Image: Karen O’Connor

Image: Charles Conder Departure of the Orient – Circular Quay 1888 (detail)

Thomas Keneally (image courtesy of Random House)

Richard Gill (photo: Jeff Busby)

Image: Margaret Preston Gum blossoms (1928) woodcut © Margaret Rose Preston Estate

Richard Johnson & Anne Flanagan

Image: Wayne Tunnicliffe, head of Australian art

Image: Monique Dykstra and Daniel Cordeaux, Open Stage Productions

Anne Flanagan

Image: Arthur Murch The idle hour 1933 © AGNSW

Image: The Etcetera Duo in front of Ugo Rondinone clockwork for oracles 2011 (detail) © Ugo Rondinone

Wendy Whiteley

Image: Sidney Nolan First-class marksman 1946 Purchased with funds provided by the Gleeson O’Keefe Foundation 2010 © The Trustees of the Sidney Nolan Trust

Image: Crystal Hegedis as Gert by Sea, in front of Charles Meere Australian beach pattern 1940 © Charles Meere Estate

Image: Charles Conder Departure of the Orient – Circular Quay 1888 (detail)

Image: Grace Cossington Smith The curve of the bridge 1928–29 Purchased with funds provided by the Art Gallery Society of New South Wales and James Fairfax AO 1991 © Estate of Grace Cossington Smith; James Angus Bugatti Type 35 2006 Purchased with funds provided by Andrew Cameron, the Contemporary Collection Benefactors’ and the Rudy Komon Memorial Fund 2006 © James Angus, Courtesy Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery

Harold Cazneaux Sydney Bridge c1934 Gift of the Cazneaux family 1975

Image: Elioth Gruner Spring frost 1919 Gift of F G White 1939

Image: Night cries, Dir: Tracey Moffatt

Image: Crystal Hegedis as Gert by Sea, in front of Charles Meere Australian beach pattern 1940 © Charles Meere Estate

Image: Robert Klippel No 714 Wooden prototype for Adelaide Plaza bronze 1988 © Robert Klippel Estate

Image: Monique Dykstra and Daniel Cordeaux, Open Stage Productions

Image: Julia Cotton and Russell Garbutt as the Etcetera Duo

Image: Newsfront

Sydney Long By tranquil waters 1894 © Estate of Sydney Long. Courtesy Ophthalmic Research Institute of Australia

Image: Catherine Speck, courtesy The Courier

Image: Martha Marlow

Image: James Valentine

Image: Nora Heysen Self portrait 1932 (detail) Gift of Howard Hinton 1932 © Lou Klepac