Vic O'Connor 'Winter Sunshine' fantastical

Vic O'Connor 'Winter Sunshine' fantasticalVic OConnor was an instrumental member of Melbournes progressive social realist group, which also included Noel Counihan and Yosl Bergner. Together, they rallied against the art establishment with the fundamental belief that art and politics ought not be separated. This political edge pervades OConnors work. Influenced by a childhood spent working at Melbournes Victoria Markets, he depicted the hard work, comradeship and poverty associated with market

lost in her own thoughts as she sits at a table on the street

Signed: Signed by the artist

but also on temporality

David Rankin has forged a style that merges Eastern and Western perspectives

Austrian-Australian Bert Flugelman is known best for his monumental steel sculptures and geometric inspired compositions

State Library of Victoria

It testifies to Blackman’s status as among the key chroniclers of childhood

unwavering line-work and prolific production of studies

and fragility

Image Size: 20 x 15 cm

His contributions to art were uncompromising

welcome home this ‘Waving Boy’