The Artists’ Camps: Plein Air Painting in Melbourne 1885-1898
Dates:
6 June – 11 July 1984
Artists:
Louis Abrahams, A.M.E. Bale, Arthur Merric Boyd, Abraham Louis Buvelot, Thomas Clark, Charles Conder, David Davies, Emanuel Phillips Fox, Ina Gregory, Stewart Handasyde, Tom Humphrey, John Llewelyn Jones, Percy Lindsay, Frederick McCubbin, John Mather, John Ford Paterson, Tom Roberts, Clara Southern, Arthur Streeton, Jane Sutherland, Tudor St George Tucker, Amy May Vale, Walter Withers, Hal Waugh
Curator:
Helen Topliss
Location:
Exhibition Gallery
Monash University, Clayton Campus
About the exhibition
This exhibition and accompanying publication documented, in chronological sequence, the network of plein air sites and temporary ‘camps’ set up by artists at the suburban edges of Melbourne in the late nineteenth century. It brought together works from the celebrated Heidelberg School with lesser-known artists such as Jane Sutherland and Clara Southern. Working at picturesque bush and coastal locations at Box Hill, Mentone, Eaglemont, Brighton, and beyond (reached by the newly extended railways) these artists expressed something of the general attitude towards the landscape at the time. In addition to the paintings, site maps, photographs and archival research material completed the exhibition.
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Image: Charles Conder, A Winter Sunday at Heidelberg with Tom Roberts and Arthur Streeton 1889, oil on board, 13.9 x 24 cm. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Gifted by Mr and Mrs Fred Williams and family, 1979