Collection: Penrith Gallery

The imagery in Ann Thomson's paintings is complex, dense, often bewildering but always beguiling and intriguing. It is as though we are being invited into a private revelation of thoughts, remembrances and emotions.

Ann Thomson's paintings come from her subconscious, they are not the result of one particular place or image, rather ideas and images which have unconsciously been gathered through her life.

Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2 December 2004 to 13 February 2005. The Anne Landa Award was the first biennial exhibition in Australia for moving image and new media work.

The biggest and the best. From the Bologna International Children's Book Fair comes this annual compendium of originality and talent in children's book illustrations.

Focuses on art in Australia in the decades 1970 to 1980. Sixteen essays were selected from the general art-critical fields - magazines, catalogues and newspapers.

Each year critics, artists & the general public debate an Australian art prize that has been fraught with controversry & rattled the art establishment since its inception - the Archibald Prize. This work offers an informative history.

Described as a leading member of the third generation of modern architects, Harry Seidler's work is known throughout the world. In this book, Peter Blake evaluates this work in relation to other world figures in architecture.

Arshile Gorky was an unabashedly ambitious artist apprenticing himself to a series of masters most notably Cezanne and Picasso in order to become, at last, the master of his own uniquely original style.

By alienation is meant a mode of expereince in which the person experiences himself as an alien. He has become, one might say, estranged from himself. He does not experience himself as the centre of his world, as the creator of his own acts.

An extensive range of suburban images are examined, from Arthur Streeton and Frederick McCubbin, to the modernist suburban reveries of Clarice Beckett in the 1930s and the surreal wartime streetscapes of Albert Tucker, to contemporary artists.