Brett Whiteley 'Lavender Bay Wharf' animals Red dirt shifts into yellow

Red dirt shifts into yellow light before giving way to a blue sky

Thomson's importance to the evolution of Australian abstract movement had been recognised by numerous awards and prizes

Boyd was keenly attuned to precarity of life and the environment

This work is a play on Marcel Duchamp’s famous work ‘L

prints and contemporary Australian art

Brett Whiteley 'Lavender Bay Wharf' animals Red dirt shifts into yellowOne of Australias most iconic artists, Brett Whiteley was deeply preoccupied with the relationship between self and place, often questioning the extent to which environment shapes identity. This inquiry is powerfully expressed in his depictions of Lavender Bay, the small Sydney suburb that housed his studio and home, where landscape becomes inseparable from lived experience. In 'Lavender Bay Wharf', this sense of intimacy is intricately conveyed.