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| Polixeni Papapetrou The Harvesters 2009 inkjet print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Polixeni Papapetrou The Caretaker 2009 inkjet print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Polixeni Papapetrou The Sand Traveller 2009 inkjet print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Polixeni Papapetrou The Watcher 2009 inkjet print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| René Lalique Vase with Bacchantes 1930 glass Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona |
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| René Lalique Davos Vase 1932 glass Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane |
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| René Lalique Biskra Vase 1932 glass Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane |
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| René Lalique Design for Necklace ca. 1901 gouache and ink on paper National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Dale Hickey Blue Studio 1982-83 mixed media on canvas National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Dale Hickey Dark Window with Pink Flask 1983 acrylic on paper National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Dale Hickey Untitled no. 5 1986 enamel and oil on canvas Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, Australia |
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| Dale Hickey Garage Doors 1988 mixed media on canvas National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Harold Cazneaux The Ermine Coat 1931 gelatin silver print Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide |
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| Harold Cazneaux The Apache 1924 gelatin silver print Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide |
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| Harold Cazneaux Phillida Cooper in Ballet Dress ca. 1932 gelatin silver print Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
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| Harold Cazneaux Anna Pavlova costumed for Don Quixote 1926 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
The Novelist
Encased in talent like a uniform,
The rank of every poet is well known;
They can amaze us like a thunderstorm,
Or die young, or live for years alone.
They can dash forward like hussars: but he
Must struggle out of his boyish gift and learn
Must struggle out of his boyish gift and learn
How to be plain and awkward, how to be
One after whom none think it worth to turn.
For, to achieve his lightest wish, he must
Become the whole of boredom, subject to
Vulgar complaints like love, among the Just
Be just, among the Filthy filthy too,
And in his own weak person, if he can,
Dully put up with all the wrongs of Man.
– W.H. Auden (1938)