The Australian National Maritime Museum is taking an unconventional look at Australian art in a major new exhibition – from Indigenous rock paintings and scientific illustrations to 20th century still-life pictures and contemporary multimedia. ‘Fish in Australian Art’ highlights how the simple subject of ‘fish’ has been a source of artistic inspiration for hundreds of years.
Spanning centuries, art movements, and mediums the exhibition presents more than 170 works by well-known Australian artists such as Margaret Olley, William Dobell, Yvonne Koolmatrie, Rupert Bunny, Anne Zahalka, John Brack, Michael Leunig, John Olsen, Craig Walsh and others.
Australian National Maritime Museum
To October 5, 2012
Sydney
Kenneth Macqueen, The Beach Fisherman, 1934, watercolour
Courtesy the New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale
