Brett Whiteley was born in Sydney in 1939. One of the most celebrated and charismatic figures in Australian art history, he burst onto the international scene in the early 1960s and never left it, producing a body of work of extraordinary energy and sensual richness across painting, drawing, printmaking, and sculpture. His art drew on a wide range of influences — from the European figurative tradition to Japanese calligraphy, from the Sydney Harbour he loved obsessively to the darker territories of addiction and desire — and synthesised them into a style that was instantly and unmistakably his own.

His prints Lipstick and Back 1 and Back 2 were produced in collaboration with Fred Genis at his Kenthurst studio on the outskirts of Sydney — placing them within the early Australian period of Fred's printmaking career, from 1979 onward. The works reflect Whiteley's characteristic preoccupation with the female form — sensuous, fluid, and rendered with the same confident, searching line that animates his finest drawings.

Brett Whiteley died in Thirroul, New South Wales in 1992. His work is held in every major Australian public collection and he remains one of the most beloved artists this country has produced. see more

Tim Storrier was born in Sydney in 1949. One of Australia's most celebrated and distinctive painters, he has spent five decades developing a visual world entirely his own — spare, poetic, and suffused with the particular quality of light and silence that characterises the Australian interior. A member of the legendary outback journeys undertaken with Fred Genis, John Olsen, and Theo Kuijpers, Storrier's relationship with the Australian landscape is not that of an observer but of someone who has lived within it, slept under its skies, and carried its images back to the studio with the intimacy of personal experience.

Storrier studied at the National Art School in Sydney and was awarded the Archibald Prize in 2012. His signature imagery — burning objects, saddles, bivouacs, hats, and the detritus of the traveller — recurs across his paintings and prints as a personal iconography of journey, time, and the impermanence of human presence in a vast and indifferent landscape. There is always fire, always distance, always the sense of a camp made and abandoned.

His collaboration with Fred Genis was sustained and deeply felt, spanning from the early 1980s through to the Byron Bay years. The saddle series alone — across multiple states, papers, and years — speaks to an artist returning again and again to a single object until it yields everything it contains. Burning Horse, Midnight Embers, Bowl of Stars, and He Always Loved Caruso are among the most poetic works in the entire Australian collection.

Tim Storrier continues to live and work in Australia. His work is held in every major Australian public collection. see more