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Lin Onus's ‘Garkman’ is tranquillity distilled. It draws the viewer into a seemingly impossible perspectival position – a frog breaks the surface of a creek overlain with the reflection of trees. We simultaneously look from above and within, aware of the creek’s bed, its inhabitants and canopy overhead, recognising that the landscape – and our perspective – is never monolithic nor resolved.
Dale Cox’s ‘Untitled (Landscape)’ is meticulous. From his first exhibited series, this formative painting pictures the Australian bush – cerulean sky, spindly eucalyptus trees and orange earth – interrupted by three zooming motorcyclists. Can you spot them?
Arthur Boyd began creating works about the biblical tale of King Nebuchadnezzar in the late 1960s while he was living in London. Protests against the Vietnam War surrounded him, including a tragic self-immolation near his home in Hampstead Heath. Echoing the political climate, Boyd’s lithograph 'Untitled (Nebuchadnezzar on Fire)', is too engulfed in flames. “He wanted to possess everything… he wanted to possess people, possess animals… he wanted to be them”, Boyd reflected on the King.