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Season 2021
Coonalpyn is a small and declining South Australian town. In a bid to revitalize the community locals turned to an outsider to make an enormous artwork on their grain silos. Landline's Prue Adams reported in 2017.
A few times a year a group of landscape painters go bush to work "plein air", or in the open air. They are following in the footsteps of some of the nation's famous artists. Landline's Sean Murphy filed this report in 2013.
An acclaimed Australian landscape painter is capturing life as it returns to a part of New South Wales hit hard by Australia's 2020 Black Summer. Sean Murphy joined artist Warwick Fuller as he searched for inspiration.
John Glover was a colonial artist called the father of Australian landscape painting. His historic Tasmanian home and property has been restored, while remaining a wool business. Landline's Margot Ellis reported in 2019
The Mallee is a vast, flat region in north-west Victoria. For decades it has seen population decline, but it's now experiencing revival and regeneration. This report by Landline's Tim Lee.
He was once a struggling artist battling to feed his family. Now Dubbo-based Brett "Mon" Garling is one of Australia's most in-demand sculptors. Landline's Sean Murphy reports.
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