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Born England, arrived Australia1949, studied under Carington Smith, D Stoner E Brooker, further studies England 1962-66 study tour France 1963,64,68 and Germany 65 Teacher Tas Ed Depart 1970 including UTAS 1978-88. Exhibited various awards including 1976 Archibald Prize, AGNSW, Glover 2017

James Montgomery Cant studied art at Antonio Dattilo-Rubbo’s Saturday morning class, and later at East Sydney Technical College and Julian Ashton’s Sydney Art School. In 1934 he left for London where the modernist artist Roi de Maistre, who had been an early influence in Sydney, introduced him to forward-looking art, artists and galleries.
In 1935-39 Cant produced the most adventurous art of his career. He experimented with the late cubist style of Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso and the surrealism of Giorgio de Chirico and René Magritte. His most advanced works, however, were his `Found Objects’ and `Constructed Objects’, sculptures and assemblages that he exhibited in London in 1937 and 1938. These were the most avant-garde works of any Australian artist in the first half of the twentieth century. In 1937 Cant exhibited with de Chirico, Max Ernst and Paul Klee. He travelled to France and Spain and met many of the artists whom he admired including Braque, Picasso, Magritte and Joan Mirò.
Cant returned to Sydney in 1939 and next year held a one-man show at the Macquarie Galleries. Enlisting on 9 May 1941 in the Citizen Military Forces, he performed camouflage duties with the Royal Australian Engineers being discharged on 18 May 1944.
In later life he was to declare his religion as surrealist and helped to form the Studio of Realist Art in 1945. Employed by the Australian Museum as a display adviser, Cant also painted arid Australian landscapes and works influenced by Aboriginal art and he produced reconstructions of Oenpelli rock art. In 1949 the Cants accompanied a display of these paintings to London. Remaining there for five years. Back in Australia in 1955, the Cants settled permanently in Adelaide He died 1982. The Art Gallery of South Australia staged a retrospective exhibition of his art in 1984 and a joint exhibition of his art and that of Dora Chapman in 1995. His work is represented in the National Gallery of Australia and all mainland State galleries.

Robert Proctor Beauchamp (1819 – 1889), pastoralist and artist, settled in Rosevears after time spent in New Zealand, Victoria and Hobart Town. As well as conducting art lessons in Launceston, Beauchamp exhibited widely, showing works in Melbourne, Hobart, and Otago, New Zealand

The Nile River was in beautiful country south-east of Launceston, in Northern Tasmania settled by early landowners. This particular scene was highly regarded and the artist painted the scene a number of times.
The section of the South Esk River south of Evandale near the village of "Nile", the painting is an excellent representation of the river at that location which is known locally as "The Nile River".

Robert Beck (1942- ), grandson to Merric and Doris Boyd, nephew to David Boyd, the second son of Henry Hatton Beck and Lucy Beck (nee Boyd), started potting in the mid 1960s with his parents at Murrumbeena, incising his work 'R Beck' or "Beck' . When his parents went to England in 1966, he helped them to establish a pottery in Wandsworth Common for four years. He married Margot (1948- ) in 1970 and in 1971, they set up a pottery in Beaumaris, Melbourne, where his parents had returned to live. The two couples worked closely together over this period, making a range of decorated wares. In 1978 Robert and Margot moved to Cheltenham. As a couple, they painted or incised their work 'R + M Beck'. At the time The Australian Government purchased four of their dinner services which were displayed on a rotating basis in various diplomatic embassies overseas.

Born Melbourne and studied at RMIT, Walker came to Hobart 1947. Typical of the period he went overseas for further experience and studied under Henry Moore and in Italy, working in two Italian sculptural foundries between 1953 and 1970 before returning home and establishing his home and own foundry at Campania. He pioneered a unique method of mould heating for the lost wax process that enabled him to produce large scale sculptures very economically.
A selection of major public commissions since 1969 include
Westpac Fountain Sculpture 'Tidal Pools Sydney 1970, relocated to lower Sandy Bay 2013
Antipodean Voyage, French Memorial fountain, Huon Pine, Botanical Gardens Hobart, 1972
Journey to the Southlands Fountain Salamanca Square 1977
The Tank Stream Fountain, Circular Quay, Sydney 1981
Antarctic Tableau, Reserve Bank Macquarie Street, Hobart 1984
The Tasman Fountain, Salamanca Place Hobart 1988
Australian Coat of Arms, Dept Foreign Affairs Canberra 1996
Bernacchi Tribute Victoria Dock, Hobart 2002
Many of these works are classified under National Heritage Register. Living close to Hobart, Walker was an avid sketcher and painter of landscapes as well as maritime birds and coastlines.

Lecturer Painting since 1980, Canberra School of Art, Melbourne University
Janenne Eaton’s studies and fieldwork in archaeology have been influential in the direction her artwork has taken since the mid 1980’s. Her artistic explorations acknowledge how individuals and societies are shaped, through time, by historical events, economics, and experiences Through the use of historical markers, digital textual symbols and elements embedded in computer based imaging, her works explore how a new, virtual language. Her practice incorporates painting, photography, installation and video. Janenne's work is represented in numerous public and private collections including the National Gallery of Australia, The National Portrait Gallery, The National Gallery of Victoria, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Janet Holmes a Court, BHP Billiton, Lyons House Museum. London NY, Berlin

Timothy Cook, has received numerous awards including National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award 2002 Winner, Special Commendation 2004, 2005. His work has been exhibited in both solo and group exhibitions across Australia and international in London, Germany including Artbank international touring exhibition 2002-2006 Kiripuranji South Pacific, South East Asia, Europe, Africa, Middle East, Latin America.
The Kulama is performed in the late wet season (March-April) when a ring appears around the moon. Kulama is a traditional initiation for young men which coincides with the harvest of a certain wild yam species. Elders of both sexes sing and dance for three days welcoming the boys into adulthood. The boy is then renamed with his true man’s name.

The longer caption on the work refers to an image from a Surrealist journal of the early 20th Century which was based on a René Magritte image. Technically the diptych represented the high point of and, to some extent, marked the end of Arnold’s screen-printing career. It was initially shown in an exhibition in Launceston with sculptural and lighting elements.