Learn more about Margaret Preston’s ideas on art and Australia – as captured in her own words.

‘I’m personally aiming at the simplification of all forms and to express the monumental form and dry colour of Australian landscapes … I wish to continue the basic work of the Aborigines … What I am after in my work is to give the national, spiritual and characteristic features of this country’.

(‘Australian Artists speak’, radio 2FC 1945)

Image: Margaret Preston in her garden Berowra 1937. Photograph by FJ Halmarick, Fairfaxphotos