Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane

The Estate of­­ Ray Hughes

William Robinson began painting his farmyard scenes in the 1980s, after he had moved to rural Brisbane in the 1970s. Having had spent much time in the company of his farm animals Robinson came to uncover their individual humorous, yet whimsical nature in his paintings. Significant to most of his farmyard works and as exemplified in Farmyard are a lack of horizontal lines, a flat background and a sense of surrounding chaos honing in on the personality of the animal subject(s) and their chaotic farm life.

Private collection, Melbourne

Private collection, Sydney

Godfrey Miller was born in Wellington, New Zealand and later lived in Dunedin. Before WWI began, lessons with Alfred O’Keefe focused Miller’s interest in the arts. After being discharged from the army due to injury in his upper right arm during the Battle of Gallipoli, which gave him musculospiral nerve palsy and neurasthenia, he travelled to Melbourne and enrolled under William McInnes at the National Gallery school in 1918. In 1929 he moved to London and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and gained a certificate (1931) for sculpture.

Having photographed this young girl performing a handstand in 2017 on a beach of the red sea in Eilat, Israel, Zadok Ben-David found the inspiration for Figure 1599.

Zadok Ben-David is an internationally acclaimed London-based artist. Born in Yemen and raised in Israel, he studied at London’s St. Martin’s School of art, where he also taught from 1977-1982. In 1988 he was selected to exhibit as Israel’s representative at the Venice Biennale.

The collection of Ann Robin Banks;

thence by decent to a private collection, London

The artist Ann Robin Banks was a close friend of Cynthia Nolan and worked on the Eureka Stockade mural with Sidney Nolan. This mural was commissioned for the Reserve Bank of Australia in 1965 and is now housed at the Australian National University, Canberra.

The artist Sidney Nolan rented Ann Banks’ studio in Fulham and eventually purchased it when she moved to Scotland.