Artist: Tom Roberts (1856 - 1931)
Nationality: British-Australian
Movement: Impressionism
Media: Painting
Influences:

Biography:
Tom Roberts was born in England but moved to Australia, working mostly in Melbourne. He was a primary figure in the introduction of Impressionism to the country and is considered a founder of Australia’s landscape traditions. He also spent a good deal of his career in Europe. After returning to Australia in 1885, he became a leader of the Heidelberg School, basing his work on the plein d’air style of painting. Roberts painted landscapes and portraits primarily, but also created historical and genre scenes.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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Philip Gilbert Hamerton The Unknown River (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1872) Book with 37 etchings 1872
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Philip Gilbert Hamerton Voudenay-Le-Chateau, opposite page 8 in the book, The Unknown River (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1872) Etching 1872
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Charles Baugniet David Roberts 19th century
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David Roberts Portrait of David Roberts Esq., R.A., plate 1 opposite title page in the book The Holy Land, with historical notes by George Croly (London: Day & Son, 1855), vol. 1 (of 6), Jerusalem and Galilee, [bound with The Holy Land, with histor
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Clare Leighton The Time Of Man by Elizabeth Madox Roberts (New York: The Viking Press, 1945) book in slipcase with 17 wood engravings 1945
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David Roberts The Holy Land, after the lithographs by Louis Haghe from drawings made on the spot by David Roberts, R.A with historical notes by George Croly (London: Day & Son, 1855), vols.1 ( Jerusalem and Galilee) and 2 (The Jordan and Bethlehem)
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Charles Sauvageot dans son appartement du 56 rue du faubourg Poissonnière (1856 en) by ROBERTS James
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D.J. Pound David Roberts, Esq., R.A. 19th - 20th century
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Discus, Mark D. Roberts (born 1943)  (Artist), 1978, Gelatin-silver print
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David Roberts The Holy Land, after the lithographs by Louis Haghe from drawings made on the spot by David Roberts, R.A., with historical notes by William Brockedon(London: Day & Son, 1855-1856), vols. 5 (Egypt and Nubia) and 6 (Egypt) (of six) boun
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Clare Leighton Illustration on page 351 in the book The Time Of Man by Elizabeth Madox Roberts (New York: The Viking Press, 1945) Wood engraving 1945
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Clare Leighton Illustration on page 139 in the book The Time Of Man by Elizabeth Madox Roberts (New York: The Viking Press, 1945) wood engraving 1945
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Clare Leighton Illustration on page67 in the book The Time Of Man by Elizabeth Madox Roberts (New York: The Viking Press, 1945) wood engraving 1945
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Clare Leighton Illustration on page 261 in the book The Time Of Man by Elizabeth Madox Roberts (New York: The Viking Press, 1945) wood engraving 1945
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Clare Leighton Illustration on page 234 in the book The Time Of Man by Elizabeth Madox Roberts (New York: The Viking Press, 1945) wood engraving 1945
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Clare Leighton End piece vignette on page 397 in the book The Time Of Man by Elizabeth Madox Roberts (New York: The Viking Press, 1945) wood engraving 1945
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Clare Leighton Title page vignette in the book The Time Of Man by Elizabeth Madox Roberts (New York: The Viking Press, 1945) wood engraving 1945
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David Roberts The Holy Land,after the lithographs by Louis Haghe from drawings made on the spot by David Roberts, R.A., with historical notes by George Croly and William Brockedon(London: Day & Son, 1855), vols. 3 (Idumea and Petra) and 4 (Egypt
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David Roberts The Dead Sea lithograph 18th - 19th century
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Clare Leighton Head piece vignette for chapter 5 on page 170 in the book The Time Of Man by Elizabeth Madox Roberts (New York: The Viking Press, 1945) wood engraving 1945
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Clare Leighton Head piece vignette for chapter 4 on page 130 in the book The Time Of Man by Elizabeth Madox Roberts (New York: The Viking Press, 1945) wood engraving 1945
