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Theme: The Land Artist: Fred WILLIAMS Birth/Death: 1927–1982 Title: After the fire Credit Line: Purchased from Admission charges 1983. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. The fires that raged in the Dandenong Ranges in February and March 1968 shocked the landscape artist Fred Williams into a new perception of the environment. As soon as the fires abated Williams explored and recorded the altered landscape: 'There is a huge gum tree that is smoking like a factory chimney - spend the next few hours making sketches of this ... I use clay and charcoal from the ground and grind it into the paper proper ... The sonorous colours tonight after the fire were something indeed ... the fine area is slowly turning green - orange.' More details Click image to enlarge