Art that had been produced for thousands of years in a ceremonial context, on the body and the ground, would now be seen by the outside world. By the 1980s Australian museums began to take ...

The collection includes over 600 images of a land and its flora and fauna, some of which were completely new to ... the First Fleet images provide an invaluable historical record of life in eastern ...

Ferdinand Bauer's platypus watercolour, based on sketches he made while on the HMS Investigator voyage in the early 1800s, was among the first attempts by a European artist to record Australian flora ...

Her work, which includes batik and acrylic painting, often depicts flora, fauna, dreamtime figures ... the Queensland Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the National Gallery of Australia ...

A number of animals, plants and an entire ecosystem were added to Australia's extinction watch list in 2024. We look at the ...

Australia has one of the world's highest rates of extinctions with about 100 species of flora and fauna lost since European colonisation. There were 42 new additions to the national list of ...