Just digitised: High rise towers
The painting ‘High rise towers’ looks at the lockdown imposed on the residents of the Flemington commission units in 2020.
Painting
Vali Myers: Australian artist
Vali Myers (1930-2003) was known as a free-thinking artist and dancer who lived a unique bohemian life that was true to herself. Her archive held by the Library spans her life overseas and her return to Australia.
Journey through the collection: Rick Amor
Collection spotlights, Painting:
These works by Rick Amor depict a quiet Port Phillip Bay, where constructions stand among nature, bearing the stains of passing time.
Extract from ‘True portraiture: David Roberts’ The Holy Land and Francis Frith’s Photographic prints of Egyptian antiquities’
Our stories, Painting, Photography:
Europe went crazy for all things Egyptian in the early 19th century, which helps explain why the Library’s collection includes rare works by two famous Egyptologists: painter David Roberts and photographer Francis Frith.
Max Meldrum, the Meldrumites and Montsalvat
Painting, Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:
One of Australia’s most famous artists of the time, Max Meldrum even had followers with their own nickname, the Meldrumites. But with his vocal opinions he was not without detractors and controversy. Read about his influence on the artists that formed Montsalvat.
New books with an American accent in Arts
New books, Painting, Photography, Rare Books & Arts:
An iconic American family of artists, a book of photographs capturing a lost place and time, an artist we should know better, and a lovely voice from Hollywood’s past.
New books: revolutions in England, Scotland at war and Mr Nolan transforms the Australian landscape
Painting, Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:
A clutch of new books explore Turner’s “born again” vision, the back-to-the-future philosophy of William Morris, Scotland’s artists at war, and the remarkable life and art of Sidney Nolan (shown here in a photograph by Albert Tucker, c.1940s).
From Russia with love: treasures from the Hermitage
Decorative arts, Painting, Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:
Melbourne is currently experiencing a little bit of Imperial Russia with the exhibition, Masterpieces From the Hermitage: the Legacy of Catherine the Great, now showing at the National Gallery of Victoria. Here at the State Library of Victoria you can bury yourself in these treasures all year round.
The Battle of Waterloo and its 200 year old legacy
Film, Painting, Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:
The Battle of Waterloo continues to fascinate, even 200 years after those ferocious days
New in the visual arts: on the shelf and online
New books, Painting, Photography, Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:
The visual arts come in all shapes and sizes
