Hal Missingham Shop Kids drove the long lonely road

drove the long lonely road from Alice Springs to the settlement at Papunya in the Northern Territory

demystify the art world

artists from Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun to Angelica Kauffman express both passion for their craft and the idea of femininity

academics and curators including: Fiona Nicoll

Hal Missingham Shop Kids drove the long lonely roadArtist, teacher, graphic designer, photographer, Hal Missingham was also Director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales for twenty six years from 1945 to 1971. It was an important period in Australian art when artists such as Russell Drysdale, Sidney Nolan, Ian Fairweather, John Olsen and Brett Whiteley created some of the most memorable Australian paintings of the twentieth century. And yet the state art galleries were in disarray with minimal staff