Looking closely
How to spend time with a painting: brushwork, colour, composition, labels and the habits that make looking stick.
Walk through
Rooms
The notes are hung in seven rooms. Start with whichever matches the question in your head.
Gallery-going
Commercial and public galleries, openings, prizes and room sheets, and how to walk into any of them with confidence.
First works
Buying a first original work: budgets, editions, certificates, condition and the questions to ask before you pay.
Framing and care
Framing, hanging, light and the everyday care that keeps canvases and works on paper in good shape.
Australian painting
Painters, movements and prizes in Australian art, from the Heidelberg School to the present, told plainly.
Books and learning
Art books, exhibition catalogues and courses for anyone who wants to read and learn more about art.
Living with art
Art in real homes and real lives: small rooms, children, gifts, road trips and everything else around the walls.