Tales of the Unexpected
Aspects of contemporary Australian art
Introduction | Foreword | Essay | Works | Gallery
Rosemary Laing | Anne Wallace | Lyndell Brown and Charles Green | Kate Beynon | Sally Smart | Robert Boynes
Rosemary Laing Flight research
![Plate 9 Zerfallender Kampfgraben [Collapsed trenches]](images/MED/134462.jpg)
click to enlarge Rosemary Laing flight research #6 1999
Type C photograph,
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Anne Wallace Mirrors of ambiguity
![Plate 13 Mahlzeit in der Sappe (Lorettohohe) [Mealtime in the trenches - The Loretto Hills]](images/MED/141966.jpg)
Anne Wallace She Is 2001
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
© Anne Wallace
Lyndell Brown and Charles Green Illusory worlds
Lyndell Brown and Charles Green
The nervous system 1995
oil on linen
private collection
Kate Beynon Tall tales and true
![Plate 32 Matrosen in Antwerpen [Sailors in Antwerp]](images/MED/120553.jpg)
Kate Beynon
Python 2000
Type C photographic digital print
courtesy Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
![Plate 33 Lens wird mit Bomben belegt [Lens being bombed]](images/MED/120540.jpg)
Sally Smart
BedBugs (Femmage) 2001
synthetic polymer paint on canvas with collage elements
courtesy of the artist
Robert Boynes Fictional documentaries
![Plate 42 Toter (St. Clement) [Dead man - St Clement]](images/MED/141442.jpg)
Robert Boynes
Rendez-vous 2000
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra