Collection: Penrith Gallery

His theory that 'the history of mankind could be written with objects', was first expressed in his early collage pictures using fragments of advertisements and other parts of journals and newspapers. He later created sculpture from industrial debris.

The noted critic E. C. Goossen, draws upon many conversations with Kelly to trace the artist's development from the formative years of Boston Museum School through the wartime experiences and then on to the six year stay in Paris.....

Elwyn Lynn was a powerful presence in Australia's art world for nearly five decades, as an art critic, curator, painter and editor. This is a catalogue of an exhibition of his work held at the Nolan Gallery, Tharwa, ACT, 11 October to 14 December, 2003.

Lynn pursued his artistic interest in surface texture as an expression of metaphorical experience. This retrospective both appreciates and evaluates the important place his painting has occupied over a period of thirty-five years.

The encyclopedia of Australian boxers was compiled not only to recognise the Australian and World champions, but to give mention to the many prelim fighters that, until now, have not had the recognition they deserve.

In the East the erotic is both a cardinal image in religious symbolism and a powerful inspiration to the imagination of poets and artists. Includes the most significant and beautiful works of erotic art in India, the Islamic countries, China and Japan.

A book created from a special issue of ART and Australia, published in September 1992, which explored eroticism and sexual imagery in Australian art. It provides an historical account of the subject and artists well-known for their work in this area.

A catalogue of an exhibition held at Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW 21 October - 28 November 2002. Davis's sculptures in stainless steel, metal and bronze use technical innovation to represent the environment.

Broad survey of Eskimo sculpture that examines how the structure of Eskimo life influences art. Discusses prehistoric, historic and contemporary Eskimo sculpture from Alaska, Canada and Greenland.

Catalogue of two exhibitions held at Serpentine Gallery, London, 13 March-25 April 1982 and Institute of Contemporary Arts, 24 March-25 April 1982. Both exhibitions co-ordinated and catalogue assembled by Vivienne Binns and Nancy Underhill.

This summary catalouge constitutes a response to many enquiries, both here and overseas, about the holdings of old master paintings in the public collections of Australia and new Zealand.

The classic study of the European interpretation of the Pacific in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, uses the work of artists on scientific voyages from Cook to Dumont d'Urville, relates their work to the science and prevailing ideas of the era.

Gauguin said 'in art there are only revolutionists or plagiarists.' In the dedication Rutter wrote: 'To Rebels of either sex all the world over who in any way are fighting for freedom of any kind I dedicate this study of their painter comrades'.

The origins of Expressionism is detailed, as well as the art form in Dresden, Munich, Berlin, Vienna, the Rhineland and after World War I. Expressionism originated in Germany as a reaction to Impressionism.

An overview of the art of the Expressionists it examines the work of Kirchner, Beckmann, Kokoscha, Nolde, Pechstein and others, and the Brucke and Blaue Reiter movements. Includes short biographies of over one hundred painters.

Introductory essay by Dorothy Vandersteel.

Based on exhibitions held for the 6th Biennale of Sydney, in 1986 at the Australian Centre for Photography, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest - Manly Art Gallery and Museum, & S. H. Ervin Gallery, National Trust Centre.

French painting: the revolutionary decades is an exhibition of paintings and supporting sketches from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries selected from the collections of the Musee du Louvre and other French museums.

Presents photographs by William Yang of the Sydney gay scene between the mid 1970's and 1990 focusing on the Sleaze Ball and Mardi Gras.

Frozen Gestures was a retrospective exhibition of the artist Peter Upward, who is often described as the purest of Australia`s abstractionists. It focuses on more than 50 of his works including paintings, screen prints and posters.