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Clare Leighton Head piece vignette for chapter 1 on page 9 in the book The Time Of Man by Elizabeth Madox Roberts (New York: The Viking Press, 1945) wood engraving 1945
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Clare Leighton Head piece vignette for chapter 6 on page 200 in the book The Time Of Man by Elizabeth Madox Roberts (New York: The Viking Press, 1945) wood engraving 1945
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Clare Leighton Head piece vignette for chapter 7 on page 239 in the book The Time Of Man by Elizabeth Madox Roberts (New York: The Viking Press, 1945) wood engraving 1945
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Clare Leighton Head piece vignette for chapter 8 on page 298 in the book The Time Of Man by Elizabeth Madox Roberts (New York: The Viking Press, 1945) wood engraving 1945
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Clare Leighton Head piece vignette for chapter 2 on page 63 in the book The Time Of Man by Elizabeth Madox Roberts (New York: The Viking Press, 1945) wood engraving 1945
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Clare Leighton Head piece vignette for chapter 9 on page 335 in the book The Time Of Man by Elizabeth Madox Roberts (New York: The Viking Press, 1945) wood engraving 1945
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Clare Leighton Head piece vignette for chapter 10 on page 369 in the book The Time Of Man by Elizabeth Madox Roberts (New York: The Viking Press, 1945) wood engraving 1945
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Clare Leighton Head piece vignette for chapter 3 on page 104 in the book The Time Of Man by Elizabeth Madox Roberts (New York: The Viking Press, 1945) wood engraving 1945
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A Group of Animals, Geneva, David Roberts (Scotland, Stockbridge, 1796 - 1864)  (Artist), circa 1851, Oil on canvas
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A Group of Animals, Geneva, David Roberts (Scotland, Stockbridge, 1796 - 1864)  (Artist), circa 1851, Oil on canvas
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Eric Roberts, George Hurrell (United States, 1904 - 1992) , 1992, Gelatin-silver print
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Gyroscope-December 1, Donald Roberts (United States, New Hampshire, Wolfeboro, born 1923) , 1962, Lithograph
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Thomas Cartwright The Perilous Situation of Robert Roberts. 19th century
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Motivity-October 62, Donald Roberts (United States, New Hampshire, Wolfeboro, born 1923) , 1962, Lithograph
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Sampler, Mary Roberts (England, died N/A)  (Artist), circa 1825, Wool with silk thread embroidery on linen
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Ancient Fragment, Donald Roberts (United States, New Hampshire, Wolfeboro, born 1923) , 1962, Lithograph
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Ancient Fragment, Donald Roberts (United States, New Hampshire, Wolfeboro, born 1923) , 1962, Lithograph
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Louis Haghe Map to Illustrate the Sketches of Roberts in Egypt and Nubia - Egypt Lithograph 19th century
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David Roberts Bridge of Toledo, Madrid lithograph 18th - 19th century
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Lamp-Norton Cove, Donald Roberts (United States, New Hampshire, Wolfeboro, born 1923) , 1962, Lithograph
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Gyroscope-Santa Monica 62, Donald Roberts (United States, New Hampshire, Wolfeboro, born 1923) , 1962, Lithograph
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Louis Haghe The Holy Land - Portrait of David Roberts - Frontispiece to Vol. I Lithograph 19th century
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Louis Haghe The Holy Land - Portrait of David Roberts - Frontispiece to Vol. I Lithograph 19th century
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C. Roberts An Appeal for Mercy-pages 776 & 777,from Harper's Weekly,23 Sep 1876. Wood Engraving 19th - 20th century
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The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia, 1842-49 Author: David Roberts (Scottish, 1796-1864);
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VUE INTERIEURE D'UNE DES PIECES DE L'APPARTEMENT DE M.SAUVAGEOT, 56 FAUBOURG POISSONNIERE, AVANT LA TRANSLATION DE SA COLLECTION AU LOUVRE (1856) by ROBERTS Arthur Henry
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David Roberts Jerusalem From the Road Leading to Bethany lithograph 18th - 19th century
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David Roberts St. Mungo's Cathedral, Glasgow Lithograph with hand color 18th - 19th century
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Woman’s Riding Habit, Roberts & Carroll  (Label), 1930, Wool
