Collection: Reference

Examines the life and work of one of Australia's earliest colonial artists who worked in Australia from 1815 to 1822 and was responsible for the most extravagantly illustrated account of the colony, published in London in 1824-25.

Joseph Banks accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage round the world from 1768 to 1771. A gifted and wealthy young naturalist, Banks collected exotic flora from Madeira, Brazil, Tierra del Fuego, the Society Islands, New Zealand, Australia and Java, bringing back over 1300 species that had n...

Wolseley continues to explore the natural workings of the planet. Grishin describes how the artist turns the seemingly random confluences of natural things into a process of change and decay within the over-arching endurance of life.