The historic Curlew artists’ camp at Sirius Cove was the base for significant Australian painters such as Tom Roberts and Arthur Streeton, who helped foster a new ‘Australian style’ in the years leading to Federation. The exhibition features paintings from the period, as well as newly commissioned artworks by artists responding to the site, its artistic heritage and the paintings made there.

Abdul Abdullah, Khadim Ali, Jo Bertini, Sophie Cape, Fiona Lowry, John Olsen, Thea Anamara Perkins, Tom Roberts, Marikit Santiago, Arthur Streeton, Imants Tillers.

John Olsen, Rolling Sea, and that Streeton Painting, 2014, oil on canvas. Mosman Art Collection, donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by John Olsen AO OBE, 2015. Photographer: Jacquie Manning