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Woman with Red Lips, Holly Roberts (United States, born 1951)  (Artist), 1991, Gelatin-silver print on canvas with oil paint
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Lacs Roberts (2e moitié 19e siècle) by GUETAL Laurent
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Vue de l'intérieur de la cathédrale de Chartres (avec procession) (1832 en) by ROBERTS James
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C. Roberts The hunting season-A meet at the old Hall-pages 244 & 245 from The Graphic, 27 Feb. 1886. Wood Engraving 19th - 20th century
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Henry Benjamin Roberts Adam Warner Hooted as a Wizard - The Illustrated London News, 13 July 1872 wood engraving 19th - 20th century
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Hunter, Donald Roberts (United States, New Hampshire, Wolfeboro, born 1923) , 1962, Lithograph
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Hunter, Donald Roberts (United States, New Hampshire, Wolfeboro, born 1923) , 1962, Lithograph
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Untitled, Donald Roberts (United States, New Hampshire, Wolfeboro, born 1923) , 1962, Lithograph
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Untitled, Donald Roberts (United States, New Hampshire, Wolfeboro, born 1923) , 1962, Lithograph
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Untitled, Donald Roberts (United States, New Hampshire, Wolfeboro, born 1923) , 1962, Lithograph

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (40)
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Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: Comics Brew
'Comics Brew' presents a show of original comic artwork by T. Ott and Kalonji from Switzerland, Stassen from Belgium and Rabaté from France, with Karlien de Villiers, ND Mazin, Brendon Bell-Roberts and the Igubu Collective. The Comics Brew catalog...
California Museum of Photography: S-T-R-E-T-C-H-I-N-G: A Spiritual Journey
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Pump House Gallery: Boundaries: Jo Roberts
This post-modern approach of questioning the apparent absolutes of boundaries carries particular significance when applied to current global politics, and on a much more local level examines the way borough boundaries have a direct impact on ones ...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: Kevin Brand: 50+
The exhibition uses a repetition of an image that is never seen from the same perspective simultaneously: so although the work is a marked shift from his focussed „issue based‰ earlier concerns, the repetition alludes to his prior use of pixillati...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: It's Never too Late to be a Man: Works by Norman O'Flynn
Norman OFlynn has travelled extensively throughout Africa attending residencies and workshops in Zambia, Egypt, Zimbabwe and Botswana. He has recently returned to Cape Town after a three month residency in Switzerland. Never too late to be a...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: To a Promised Land: Marieke Kruger
Marieke Kruger's art making processes are lodged in a paradoxical and ambiguous interplay between the conscious and the sub-conscious where the interaction between images, media and materials creates a rich variety of multiple meanings through pla...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: Berco Wilsenac: In die sterre geskryf
The concept of the blind astronomer suggests a double irony where, although a measure of information is provided; he does not have access to the visual embodiment of the information. The sighted observor, on the other hand, does not have access to...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: New Works by Noria Mabasa
Ms. Mabasa runs an art school in Venda from where she instructs her students in the dying art of clay-pot and sculpture making. She started working in clay in 1974 and, motivated by a dream, two years later became the first Venda woman to work in ...
Sculpture Square Limited : Bush Profiles: A Solo Show by Julia Roberts
Roberts moved to Singapore in 1998. In February 2000, she participated in ‘An Affair to Remember’, a group show celebrating the work of thirteen of Australia’s finest young contemporary artists, which was held at the Australian High Co...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: About Face: Contemporary Portraiture and Painting
Celebrated South African artists Cameron Platter, Nigel Mullins, Norman O’Flynn, Paul du Toit, Sanell Aggenbach and Tanya Poole were invited to use the genre both as a form of self and societal reflection.   From the frivolous and potentiall...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: GALLERY MOVES TO NEW PREMISES AND OPENS WITH Between Meaning and Matter
Encompassing a cross section of experimental and traditional art practice, Between Meaning and Matter includes a pixilated mural by 2008 Mercedes-Benz South Africa Art Award winner, Kevin Brand; a two-metre (circum.) lazer-cut tondo based on inter-ne...
