Heysen made the monumental gum tree a hero of his nationalistic Federation-period pieces ... he had bought his first paints at age 14 and within two years had sold his first piece of art, “The Wet ...

Encircling this beautiful, archetypically Heysen-esque gum tree, the artist has placed introduced ... LeWitt’s famous maxim that: in conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important ...

The writer was more interested in stating the importance of Hans Heysen as “the incomparable painter of the Australian gum-tree” than in ... of all Australian art prizes, judged by a ...

This relationship is explored in Hans and Nora Heysen: Two Generations of Australian Art, at the National Gallery of Victoria. It's the latest in a succession of recent shows devoted to the ...

She took portraiture, and flowers. Despite her early successes and the fact that she came from art world establishment, Heysen’s work, along with the work of a swathe of Australia’s best ...

This weekend, the Art Gallery of South Australia will focus on Heysen’s beguiling portraits and still lifes in an exhibition of local female artists who travelled to Europe before World War II ...

Fancy the idea of taking a long walk and looking at art? Art that depicts the very landscape you're in? In South Australia the Heysen Trail goes from Cape Jervis on the coast up 1,200 km through ...