Attachment Styles brings together works from the 19th to 21st century to explore questions, showing how artists have long grappled with the emotional complexity of human relationships between individuals, communities and the environments they inhabit.
Highlights on display include Frederick McCubbin's Down on his luck and Moyes Bay, Beaumaris, Hans Heysen's Droving into the light, Arthur Streeton's The hillside, John Nash's The Bathers, Lucian Freud's Naked Man With Rat and John Longstaff's Breaking the news.
The exhibition also includes works by Arthur Boyd, Russell Drysdale, John Russell and Sydney Long, and more recent and contemporary acquisitions from local artists Tom Freeman, Mary Moore, and a vibrant series of classic rock and pop star portraits by Naarm/Melbourne-based artist Colleen Ahern.
Highlights on display include Frederick McCubbin's Down on his luck and Moyes Bay, Beaumaris, Hans Heysen's Droving into the light, Arthur Streeton's The hillside, John Nash's The Bathers, Lucian Freud's Naked Man With Rat and John Longstaff's Breaking the news.
The exhibition also includes works by Arthur Boyd, Russell Drysdale, John Russell and Sydney Long, and more recent and contemporary acquisitions from local artists Tom Freeman, Mary Moore, and a vibrant series of classic rock and pop star portraits by Naarm/Melbourne-based artist Colleen Ahern.