Monash University Museum of Art: People, Places + Ideas: Celebrating Four Decades of the Monash University Collection
Monash University began collecting art when it was founded in 1961. The Collection, which has always had a strong focus on contemporary art, has expanded over four decades to comprise over 1,200 works by more than 330 of Australia's most renow...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: 10 Years 100 Artists: Art in a Democratic South Africa
The new premises at 89 Bree Street (between Shortmarket and Hout Streets) was originally built in 1752. The space is elegant and spacious , with a touch of old world charm about it. The gallery will now be situated on two floors and a roof top gar...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: Picnic: A Summer Show - Curated by Andrew Lamprecht
Artists included in the exhibition are Usha Seejarim, Kathryn Smith, Doreen Southwood, Kevin Brand, Matthew Hindley, Ed Young, Christian Nerf, Sanell Aggenbach, Geoff Grundlingh, Zen Marie, Vuyisa Nyamende and Cameron Platter, Brett Murray, and Sv...
Mariners Gallery, St Ives Society of Artists: Hevelepter 2001 Second Annual Exhibition
An uncompromising but approachable sample of untourist art from artists who recognise the distinct cultural nativity of contemporary Cornwall. The universality of R.Davisons painting certainly shar...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: Matthew Hindley: Surrender
"Informed by media reportage, individual experience and a developing personal iconography of metaphorical characters, these scenarios are rendered as encoded fictions or metaphors of trauma, couched in a "pop style." "Central to both his two...
Geelong Gallery: Shearing the Rams Touring Regional Galleries
The painting will be shown as part of the National Gallery of Victorias Centenary of Federation celebrations. Dr Vaughan said the exhibit was a fantastic opportunity for people in regional Victoria to view the much-loved artwork without ha...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: Sanell Aggenbach: Fool's Gold
Exploration and heritage are the underlining concepts, while illusions, fallacies and forgeries are presented to confuse perceptions of reality. The painted works interpret the uncertainty and fear that captured the sailor’s imagination when embar...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: Doreen Southwood: The Swimmer
It is a space where oppression and depression which are continually swept under the carpet in favour of a more acceptable outward appearance. Doreen details the pathologies and symptoms that attend this denial. Symptom relieving drugs domestic cra...
Roberts Art Gallery, Santa Monica High School: Ione Citrin: Solo Exhibition
When I paint, I dip my brush in my soul... Being an Artist is a life force, not a career choice. Each piece represents a fragment of my lifes work. I present the world artistically as I see it, as I wish to see it, and occasionally as I once saw...
Beltway: NEW ON-LINE MAGAZINE CELEBRATES POETRY IN THE NATIONS CAPITOL
Beltway highlights the healthy diversity of poetry styles within the nations capitol. Each issue will present a selection of poems by four or five authors, ranging from well established, nationally-known poets to those who have yet to publish...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: Kevin Brand: An Exhibition of Paintings Entitled 4x4
He has always felt free to move from one medium or process to another and, as such, painting is not that radical a departure. Where his ‘Balm of Banal’ series saw him create a series of assemblages made from ‘everyday’ items such as eggboxes and b...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: Threads: Gina Waldman AND Lost and Found: Isolde Krams

ARTIST STATEMENT: GINA WALDMAN “The image of a tapestry is so domestic and in some ways banal, but so many interesting things happen on their surfaces. The front side of the tapestry is like a paint by number; perfect and seamless, whereas the ...
INSTITUTE OF MODERN ART: Odyssey
608 Ann Street (Cnr Gipps Streets), Fortitude Valley Queensland GALLERY HOURS Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, closed Sunday, Monday and public holidays POSTAL GPO Box 1897, Brisbane QLD 4001, AUSTRALIA TEL + 61 7 3252 5750, ...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: Pierre Crocquet: On Africa Time
Text is included to complement the images. It is in the form of quotes from the people photographed and descriptions of the context in which they were photographed. It also contains the interpretations and perceptions of the photographer. The imag...
Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum: Virtues, Vices, Vanities: Paintings by Jean Roberts Guequierre
The public is invited to the Remarks and Gallery Talk, a brief lecture by Nathan Guequierre followed by a gallery tour with the artist, on Wednesday, November 28 at 7 p.m. Nathan Guequierre, the artist‚s husband and an internationally publishe...
