Spotlight On: Contemporary Australian Art
Guest-edited by Dr. Charles Green at the University of Melbourne, Grove Art's newest update focuses on the contemporary art of Australia.
To begin investigating Australian modern and contemporary art, please see the Thematic Guide and Timeline, covering Australian art from 1600 to the present day. These guides provide context to internationally acclaimed artists such as performance collective The Kingpins, mixed-media artist Patricia Piccinini, and influential contemporary Aboriginal painters, including Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, Julie Dowling, Paddy Bedford and Rusty Peters. Here are some highlights from the Australian art update:
Simryn Gill
Rosemary Laing
Anne Zahalka
The Kingpins
Ah Xian
Guan Wei
Ian North
Bill Henson
Robert Hunter
Shaun Gladwell
Patricia Piccinini
Wolfgang Sievers
Sue Ford
Paddy Bedford
Rusty Peters
William Barak
Hilda Rix Nicholas
Julie Dowling
Ricky Swallow
Gordon Bennett
Australian contemporary art, 1995–2010
Australian biennale and art exhibition space boom, 1995–2010
Art market in Australia, 1995–2010
Photography, Australian
Aboriginal Australian contemporary art, 1990–2010
Grove Art has also added 32 new articles from The Grove Encyclopedia of Northern Renaissance Art. Drawing on the unsurpassed scholarship on the Renaissance in Northern Europe in The Dictionary of Art, The Grove Encyclopedia of Northern Renaissance Art provides unparalleled scope and depth in a field that has inspired and informed Western art for centuries.
