moved to Paris then onto Rio de Janeiro. He returned to Australia in 1935.

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Artist: Timothy Austin Storrier
Title: Colonial Pavillion
Signature: Yes
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 151 x 151cm

Tim Storrier was born on 13 February 1949 in Sydney and, although extensively travelled, still resides with his wife Janet in rural NSW.

He has been described as a quintessential "Australian" painter. Storrier's images of low horizons and the vast skies of Australia are truly magnificent. His paintings of fire, refer to his works of 'Fire Lines', are truly breathtaking.

Artist: Jeffrey Smart
Title: Housing Project No. 84. 1970
Signature: Signed lower left
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 81 x 100 cm

Artist: Jeffrey Smart
Title: The Two Up Game
Signature: Signed lower right
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 65 x 198 cm

Artist: Garry Shead
Title: Petit Testament
Signature: Yes
Medium; Oil on Canvas,
Size: 228 x 304cm

Artist: Garry Shead
Title: Apoth Ern Malley
Signature: Yes
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 228 x 304cm

Garry Shead was born in Sydney in 1942 and is accomplished as a painter, filmmaker, printmaker and ceramic artist. He was awarded the Archibald Prize in 1993 and the Dobell Prize in 2004.

Artist: Samuel Thomas Gill
Title: On South Creek near Penrith NSW
Signed: initialled lower centre left
Medium: Watercolour
Size: 32.5cm (circular)

Samuel Thomas Gill (1818-1880)

Gill, born in the UK in 1818 and sailed with his family to Australia 1839. He began his artistic life working on pencil sketches and water colour portraits.

After travelling to the Victorian goldfields in 1852 he was acknowledged as one of the leading artists of the goldfields at that time. Later (in 1850s/60s) his skill as a lithographer produced a great number of works (refer to Victorian Gold Diggings and Diggers of Victoria) for organisations such as the Melbourne Public Library. Falling on hard times, he died from an aneurism, broke and alone, in Melbourne in 1880.

Artist: William Robinson
Title: Canungra Landscape
Signed: Lower Right
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 136 x 187cm

William Robinson (1936- )

Internationally acclaimed, Robinson didnt begin painting full time until he was in his 50s, and is the only living Australian with a gallery within a major institution, QUT Brisbane, dedicated solely to his work.

His broad range of art includes epic landscapes, portraits and, in these later years, still life. He has won the Archibald Prize twice (1987, 1995).

Artist: Rosslynd Piggott
Title: Landscape with Lillies & Golden Spheres
Signature: yes
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 136 x 182cm

Rosslynd Piggott, born VIC 1958, studied in Melbourne.

Piggott is known for her misty ghost-like paintings, scenes of surrealistic dreams leaving the viewer with a sense of drifting through a piece of her art. Her interests include glass-blowing, painting, drawing, photography and fabrics.

Artist: John Olsen
Title: Duttons Island the Barbeque
Signed: Signed titled dated 84 lower right
Medium: Oil on board
Size: 183 x 244cm

John Olsen AO OBE (Born 1928)

Olsen has never considered himself a painter of abstracts having stated "I have never painted an abstract in my life", he deems his work more evocative art.

He is represented in all Australian State gallery collections and proudly won the Archibald Prize in 2005.

Artist: Sidney Nolan
Title: Lyre Bird
Signed: Signed and dated
Medium: Oil on Board
Size: 151 x 120.5cm

Sir Sidney Robert Nolan OM AC RA (1917-1992)

Nolan was a landscape artist, set designer and poet, and probably best known for his depictions of the history and early days of Australian bush life. In particular, the Ned Kelly bushranger series.

Artist: Sidney Nolan
Title: Landscape
Signature: Signed lower right
Medium: Ripolin on Card
Size: 51 x 63cm

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Artist: Sidney Nolan
Title: Boat at Night, c1984

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Artist: Peter Neilson
Title: Tie Me Up, then Survelle Me
Signature: Yes
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 176 x 300cm

Artist: Peter Neilson
Title: History Rising - To Claim Us All
Signature: yes
Medium: Oil on Linen
Size: 200 x 300cm

Artist: Peter Neilson
Title: Another Night of Celebrations at the Hollow Victory Hotel
Signature: yes
Medium: Oil on Linen
Size: 120 x 205cm

Artist: Tim Maguire
Title: Untitled 20050701,2005
Signed:
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 182 x 162cm

Australian artist Tim Maguire was born in the UK in June 1958. Swansea Gallery had the immense pleasure of hosting a very successful exhibition of Tim's work in October 2012.

His work is exciting and colourful and he must be considered one of Australia's most talented and renowned contemporary artists of his time.

Artist: Norman Alfred Williams Lindsay
Title: Other Wives Husbands

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Artist: Norman Alfred Williams Lindsay
Title: Filibusters Heaven

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Artist: Kerrie Lester
Title: Cruising

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Kerrie Lester (1953-2016) Born in Surrey Hills Sydney. Lester was a finalist on 16 occasions in the Archibald Prize but gave up entering in 2012, probably in protect. She held many solo exhibitions and was once 'artist in residence' at Taronga Zoo in Sydney.

She passed away from leukemia following a two year battle in 2016 aged 63

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Artist: Colin Lanceley
Title: Batterie de Cuisine

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Artist: Robert Juniper
Title: Peasant Girl

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Artist: Robert Juniper
Title: Central Australia 1967

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Artist: Christine Johnson
Title: Mutabilis 1
Signature: No
Medium: Oil on board
Size: 165 x 102cm

Artist: John Coburn
Title: Moondancer
Signature: yes
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 112 x 100cm

John Coburn AM, born Qld 1925 and died 2006.

Coburn was an abstract painter, set designer, teacher, printmaker and a world-famous tapestry designer. His fondness for art to be ‘precise, clear and deliberate’ was at the heart of his way of thinking and working. A deeply spiritual man, one can only imagine his thoughts at having one of his works accepted for the Vatican collection in Rome.

Artist: John Coburn
Title: Landscape with Bird
Signature: yes
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 112 x 100cm

Artist: Jeffrey Smart AO
Title: Portrait of Bruce Beresford 2009
Signed:
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 94 x 130cm

Jeffrey was born in Adelaide in 1921 and died in Tuscany in 2013 aged 91. He was famous for his modernism in landscape painting and urban vistas with figures being present in many of his art works. These figures he called "impassive observers" and he used them mainly for scale.

Artist: Hans Heysen
Title: Sunlit Gums

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Sir Hans Heysen OBE was a born in Germany in 1877 and migrated to Adelaide in SA in 1884 aged 7. Hans most famous pieces depict cattle and sheep surrounded by a background of splendid gum trees. He had a particular talent for depicting light.

Hans Heysen died in 1968.

His family home and garden situated at Hahndorf in the hills of Adelaide is called The Cedars and is open to the public.

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Artist: Elaine Alys Haxton
Title: The Idle Boy
Signature: Signed and dated lower left
Medium: Mixed Media on card
Size; 37 x 47 cm

Elaine Alys Haxton, AM. Born 1909 - died 1999. She was an Australian artist who worked prolifically in the areas of commercial graphics and print making as well as theatre/costume design over the course of her long career in the Arts.

Artist: James Haughton Forrest
Title: Sorrell Creek
Signature: None
Medium: Oil on card
Size: 30 x 46 cm

(James) Haughton Forrest (1826-1925) was born in France to English parents and come to Australia as a married man in 1876, settling in Tasmania.

His art is dominated mainly by stormy maritime scenes, with his landscapes, in complete contrast, depicting tranquility and peace.

Artist: Euan Heng
Title: Comic Capers
Signature:
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 183 x 137cm

Euan Heng was born in Scotland in 1945 and moved to Australia in 1977.

To quote Heng on his style “no vulgar brush strokes and no detail to distract – just gently modulated pigment to activate float shapes of colour. I want the visual response to my new paintings to be rapid, if possible, after which the viewer, should he or she wish, can invest further time in unpacking the content, or in discovering the paintings secrets. By seeking this pictorial suddenness, formally speaking my aim is to avoid the ‘expressionist’, and to privilege instead the flatness of the painting’s surface.”

Artist: Graeme Drendel
Title: Veil
Signed: Signed & dated 04 lower right
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 183 x 137cm

Graeme Drendel was born in VIC in 1953. His stark Australian landscapes are the background for solitary isolated figures, these figures appear isolated even when depicted surrounded by others.

He was an Archibald Prize finalist in 2018 for a piece titled 'Portrait of Michel'.

Artist: Ray Crooke
Title: Western New South Wales
Signature: Signed lower left
Medium: Acrylic on hardboard
Size: 60 x 90.5 cm

Artist: Ray Crooke
Title: Still Life Cairns
Signature:
Medium: Oil on hardboard
Size: 74 x 58cm

Ray Austin Crooke AM was born in Auburn Victoria in 1922. Following many visits to Tahiti, Fiji and New Guinea, Crooke is well known for his Islander art, depicting vibrant works of Islander people and ocean landscapes.

He won the Archibald Prize in 1969.

Crooke passed away in Dec 2015.

Artist: Ray Crooke
Title: Island Interior 1
Signature: Signed lower left
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 90 x 120.5cm

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Artist: Ray Crooke
Title: Fijian with Flower and Fruit
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 120.5 x 90cm

Artist: Peter Churcher
Title: Pietra

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Peter Churcher (1964) An Australian born portrait painter who has successfully been displayed at the Archibald Prize exhibition on numerous occasions.