Pharmaka: Brave New World: Colin Roberts, Stas Orlovski, Margaret Nielsen, George Herms, Michael Rosenfeld, Anne Hars, Todd Gray and Seth Kauffman
Seeking to explore how different collisions in our present time are visualized and dealt with by artists, "Brave New World" has a tone of science fiction and surrealism using elements that are both foreign and recognizable. The works explore th...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: Cameron Platter: Life is Very Interesting
It features all the tried and tested themes of love and revenge, temptation and crookery, megalomania and obscene excess in the war between good and evil in contemporary South Africa. It promises to be an action-packed spectacle of crime and punis...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: Doreen Southwood: Nothing Really Matters
Doreen is an Afrikaans speaking white female in her late twenties. Her work deals largely with issues of obsession and mental illness, striving to find the perfect balance between fear and love, order and chaos. She questions identity while dealin...
hug - Gallery for International Photography: London-based Artists antoni+alison: Inaugural Exhibition for hug
Celebrated for their vivid ‘text piece’ T-shirts, such as Imagine the Best Best Thing Ever, I Can’t Relate to the 17th Century and Elvis is Lovely; their collections are now admired internationally. Regular fans of their work include Nicole Kidma...
Loop Gallery: TEN: Ten Paintings by Ten Artists Over Ten Weeks
Arthur continues, "Our aim was always to present a varied group of artists representing diverse styles, techniques and career stages, but to attract painters of this calibre has knocked me for six, or should I say 'Ten'." Promoting abstract ...
Art Gallery of New South Wales: Charles Conder: A Retrospective 1868-1909
Barry Pearce, Head Curator of Australian Art and Co-Curator of the Charles Conder Retrospective Frederick McCubbin, Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton and Charles Conder are considered to have laid the foundation of the great Heidelberg school of ...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: Giovanni Agresti Fiumara: Capetonians©
“Many people are anxious when they’re about to be photographed: not because they fear, as primitives do, being violated but because they fear the camera’s disapproval. People want the idealized image: a photograph of themselves looking their best....
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: Women: Bongi Bengu
By aligning myself with this line of thinking as my forebears, I am searching to define my own identity. I ask myself questions relating to womanís sense of power or powerlessness. The mural decorations can be viewed as openings or invitations t...
National Arts Club: CONTEMPORARY TURKISH ART - ORHAN TAYLAN: Recent paintings
In 1982, he was detained by military court for three years as a political prisoner, and was supported by Amnesty International. His paintings were exhibited in London, Amsterdam and Moscow within Turkish Highlights exhibitions between 1988 and 199...
Huntington Library, Art Collections, & Botanical Gardens: THE ART OF BLOOMSBURY
Works by Bell, Fry, and Grant will be complemented by those of their contemporaries, such as Henry Lamb, Walter Sickert, Dora Carrington and William Roberts, and by the great continental modernist painters they admired, notably Picasso, Derain, a...
Gallery111: Request for submissions
Collaborative efforts between poets, musicians and artists are supported. The opening date of our first exhibition is 6:00pm Saturday 1st April 2000. This group show will be a reflection of the ideals and aesthetics of the gallery. A...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: PRINT 07: Limited Addition Prints
The inaugural PRINT 07 is organised and hosted by the Bell-Roberts Gallery @ Lourensford, in association with UCT’s Michaelis School of Fine Art, Stellenbosch University Visual Arts Department and Rhodes University Fine Art Department. PRINT 07 wi...
hug - Gallery for International Photography: Mr and Mrs Antoni and Alison: An Exhibition of Photographs by Antoni and Alison
Their work has a British sense of humour with an appealing mischievous sensibility that doesn’t relate to fashion, but is based on their own exploration of ideas and experiences. “We’ve never played the game.  We sit outside of fashion...fashion h...
ArtSpace: DAMP: What we Want, What We'll Do for It
DAMP has been described as the funky squad, the angry mob, the art club, the cult, the choir, the cheersquad and the DAMP team. Their collaborative practice, including performances, exhibitions, memorabili...

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