Famous Contemporary Australian Landscape Artists

English born landscape artist active in australia.

Famous contemporary australian landscape artists.

For our latest survey of creative talents around the world we go down under to find the most celebrated australian contemporary artists that stand out in a very versatile and rich art scene of the continent. One of australia s leading contemporary artists fiona hall s b. 10 of the best emerging australian landscape artists of 2020. 1960 is a filmmaker video artist and photographer whose stylistic experiments draw upon both popular culture and her own background examining subjects such as aboriginal subjugation maternal domination gender stereotypes and class division.

Contemporary indigenous australian artist actor composer and land rights activist. Born in new south wales in 1941 he has been an artist in residence at both ayers rock and kakadu and is a respected art judge and four time wynne prize winner. 1953 practice has included many public commissions and projects encompassing a wide range of media from photography to sculpture and installation which have increasingly engaged with themes of ecology history and the effects of globalization. Beginning his artistic career at the royal college of art in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Best known as a portrait miniaturist. Australia has some incredible contemporary landscape artists especially here on bluethumb so we think that s worth celebrating. 1800 art lover 9 30am 6pm mon fri email. However this british artist transplanted to california has come a long a way from his famous malibu and santa monica poolscapes of the 1960s and 1970s.

In 2012 hall took part in documenta 13 presenting an installation entitled. Deeply entrenched in a long and storied history contemporary landscape artists also contend with the future a future saddled with global warming and environmental catastrophe as well as our increasingly virtual spaces. But landscape painting s seemingly tired reputation makes it a fertile genre for innovation. Colin parker is a figurative australian landscape artist who captures the harsh isolation of the outback in bold and colourful lines.

Below we ve made a list of our bestsellers plus some new up and comers and big name prizewinners. The contemporary artist and his wife rubina even became the first aboriginal people to be granted australian citizenship in 1957 10 years before a. Namatjira s western style watercolour paintings of otherworldly outback landscapes introduced aboriginal art to white audiences for the first time winning critical acclaim and nation wide fame. Australia s more serious engagement with the contemporary arts movements worldwide had only started in the late 1970s with their first ever participation at the venice biennale and a.