In 2002 Churcher was commissioned by the Australian War Memorial as an official war artist for ‘The War Against Terrorism’ and was sent to the Persian Gulf and Diego Garcia. He and his family currently live in Spain.

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Artist: Nicholas Chevalier
Title: Albert Park, Melbourne
Signed: Signed & dated 1890
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 395. x 59.5cm

Russian born Chevalier (1828-1902) moved to Australia in 1855 to join his father and brother. By 1869 he had travelled to London where he settled and became hugely successful. Chevalier was fluent in 6 languages.

Artist: John Chesco
Title: Running Emus
Signed: Lower left
Medium: Plaster
Size: 91 x 122 cm

Chesco is a West Australian artist whose work is influenced by his love of architecture.

As well as a painter, he is well known for his sculptures.

Artist: Joanna Cappelle
Title: Two Up
Signed: Signed & dated 1983 lower right
Medium: Oil on canvas on hardboard
Size: 67.5 x 88cm

Artist: Joanna Capelle
Title: Sun Pictures
Signed: Signed & dated 1984 lower right
Medium: Oil on canvas on hardboard
Size: 66 x 100cm

Joanna Lefroy Capelle (born 1946 in WA), an international figurative artist, Capelle is well known in WA for her public art and 'cement render murals'. One of her most famous murals is located on the retaining wall of the western entrance of the Northbridge Tunnel in Perth.

Artist: Rupert Charles Wulsten Bunny
Title: Trees near Tintaldra
Signature: Signed lower right
Medium: Oil on canvas,
Size: 58 x 70 cm

Rupert Charles Bunny (1895 – 1947) Bunny was born into an affluent British/German family in Melbourne at the end of the 19th century. Moving to the Continent in 1933 and being fluent in German and French enabled him to assimilate into European society and he was much favoured as an artist in Paris, living there for many years. Brief visits to home with his wife were to follow, until 1933, when he returned to Australia after more than 50 years overseas.

Artist: John Brackenreg
Title: Marigolds
Signature: Signed lower right
Medium: Oil on panel
Size: 39 x 30.5 cm

John Brackenreg (born in Perth 1905 - died 1986) He was an artist and art dealer, however, is best known for his acquisition of Albert Namatjira’s copyright for all Namatjira’s works.

Artist: Cecil John Brack
Title: Study for the Party
Signature: Yes
Medium: Media media
Size: 76 x 46cm

John Brack (1920 – 1999) Brack began his artistic life as a poet, from there moving to become a painter and printmaker. He was considered an artist who was an outstanding painter of modern life in Australia, providing us with insights into suburban life.

Brack’s piece above formed part of his long series of works from 1978/86 featuring such objects as pencils in intricate patterns.

His works are often considered sardonically humourous.

Artist: Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd
Title: Early Murrumbeena
Signature: Signed lower right
Medium: Oil on hardboard
Size: 81.5 x 119 cm

Artist: Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd
Title: The Grass & Hay Gatherers
Signature: Signed lower right
Medium: Oil on board
Size: 100 x 74 cm

Artist: Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd
Title: Nude and Black Dog
Signed: Signed Lower Right
Medium: Oil on hardboard
Size: 136 x 120.5cm

Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd, AC OBE, was born in Murrumbeena VIC.
Born 1920 - died 1999.
He was a leading Australian painter in the middle to late 20th century.
His impressionistic works consist of Australian landscapes and figurations.

Artist: William Boissevain
Title: Startled Bird

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William (Wim) Boissevain OBE was born in the USA in 1927 but has lived in WA since 1947.

Boissevain is considered by the art world as one of Australia’s most distinguished artists. He is a contemporary artist known for his Impressionist style in producing paintings and drawings of still life, landscapes and the female form.

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Artist: William Boissevain
Title: Desert Pond

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Artist: Elizabeth Blair Barber
Title: Merry Go Round

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Elizabeth Blair Barber was Perth born (1909). She studied art in Perth, Melbourne and London and is known for sometimes signing her work as 'Betty Bunning'. Barber passed away in 2001.

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Artist: Arthur Boyd
Title: Woman Drinking from Stream with Red Dog
Medium: Oil and Tempura on Board
Size: 36 x 48"

Artist: Sue Anderson
Title: Paddock before Coles
Signed: Initialled & dated 02 lower right
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 137 x 91cm

Artist: Sue Anderson
Title: Night Owl
Signature: Initialled
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 162 x 137cm

Sue Anderson was born in Geelong in 1962 and studied Art in Melbourne. As a child she was surrounded by artists on both sides of her family, so it was no surprise for her to follow in their footsteps.

Anderson has said that “My artwork celebrates the momentous landscape at our backdoor, the fragile beauty of the everyday, the songs and dreams of our daily worlds”.

Artist: Jeffrey Smart
Title: The Walker 111 1968
Signed: Lower right
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 70 x 100cm

Artist: Ray Crooke
Title: Villagers Conversation

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