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The Art of Australia
Former director and chief curator of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Edmund Capon explores the story of Australian art through the country's rich cultural traditions stretching back 30,000 years.
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Artwork featured in Episode 3
- 'Anak Byan' (1957) Ian Fairweather
- 'Spanish Encounter' (1960) John Olsen
- 'Silver and Grey' (late 1960s) Fred Williams
- 'Wrapped Coast' (1969)Â Christo & Jeanne Claude
- 'Interior with Black Rabbit' (1973) Arthur Boyd
- 'Alchemy' (1973) Brett Whiteley
- 'Kundaagi' (1962)Â David Yirawala
- 'Central Australian Landscape' (1950s) Albert Namatjira
- 'Three Dreamings' (1984)Â Michael Nelson Tjakamarra
- 'Qantas Plane' (1995) John Moriaty
- 'Civilised' (2012) Michael Cook
- 'Untitled #30' (2012) Bill Henson
- 'Bulletproof Glass' (2002) Rosemary Laing
- 'Snake' (1970) Sydney NolanÂ
Artwork featured in Episode 2
- ‘Anzac, the Landing’ (1922) George Lambert
- ‘Lance Corporal M, after Afghanistan’ (2012) Ben Quilty
- ‘Droving into the Light’ (1921) Hans Heysen
- ‘The Bridge in Curve’ (1930) Grace Cossington Smith
- ‘Sunbaker’ (1937) Max Dupain
- ‘Australian Beach Pattern’ (1940) Charles Meere
- ‘The Bathers’ (1989) Anne Zahalka
- ‘Aboriginals in Fitzroy’ (1941) Yosl Bergner
- ‘Poverty and Prostitution’ (1943) Danila Vassilieff
- ‘Victory Girls’ (1943) Albert Tucker
- ‘Girl’ (1957) Joy Hester
- ‘Boy and the Moon’ (1940)
- ‘Ned Kelly’ (1946)
- ‘Inland Australia’ (1950)
- ‘Sofala’ (1946) Russell Drysdale
- ‘Group of Aborigines’ (1953) Russell Drysdale
- ‘Bride Running Away’ (1957) Arthur Boyd
Artwork featured in Episode 1
- ‘Longing Belonging’ (1997) Hossein Valamanesh
- ‘Sirius Cove’ (1896) Arthur Streeton
- ‘Inner View of Newcastle’ (1818) Joseph Lycett
- ‘Enter At Your Own Risk’ (2010) Joan Ross
- ‘My Harvest Home’ (1835) John Glover
- ‘Death in Exile’ (2007) Ricky Maynard
- ‘Northeast View from the Northern Top of Mount Kosicusko’ (1863) Eugene von Guerard
- ‘The Buffalo Range’ (1864) Nicholas Chevalier
- ‘Black Thursday’ (1864) William Strutt
- ‘Golden Summer’ (1889) Arthur Streeton
- ‘Mosman Bay’ (1894) Tom Roberts
- ‘The Big Picture’ (1903) Tom Roberts