Collection: Penrith Gallery

Brilliant, brittle, fragile, fluid in form, glass has been a rare commodity and highly prized throughout history. Only within the last hundred years it has been possible to make glass by machine, and it has become a common and inexpensive substance.

'... one of the leading architectural practices in Sydney. It is our estimate that twenty Sydney practices warrant such attention, on account of their major and exemplary works, and because of the ideas and principles held by their members' [cover]

Since his first solo exhibition in 1960, Andrew Sibley's work has had a major impact on art in Australia. An unconventional artist, he draws on the unconscious realm for his images and then locates them in our palpable and clamorous reality.

A catalogue of an exhibition held at Penrith Regional Gallery & Lewers Bequest in 2003, which focused on the life and brutal death of Anita Cobby. The exhibition combined art works, oral history, photographs and memorabilia.

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.