Arthur Boyd 'The Brown Room' 1943 Painting, Oil on Cotton Gauze on cardboard reproduced with the permission of the Bundanon Trust

Frank Hurley 'Native Child and Puppy' 1914 Photograph, Carbon Photograph

Bruce Latimer 'Gardens full of Dogs' 1973 Print, Stencil copyright Bruce Latimer

© Lin Onus1989 'Birth Puppy' Sculpture, Fibreglass Reproduced by permission of Viscopy Ltd, Sydney 1999

William Wegman 'No Title (Three Legged Dog): From a Portfolio Entitled "Artists and Photographs"' (c. 1975) Photograph, Polaroid Photograph

William Strutt 'Cultivating an Acquaintance' 1889 Painting, Oil on Canvas

In Bruce Latimer's prints, dogs are benign entities or playful rogues that animate the backyard. Lin Onus' lifesize dingoes engage in dog's business—sniffing smells and playing with puppies. Painted in ochre colours, they are metaphors for Aboriginal Australia.

William Wegman's dog, a Weimaraner, is his muse, providing the continual inspiration for his photographs. Frank Hurley's 1915 sepia photograph captures the child and puppy engrossed in a timeless and poignant moment.

The little Jack Russell in William Strutt's delightful set of paintings is intent on making a crayfish his playmate. Human warnings would be of no use to him. For a dog, the way to learn about the world is by experiencing it, and experience it he does, with a nip on the paw.

Barbara Hanrahan The dog, the cat 1962 linocut, printed in black ink, from two blocks, hand-coloured

Frank Hurley 'We Took a Dog Team down to the Wreck and Salvaged a Few Essentials' 1915 Photograph, Gelatin Silver Photograph

Paul Juraszek Untitled 1987 Sculpture, stained wood

William Strutt 'A Warm Response' 1889 Painting, Oil on Canvas