Sir William (Bill) Dobell was a renowned Australian portrait and landscape artist of the 20th century. Dobell won the Archibald Prize, Australia's premier award for portrait artists on three occasions. The Dobell Prize is named in his honour.
The Dobell Drawing Prize is a biennial drawing prize and exhibition, held by the National Art School in association with the Sir William Dobell Art Foundation.The prize is an open call to all artists and aims to explore the enduring importance of drawing and the breadth and dynamism of contemporary approaches to drawing.
Godwin Bradbeer is a New Zealand-born artist now living and working in Australia whose work has evolved from his photo-media to pure drawing.
Virginia Grayson, also known as Ginny Grayson, is a New Zealand-born Australian artist, and winner of the Dobell Prize for Drawing.
Sir David Plumley Derham was an Australian jurist and university administrator. He was an expert in Australian constitutional law. In 1963, he became the Foundation Dean of Monash University Law School, which is now called the David Derham School of Law in his honour.
Mary Tonkin is an Australian artist, who in 2002 won the Dobell Prize, the highest prize for drawing in Australia. She was awarded her prize for her work Rocky Outcrop, Werribee Gorge 2000.
Brian Nelson is a professor emeritus of French Studies at Monash University, Melbourne and editor of the Australian Journal of French Studies.
Marilyn Lee Lake, is an Australian historian known for her work on the effects of the military and war on Australian civil society, the political history of Australian women and Australian racism including the White Australia Policy and the movement for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander human rights. She was awarded a Personal Chair in History at La Trobe University in 1994. She has been elected a Fellow, Australian Academy of the Humanities and a Fellow, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.
Peter Sharp is an Australian artist who works predominantly in drawing.
Vladimir Meškėnas is an Australian expressionist painter and portraitist in oil and pastel, who has been a frequent Archibald Prize finalist.
Michael Kmit was a Ukrainian painter who spent twenty-five years in Australia. He is notable for introducing a neo-Byzantine style of painting to Australia, and winning a number of major Australian art prizes including the Blake Prize (1952) and the Sulman Prize. In 1969 the Australian artist and art critic James Gleeson described Kmit as "one of the most sumptuous colourists of our time".
John Forrester-Clack is an Australian artist who won the 2009 Capital Chemist Art Prize and was a finalist in the 2011 and 2012 Dobell Prize.
Jan Senbergs is an Australian artist and printmaker of Latvian origin.
Tony Ameneiro is an Australian contemporary visual artist whose work focuses around his drawing and printmaking practice.
Angela Brennan is an Australian painter.
Aida Tomescu is an Australian contemporary artist, who is known for her abstract paintings, drawings and prints. Tomescu is the winner of Dobell Prize for Drawing, the Wynne Prize for Landscape and the Sir John Sulman Prize by the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Born October 1955 Bucharest / Arrives Australia 1980.
Christopher Orchard is a South Australian artist and arts educator who began as a sculptor but subsequently specialised in drawing. His character, the Bald Man, is a recurrent motif. Orchard is Associate Professor at Adelaide Central School of Art and was the subject of the 2017 SALA Festival monograph, Christopher Orchard: The Uncertainty of the Poet. He is also the subject of the 2013 short documentary film Everyperson, by Jasper Button and Patrick Zoerner.
Dagmar Evelyn Cyrulla is an Australian contemporary artist. Her work is about relationships, especially those from a woman’s perspective. In 2017, her painting, 'I Am' was 'Highly Commended' in the Doug Moran portrait prize. In 2017 her work 'The phone call IV' won the Manning regional gallery's "Naked and Nude" art prize.
Storm Approaching Wangi is a 1948 painting by Australian artist Sir William Dobell. The painting depicts a storm at Wangi Wangi in the Hunter region of New South Wales.
Dobell's successful Wynne landscape entry is more conventional, although still typical Dobell in feeling. Two men and a woman are in the foreground at the edge of a lake drawing a boat to the shore. The menace of an approaching storm is typified by a stark black tree nearby, a threatening sky and a deserted background.
Dobell House is a heritage-listed former residence and now house museum at 47 Dobell Drive, Wangi Wangi, City of Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia. It was built from 1925 to 1970 by Robert Dobell, the father of noted Australian artist, William Dobell. The house is also known as Allawah and was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 3 February 2017.
