Australia is world famous not only for its natural wonders and wide open spaces, its beaches, deserts, but also for the all forms of art: music, painting, sculpture, cinema and theatre.

      Australian singers, bands such as AC/DC, The Angels, The Easy Beats, Sia, Tones & I, have produced some of the most memorable tunes of all time; from rock to punk, from pop to grunge, this singers will forever be a part of Australia’s rich cultural tapestry for their incredible chart-topping hits and award-winning albums.

     With more than seven million square kilometres of sparkling terrain to explore, Australia supplies no shortage of inspiration for artists, whether they are painters or sculptors: Sidney Nolan, Margaret Preston, Fiona Hall, Bert Flugelman, Tom Roberts. With their performing abstract experiments with the colours of the landscape or minimalism and optical effect, there are several artists who put the Australian art scene on the map.

    However, there are amazingly talented people in cinema also, Australia is the birthplace of some of the biggest stars to have hit the big screen, such as Margot Robbie, Chris and Liam Hemsworth, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman.  

Summary

    These talented actors have performed in many blockbuster movies and have become in-demand as they have established themselves in the movie industry. 

     Theatre in Australia today includes a diverse range of performances of different scale and contexts. Notable theatrical institutions include the Sydney Opera House, and the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney.

   Commercial theatres like the Lyric, Capitol and Theatre Royal in Sydney and the Regent, Her Majesty's and Comedy in Melbourne, and other major venues in these and other cities, host Australian productions of popular musicals and other large-scale events. Some professional companies focus on particular genres like classical theatre (Bell Shakespeare), theatre for young people (Windmill, Patch), music theatre (Harvest Rain) or circus and physical theatre  Circus Oz)

   Individuals who have contributed to theatre in Australia and internationally include Anthony Warlow, Andrew Tighe, Sir Robert Helpmann, Dame Joan Sutherland, Barry Humphries, David Williamson.

Music

  AC/DC are an Australian rock band formed in Sydney in 1973 by Scottish-born brothers Malcolm and Angus Young. Their music has been variously described as hard rock, blues rock, and heavy metal. Highway to Hell (1979) is arguably their masterpiece and the work for which the band achieved legendary status. In the midst of their growing worldwide success, Bon Scott, AC/DC’s lead vocalist, died and was subsequently replaced with English-born Brian Johnson. 

   Johnson helped them regain commercial success and a place in the annals of rock music. Recently, due to vocal problems, Johnson has stepped away from touring with the band, with Axl Rose, the frontman for Guns N’ Roses, stepping in as AC/DC’s new lead vocalist. AC/DC is arguably the most popular band from Australia and one of the most popular rock bands in the world.

AC/DC

  Toni Elizabeth Watson, known professionally as Tones and I is an Australian singer and songwriter. Her second single, "Dance Monkey", was released in May 2019 and reached number one in over 30 countries. In November of that year, she broke the record for the most weeks at number one on the ARIA Singles Chart by any artist with 16 weeks.

Toni Watson grew up in Mount Martha on the Mornington Peninsula to the south of Melbourne, in the Australian state of Victoria.

The APRA Awards are held in Australia and New Zealand by the Australasian Performing Right Association to recognize songwriting skills, sales and airplay performance by its members annually. Tones and I have won two awards from four nominations.

In 2020, Tones & I evaluated as the most famous Australian singer.

Tones & I 

    Painting

     Nolan (1917-1992) grew up in rough-and-tumble Depression-era Melbourne and emerged as one of Australia’s most prolific and celebrated 20th-century artists. Nolan’s vibrant Modernist paintings focused on uniquely Australian stories from the bush – his depictions of Ned Kelly and his gang of bushrangers cemented both Kelly’s standing in Australian folklore and Nolan’s lofty status in the national art scene.

Sir Sidney Robert Nolan

The Camp, 1946

     Once described as ‘the natural enemy of the dull’, Margaret Preston (1875-1963) was an Australian painter and printmaker who is regarded as one of Australia's leading modernists of the early 20th century. Born in Adelaide and trained in Munich, Paris and London during the era of European Modernism and French Post-Impressionism,  Preston was as renowned for her character as her progressive art - her vibrant decorative painting and prints of distinctively Australian subjects

Margaret Preston

 (flowers, birds, animals and landscapes) have delighted the Australian public since they were first exhibited in the early 1920s.

Australian 

Coral Flowers

Sculpture

Transforming regular materials into pieces of art, Hall (1953-) uses her work to explore the relationship between nature and culture – literature and ecology are consistent themes. Hall’s early focus on painting and photography expanded into sculpture, installation, moving image and even garden design in the 1990s, boasting residencies at all of Australia’s major galleries and representing the country at the 2015 Venice Biennale.

Fiona Hall

Widewalls

Wrong Way Time

Herbert 'Bert' Flugelman (1923 – 26 February 2013) was a prominent Australian visual artist who had many of his works publicly displayed. He is known for his stainless steel geometric sculptures. The work in this exhibition was abstract, technically immaculate, usually severely geometric, and often modular. It rejected figuration and expressionism. Much of the work dealt in abstract terms with issues like ambiguity, paradox, and optical effect.  Flugelman promptly decided to explore sculptural form that was precise and minimalist, his sculptures' mirroring-surfaces reflected the changing moods of the sky, the blurred shimmering of nearby wind-ruffled foliage, and the movements and colour of passing people. 

Bert Flugelman

Cones