Australian Art - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

Films

  • Age of Consent (1969) dir. Michael Powell (director).
  • Lust and Revenge (1996) dir. Paul Cox.
  • Sirens (1994) dir. John Duigan.

Plays

  • Up For Grabs (2000) by David Williamson.

Australian novels about artists

  • Harland's Half Acre (1984) David Malouf.
  • The Vivisector (1970) Patrick White.
  • The Sitters (1995) Alex Miller.
  • Miles Walker, You're Dead (1999) Linda Jaivin.
  • Prochownik’s Dream (2005) Alex Miller. Allen & Unwin

Novels with an artist as a main character

  • The Spare Room (2008) Helen Garner
  • Time Enough Later (1945) Kylie Tennant.
  • Riders in the Chariot (1961) Patrick White.
  • Prelude to Christopher (1934) Eleanor Dark.

Poetry

  • Death of a Painter, Georgio Morandi, The Wasps (to Edwin Tanner) Gwen Harwood

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